The year is 2022. Our overpopulated planet is experiencing catastrophic climate change, megacorporations have excessive power over the government, and clean living is a luxury only the 1 percent can ...

I can imagine, in the early '70s, i.e., after the release of Soylent Green (1973), people finding its climax to be what we now call creepypasta. Why only then? It’s quite possible even today.

The 1973 classic imagined a world wracked by climate change and food shortages. Parts of the bleak movie hit uncomfortably close to home. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news ...

The 1970s was the golden age of eco-thrillers, films and books that imagined not-too-distant futures in which the environment was so badly damaged that life as we knew it had become impossible. The ...

In the year 2022, even the simple things in life have all but disappeared. A bar of soap is eyed with envy. Vegetables are a rarity, and strawberry jam goes for $150 a jar. People start weeping at the ...

During my youth, apocalyptic science fiction movies were big at the box office — and Charlton Heston was king. The matinee idol, who made a name for himself in 1950s biblical epics like “Ben Hur” and ...

In the spring of 1973, the movie Soylent Green premiered. The film drops us into a New York City that’s overcrowded, polluted, and dealing with the effects of a climate catastrophe. Only the city’s ...

Fans believe that Vince Gilligan’s Pluribus could be drawing its inspiration from the 1973 movie, Soylent Green. While this isn’t the first theory to surface online, it certainly has the strongest ...

Movies have been imagining the future for a long time. Perhaps faster-than-light-speed space travel and teleportation in Star Trek could still be in store for the 24th century, but we'll have to wait ...

During my youth, apocalyptic science fiction movies were big at the box office — and Charlton Heston was king. The matinee idol, who made a name for himself in 1950s biblical epics like “Ben Hur” and ...