Category: Science Fiction

• Aelita: Queen of Mars (1924) dr. Yakov Protazanov

  September 8, 2025

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  1920s, Science Fiction, Soviet Union

  In Aelita: Queen of Mars (1926), an apparent alien signal from the planet Mars leads to Loss, a beleaguered engineer from Soviet Russia, building a spaceship so he can forget about his marital problems. After flying to Mars in a rocket ship with his friend Gusev, Loss falls in love with Aelita, the queen of…

  

• Minority Report (2002) dir. Steven Spielberg

  September 4, 2025

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  2000s, Science Fiction

  Instead of the future being an exciting entity in Minority Report, there is a sort of indifference to it, since it is already known. The world of Washington DC in 2054 is essentially a recreated mythology, with the Precogs resembling the Oracles in how they retell abstract versions of the future. But with the addition…