Chiwetel Ejiofor

The Pod Generation

By Alan Ng | August 2023

NOW IN THEATERS! Sophie Barthes’ science-fiction feature, The Pod Generation, takes place in a not-too-distant utopian future. Then the writer-director screws around…

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