Science Fiction
Science fiction on screen: the films and shows that imagined robots, AI and dystopian cities, and what they got right.
Science
Connection
How 2001: A Space Odyssey Predicted the AI Assistant (and Got the Scary Part Right)
HAL 9000 talked to astronauts in plain English in 1968 — decades before Siri. The unsettling part wasn't the voice.
Culture
Listicle
5 Public-Domain Sci-Fi and Horror Films You Can Legally Watch Tonight
No subscriptions, no paywalls, no gray-area streaming sites — these classics are free because their copyright already ran out.
Culture
Spotlight
Spotlight: The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Rod Serling used aliens and time travel to say things about 1960s America that network censors wouldn't let him say directly.
Culture
Spotlight
Spotlight: Metropolis (1927)
Every dystopian sci-fi skyline owes something to a German silent film that was nearly lost forever.