To call writer/director (and actor) Anthony Hayes’  Gold   minimal is a bit of a stretch. Minimal is an overstatement. There are seven actin...

The near-ish future of  Night Raiders , writer/director Danis Goulet’s debut feature, sets up a dystopian society where an oppressive govern...

A corrupt dystopian future, a world ravaged by a man-made virus, a popular game show where contestants fight to the death in an effort to cu...

An alternate 1995 where a mysterious disease kills off all the adults and warring gangs of kids—the poor kids from the East Side of Pot...

The Trost Brothers’ 2011 film The FP is a strange, singular artifact. The saga of a post-apocalyptic future where warring gangs settle...

If you ask me, and no one did, the Trost Brothers’ 2011 dystopian gang dance off, The FP , doesn’t get nearly the love it should. Thi...

Movies franchises based on a series of young adult novels have, let’s just call it a checkered past. For every Harry Potter and Hung...

Lots of people go through a dystopian fiction streak. Mine was in junior high/early high school. (And, to be honest, continues to thi...

The first season of Hulu’s The Handmaid’sTale was not only grim and timely and captured the attention of audiences and end-of-year a...

If you haven’t watched the Trost Brothers’ The FP , do yourself a favor, drop whatever you’re doing, and rectify that oversight. It’s...

Grim, bleak, desolate. These are just a few accurate words to describe It Comes at Night , the moody new slow-burn horror joint from ...

I cancelled my Hulu subscription recently. There’s great stuff available, but between other services and an increasing lack of free t...

Hulu’s upcoming adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s speculative fiction classic, The Handmaid’s Tale , couldn’t be timed any better. Unle...

Earlier this year I reread Margaret Atwood’s speculative fiction masterwork The Handmaid’s Tale . It had been a while, but I was stru...

As a franchise, The Purge is steeped in the low-budget exploitation fare of previous generations. The first film was a rote home inv...

Cards on the table: I adore J.G. Ballard’s 1975 novel High-Rise . Normally it takes quite a bit to get me excited about an adaptation, ...

There’s a definite hierarchy in the world of dystopian young adult movie adaptations. The Hunger Games obviously ruled the roost for f...

From the early responses at fall film festivals like Toronto and Fantastic Fest last year, it’s abundantly clear that Ben Wheatley ’s H...

Ben Wheatley’s ( Kill List , Sightseers ) adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s dystopian classic High-Rise got mixed reviews after it debuted ...

As the title implies, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay—Part 2 is not a movie that tells a complete story. While last year’s Mockingjay—Par...