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Foundation review: Apple TV+ new offering is science fiction at its cerebral best

Foundation is a beautifully shot, well-thought-out piece of science fiction, unspooling itself at a languid pace.

The Jared Harris interview | 'If you don't feel terrified as an actor, you're not doing the job right'

Jared Harris discusses what he found sumptuously terrifying about his new character in Foundation, the challenges of bringing to life a fictional but iconic literary character, and how the Apple show falls in line with the other great TV shows he is known for.

Ahead of trailer launch, a peek into the world of The Matrix Resurrections

Warner Bros has launched an interactive website for The Matrix 4, starring Keanu Reeves, Neil Patrick Harris, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, and Priyanka Chopra Jonas.

Vivarium movie review: Imogen Poots, Jesse Eisenberg are trapped in an endless suburban nightmare

Lorcan Finnegan’s Vivarium sees Imogen Poots and Jesse Eisenberg go real estate shopping and end up in a Kafkaesque nightmare

Artiste Anthony Ramos on his new album Love and Lies, colourism debate around In The Heights

Ramos, who got his break in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s smash musical Hamilton, is having a breakthrough year as an actor, also appearing opposite Uzo Aduba in the HBO reboot of In Treatment. His next projects include a sci-fi epic, Distant, as well as the next Transformers installment.

Read Bonkubabu's Friend: An unpublished translation by Satyajit Ray of his story of an alien-human friendship

The Bengali story was originally published in the magazine Sandesh (February 1962) as Bonkubabur Bondhu. The English translation by Satyajit Ray, hitherto unpublished, has been transcribed from Ray’s literary notebook.

Solos review: Amazon Prime Video sci-fi anthology is a worthy exploration of humans connected by isolation

Isolation, a sense of loss, and technology — three relevant threads run through all seven short films in David Weil's perceptive sci-fi anthology Solos.

The One: Netflix’s latest sci-fi series fails to add value to the concept of custom-made love in a dystopian world

The One explores the alternatives for what happens when human beings feel the need to be alone, yet find love.

If I ever get stuck in a time loop, I'd love to be on a film set every day of my life: Kathryn Newton

In an exclusive, Kathryn Newton talks about her new Amazon Prime Video sci-fi romance film The Map of Tiny Perfect Things, and choosing critically acclaimed projects like Big Little Lies, Ladybird, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

Nearly 25 years ago, David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest predicted the Zoom call phenomenon, and its demise

The novel depicts a conjectural North American superstate during the first decade of the 21st century. But what if we were living out Wallace’s speculative fiction?