21st-century sci-fi cinema – critics and speculative fiction novelists pick a ground breaking film from each year
In a world of ever-accelerating, ever more frantic change, when artificial intelligence is becoming more and more an accepted element in filmmaking, what can science fiction offer that reality doesn’t already give us?
Going by the films our writers have suggested, unbounded imagination and an extraordinary capacity for turning complex ideas into astonishing visual images.
Over the next 56 pages, Michael Atkinson presents an all-seeing overview of science fiction cinema in the 21st century, while critics and sci-fi novelists select a film from each year since the millennium that has expanded the genre and stretched our minds.
Plus, the state of AI in filmmaking – is the hype for real?
And a chance to pit your sci-fi knowledge against Kim Newman’s alternative 21st-century timeline quiz: can you name the crystal gazing films that prophesied each year from 2001 to 2050?
