Movie Moxie Podcast 28: Adjustment Bureau, Beastly, Unknown plus Speculative Fiction as a Genre

This week on the Movie Moxie Podcast I review new release of The Adjustment Bureau, Beastly and Unknown as well as take a look at speculative fiction as a film genre.

0:00 – 1:00 - Introduction
1:00 – 8:10 – The Adjustment Bureau Review
8:10 – 17:00 – Beastly Review
17:00 – 23:15 – Unknown Review
23:15 – 37:45 – Speculative Fiction as a Genre
37:45 – 47:00 – DVD releases: Four Lions & The Walking Dead S1
47:00 – 48:00 – Upcoming Films
48:00 – 49:25 – Outro

Show Notes

• DVD Releases for the week
• DVD Reviews: Four Lions & The Walking Dead Season 1

Speculative Fiction Show Notes

• Shannon's definition of speculative fiction films: Films based on a 'What if?' in a current, future or alternate history to present reality. These films are more concept based over science based, and are often centred on the personal, cultural or world affect over the science.
• Films based on the affect on the individual or society: Children of Men, Donnie Darko, Splice, Mr. Nobody, Never Let Me Go
• Alternate Histories: V for Vendetta, Watchmen
• Alternate Realities: The Golden Compass
• Near Future Settings: District B13 / Banlieue B13, Solyaris / Солярис, Runaway, Gamer, Surrogates
• All Speculative Fiction Reviews
• Recommendations from others: Phase IV, Code 4, Planet Sauvage, Handmaid's Tail, Never Let Me Go, The Wind that Blows, Sky Crawlers (thank you Kurt & Stephen for the recommends!)