Minority Report (2002) and the paradox of precognition
Symbols of seeing and not seeing – and the unbearable weight of grief – in sci-fi thriller Minority Report
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Hereditary (2018) and the meaning of madness
Making sense of fun-size houses and larger-than-life horror in Hereditary
Decoding Shutter Island (2010): true selves and hidden identity
Unpacking meaning, mental illness and story signposts in Scorsese’s Shutter Island
Arrival (2016) explained: the tyranny of choice
Sci-fi head-scratcher Arrival has an audacious twist – which it reveals in the film’s opening scenes
Flatliners (1990) explained: hell and hallucination
How Flatliners draws on our fears of hell and isolation to weave its Gothic-inspired horror
Nope (2022) explained: karma written in the skies
Nope’s bombastic sci-fi horror stylings mask a subtler tale of family, grief … and storytelling.