Nina Munteanu
‘Extraction 2’ Has Wrapped Filming After 5 Months of Snowy Sets
Actor and comedian Jim Carrey says that the fastest he ever said yes to a role was 1998’s The Truman Show, in which he played mild-mannered insurance salesman Truman Burbank. The dramatic comedy tells the story of a man whose day-to-day life is secretly fabricated for a TV audience. Everything from Truman’s wife to his friends to the neighborhood he lives in is part...
The Fifteenth International Writers’ and Artists’ Festival / Le XVe Festival International des écrivains et artistes
On Friday, June 9th, I drove with friend, songwriter and poet Honey Novick, to the 15th International Writers’ and Artists’ Festival in Val-David, Quebec...
Incorporated: Or How I Lost My Soul to Climate Change by Nina Munteanu (Canada)
Incorporated is a science fiction thriller that offers a chilling glimpse of a post-climate change dystopia. Created by David and Alex Pastor and produced...
Living With Scarcity & Uncertainty: The Merits of 3% (Brazil)—Nina Munteanu (Canada)
Candidates have three minutes to make nine cubes out of a pile of blocks in the centre. Those who complete the puzzle in time...
The Expanse: No Game (of Thrones), just a Damned Good Story–Nina Munteanu (Canada)
The Expanse is a stylish and intelligent science fiction (SF) TV series (on Syfy Channel) set 200 years in the future when humanity has...
Evolution, Digital Immortality, and Freenet – Nina Munteanu (Canada)
Canadian author Steve Stanton’s fourth science fiction book Freenet explores humanity in the far future after we have created the “Macpherson Doorway” through folded...
Review of Advantageous Motion Picture by Nina Munteanu
“There are women with voices and brains and power and intelligence that have been waiting for this moment.”—Director Jennifer Phang Advantageous is a low budget...
2015: Year of the Sheep (Ram)
Starting February 19th 2015, we are entering the Year of the Sheep (Ram) on the Chinese calendar. More specifically it is the Yin (female)...
Interstellar: Is Love the God Particle?
Critical reception for Christopher Nolan's science fiction blockbuster movie Interstellar was widely mixed. Reviews ranged from being dazzled and awestruck to thinking it utterly...
Snowpiercer and the Machine of Life
What’s left of humanity—after we broke the world—is crammed in a speeding train that circles a frozen Earth … forever.Bong Joon-Ho’s motion picture Snowpiercer...
The Edge of Tomorrow: Live, Die, Repeat…
She’s called The Angel of Verdun. You also see another name scrawled in bright red over a London bus: Full Metal Bitch. When we...
Can Environmental SF Help Save Our Planet ? – Nina Munteanu (Canada)
That is the question David Holmes at Monash University asks in his February 20th 2014 article in the Australian ezine The Conversation. There is...
Celebrating 2014—The Year of the Horse
January 31st of 2014 begins the Year of the Wood Horse in the Chinese calendar as part of the sexagenary cycle of sixty 2-character...