The most terrifying science fiction is not the stuff of nightmares, but of reality: dystopian worlds that actually loom ahead. Set in a near-distant future where automation squeezes humans — ...

Gwen is still beautiful, but she’s getting older, and that means her time as spokeswoman for the Center for Advanced Health and Living is running out — something about “shifting desirability targets.” ...

Advantageous is a bold, intimate piece of science fiction. Like all great sci-fi, it asks hard "what if" questions, but instead of turning away from the more personal, uncomfortable implications of ...

Welcome back to Green Screen, where Grist writers break out their inner film buffs to talk movies, television, video games, and whatever other screen-based media strikes our fancy. This week, we ...

Marking Jennifer Phang’s first feature since the 2008 sci-fi drama “Half Life,” “Advantageous” finds the San Francisco-based filmmaker looking into a dystopian near-future. The film, which was ...

Jennifer Phang’s first feature since 2008’s “Half-Life” is another thinking person’s sci-fi tale, this one expanding on a short she made in 2012. The tale of a mother making eventually desperate ...

Jennifer Phang’s indie science fiction film “Advantageous,” a darling of 2015’s Sundance, came to Netflix Instant Streaming earlier this week. If you’re a millennial, you have Netflix. If you’re an un ...