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‘In the end, there were only images’: A Review of Until the End of the World

Ah, here I am again reviewing a hidden cyberpunk-styled gem for you guys. Yes, it has been a little while, but today I kickstart my reviews with a chunky film that hovers around the four-hour mark! Directed by road movie master, Wim Wenders, and co-written by Michael Almereyda, Peter Carey, and Solveig Dommartin, Until the […]

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Biopunk, Putting the Punk in Biological Apocalypse

Biopunk is a short film that was released in early 2017 from director Liam Garvo and Dresden Pictures and stars Katie Sheridan and Kristian Nairn (Hodor from Game of Thrones). Needless to say, the name itself immediately grabbed my attention. If you aren’t already aware, I don’t like to differentiate biopunk as a genre from […]

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Spielberg Returns to Cyberpunk with Ready Player One

Even if you’re the kind of person who tries their damnedest to remain insulated from our ad-saturated reality, you probably know that the ‘80s are “in” right now. For better or for worse, the movies, music, and fashion of thirty years ago are at the forefront of our society’s collective consciousness. Despite our own propensity […]

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The Future of Neon Dystopia

Where have you been? Many of our readers have noted that Neon Dystopia has been on a hiatus for more than a month. This is true, and I want to apologize to our readers, fans, and the cyberpunk community as a whole, for not addressing this earlier. You deserve an explanation. To begin, I’d like […]

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‘She’s a character in a social narrative with no arc’: A Review of the Marlowe Kana Series

A couple weeks ago, I received a lovely little pressie from writer Joe Peacock. Opening the carefully wrapped package, I was quite excited to see his first three volumes of his Marlowe Kana series, something that I’ve been eyeing off and on for a little while. The synopsis is as follows: ‘It’s 51 years after […]

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‘I think we might be in a Prophecy’: A Review of Bright

Before I start this review, I want to preface this by saying that I know Bright doesn’t appear to be overtly cyberpunk. There is no matrix, there are no rigs, there are no A.I.—essentially, the “cyber” is missing from the film. But I argue that, like cyberpunk fiction, Bright is rooted in the New Wave […]

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Neofeud: The Point and Clicky Adventure of a Cybernetic Dude

Neofeud, developed by Hawaiian writer, artist and game dev Christian Miller (also known as “Silver Spook”), is, as the title suggests, a point and click adventure game set in a dystopic near-future Coastlandia. You play (err, click) as Karl Carbon, a cop that was fired for disobeying an order to shoot an unarmed robotic civilian. […]

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‘Science made him a god’: A Review of The Lawnmower Man’

Wow…I did not expect this in the slightest. Originally titled as Cyber God, and then Stephen King’s: The Lawnmower Man (even though it virtually bore no resemblance to his short story) and finally The Lawnmower Man after King’s lawsuit, the plot is as follows: ‘The eccentric Dr. Lawrence Angelo (Pierce Brosnan) puts mentally disabled landscaper […]

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‘You need to work on your personality’: A Review of Cherry 2000

Do you like science fiction? Do you like westerns? Do you, my dear reader, also like romance? What about a chimeric fusion of all three, stitched together corpse to corpse? If so, then I have a special treat for you! Directed by Steve De Jarnatt, Cherry 2000 is an unusual gem filmed towards the latter […]

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