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These three sci-fi movies on Peacock to watch in May 2025 are dark, ominous, and thrilling. Two of them, in fact, depict a post-apocalyptic world, one from the past and another from well into the ...

Karma: The Dark World doesn't do much to hide its inspirations ... ideas end up bewilderingly mishandled. You enter Karma's sci-fi world intentionally wrongfooted. Its story starts from the ...

The latest season has dropped recently. ‘I Am Mother’ is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi drama that revolves around a teenage girl who is being raised by a robot who is meant to repopulate the Earth.

Dark City premiered in 1998, and it quickly became a cult classic sci-fi film. Along with earning a Hugo Award nomination for Best Dramatic Presentation, it's said to have influenced The Matrix ...

Pete Volk (he/they) is Polygon’s Curation Editor, with a particular love for action and martial arts movies. In Split Fiction, a giant publishing company has invited a group of unpublished ...

It may not reach the same cinematic highs of “Parasite”, but “Mickey 17” is a fun, thought-provoking sci-fi dark comedy infused with Bong’s signature wit and social critique. With an ...

For those in the know, there aren't many names bigger in science fiction than classic author J.G. Ballard, who wrote a host of incredibly influential and far-sighted stories. His oeuvre could ...