In 1976's imagined version of 2274, do Black people exist? According to Logan’s Run, you’d think the answer is no.
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Russell Nichols is a speculative fiction writer and endangered journalist. Raised in Richmond, California, he got rid of all his stuff in 2011 to live out of a backpack with his wife, vagabonding around the world ever since. Look for him at russellnichols.com.
A conversation between Strange Days (1995) and One Battle After Another (2025).
An early draft of The Brother from Another Planet was titled The Brother Who Fell to Earth. But for a film released in 1984, starring Joe Morton as a three-toed runaway extraterrestrial slave who can’t speak, a riff on the David Bowie vehicle wouldn’t do it justice. This parable needed a name of its own.
In its distinct way, the style in The Wiz stitches America’s troubling past to an imagined Black future, creating something truly surreal.
Is Carl Franklin's Out of Time an overlooked neo-noir gem, or just another B-is-for-bargain-bin movie?
What a fight! What a night! What a testament to an unmatched body of work by the one and only Mr. Spike Lee.