The Matrix Resurrections creates what is—at least in my estimation—a decidedly lunarpunk world and brings the budding aesthetic and subgenre to the big screen, if not for the first time, then at least in the most high profile example to date.
Category Archives: Reviews
Don’t Look Up: Netflix’s #1 Movie takes on Climate Denial
A film about how hilariously absurd our collective mass climate denial has become.
Cyberpunk Fairy Tales Packed a Punch and Left Me Feeling Hopeful
Edited by Rhonda Parrish, this third installment of her “Punked Up Fairy Tales” series more than lived up to my hopes and expectations, and left me craving more cyberpunk stories.
Solarpunk Futures: A Fun and Creative Utopian Storytelling Game
The Solarpunk Futures card game let’s players solve problems and build utopias together through collaborative and cooperative storytelling.
Review of “The Future We Choose: The Stubborn Optimist’s Guide to the Climate Crisis”
The closer we run out the clock on the changes we need to make to avoid catastrophic climate change and a total collapse of ecosystems, the greater our climate anxiety spikes, paralyzing us into not taking action. You could call it a death spiral. If we let it occur, that is. Here then perhaps is the book to kick us in the kiester with enough positive thinking to get us moving.
Free Guy and Building Utopia
This is a movie that lived in dystopia, but it didn’t end there. It ended with optimism, hope, and a beautiful, new, utopian world.
Tom Hanks’s “Finch” isn’t Solarpunk, it’s a Solarflop
I wanted to be able to call this film solarpunk. I wanted to like this movie and come away from it excited. Unfortunately, neither ended up being the case.
One Year Later, “Recognize Fascism” is Still One of the Most Important Anthologies You Need to Read
In a moment where rightwing extremism continues to boldly rear its ugly head, books like Recognize Fascism are vital and welcomed additions to our cultural conversation.