10 Cloverfield Lane is the follow-up or companion piece to Cloverfield. It came to theaters earlier in the year and went to DVD. It may or may not be an apocalyptic world in this science fiction thriller. It leaves what is actually happening to the world uncertain for most of the movie. Young adult Michelle…

Earlier this year, desperate survivors ’ thriller The 5th Wave came to theaters and then DVD. In The 5th Wave, getting through a plagued world is a matter of slender hope. The situation is tough. Plagues sweep through America because of an alien force somewhere in the atmosphere. The alien force is causing power outages, earthquakes,…

The Matrix (1999, USA) offered alternative universe/futuristic science fiction, but bring it down to earth. Movies naturally point to something about our world, even in the most obscure movies. In The Matrix, the ideas about our world may be, as I understand The Matrix, is to free yourself from the authoritarian controls of the world.…

In The Sea of Trees (2016, USA), Arthur Brennan (Matthew McConaughey) goes to a Japanese forest to think about the unthinkable—death and dying, at his own hand. Before he does, he meets a Japanese man who is wandering in the forest aimlessly. Arthur tries to save the man. Both form a connection despite their lost…

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