From serious sci-fi to spoofs in space, here are films and TV to watch on Netflix if you’re after some futuristic entertainment…
Annihilation
One of Netflix’s in-house productions, Annihilation sees Natalie Portman play a biologist leading a rescue mission into a mysterious zone on the US coastland known as The Shimmer. It’s an area hit by a meteorite that is expanding and doing bizarre stuff to any living things that come into its orbit. What unfolds is a tense and imaginative sci-fi adventure that chucks plenty of other genres and film references into the mix.
There are elements of Apocalypse Now in there as Portman’s crew head into this futuristic heart of darkness, and the elements of horror and monster movies are not hard to spot. The film, which goes fairly bonkers by the end, is written and directed by Alex Garland, and it rightfully got great reviews when it was released in 2018.
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