On April 18, 1973, MGM unveiled Richard Fleischer's dystopian, 98-minute sci-fi drama in Los Angeles. By Alan R. Howard On April 18, 1973, MGM unveiled Richard Fleischer’s dystopian, 98-minute sci-fi ...

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 ...

Released in 1973, Soylent Green imagines a dystopian nightmare version of 2022 in which overpopulation and climate disaster have made the Earth nearly unlivable. Resource and housing shortages have ...

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 ...

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...

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 ...

Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. OK, so most of us are painfully aware of what the Soylent Green in Soylent Green (1973) is. Moreover, anyone watching the movie is ...

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 ...

WHY WE CARE: Soylent staked its ground in “this product is kind of creepy” territory from the moment they named their nutritional meal-replacement “soylent,” after the 1973 horror-thriller Soylent ...