Image is from the film 'Melancholia' (2011). In front of a pink, cloudy sky that is lined with trees, a young woman holds her hands up. Lightning is erupting from her fingertips.

‘Melancholia’ (2011) and How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Planet

By: Jennifer Maxwell
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How Lars Von Trier portrays mental illness as a superpower in Melancholia.

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‘Room 237’ (2012) and our Never-Ending Obsession With Stanley Kubrick

By: Robert Salusbury
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Have you ever sat down to watch Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining and wondered about its links to the 1968 moon landing?

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The Machines Will Save Us: Robots, Artificial Intelligence and Eco-Fiction

By: Josh Sandy
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Despite the classic world-dominating artificial intelligence trope, eco-fiction frequently portrays machines as our eventual saviours

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