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From a thriller set on the International Space Station to Nicolas Cage reeling from monsters, end-days are everywhere. Luckily, 2024 also has some cracking blockbusters and intriguing independent features, says Simon Ings
By Simon Ings
The International Space Station is the setting for a post-apocalyptic thriller
Bleecker Street
FOR a creative industry that has the whole of human experience and an entire planet to draw inspiration from, the film business is extraordinarily attracted to dreaming up scenarios for end times.
Consider these forthcoming offerings. Russian and American astronauts on the International Space Station witness a nuclear apocalypse on the planet below and are ordered into deadly conflict with each other in Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s thriller I.S.S. (US 19 January; UK dates to be announced).
And in Arcadian…
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