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F6M33H RELEASE DATE: Dec 18, 2007. ORIGINAL MOVIE TITLE: Blade Runner: The Final Cut. STUDIO: World Artists. PLOT: Twenty-five years after the initial release of BLADE RUNNER, director Ridley Scott uses archival footage to re-create his original vision for the sci-fi classic. Based on a story by Philip K. Dick, the film is set in Los Angeles in 2019. Earth has become a polluted and miserable dystopia, and many people have fled to live 'Off World' on other planets. This dreary vision of the future features replicants: lifelike robots built as slaves for human use. When a replicant escapes his owner, a

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Why we need to fight back against sexy Asian lady robots

Techno-Orientalism is a strand of futurism that condemns and erases Asian cultural power. We need to eradicate it, says Annalee Newitz

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How 'river piracy' made Mount Everest grow even taller

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Samantha Morton stars in dystopian docudrama 2073

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H7XCR8 Winter dawn over industrial chimneys with Seaward Kaikoura Range behind, Christchurch, New Zealand

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How colonialism and industrialisation fuelled the climate crisis

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How genetically modified crops could feed us and help safeguard nature

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Â鶹´«Ã½ recommends Karl Ove Knausgaard's novel The Third Realm

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The chemistry behind making a perfect caramel sauce

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Terminator Zero. Timothy Olyphant as The Terminator in Terminator Zero Cr. COURTESY OF NETFLIX ?? 2024

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Terminator is back, in a striking but flawed anime version

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Netflix handout still: Supacell. SUPACELL is about a group of five ordinary people who unexpectedly develop superpowers. They have little in common except for one thing: they are all Black South Londoners. It is down to one man, Michael Lasaki, to bring them all together in order to save the woman he loves.

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How Star Trek-style replicators could lead to a food revolution

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Ultra-strong stretchy material could enable shape-shifting aircraft

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