Dystopian Future

Honor’s Half-Life

By Alan Ng | December 2025

Written by Mercies May and director Robert Flowers, Honor’s Half-Life begins with Grace (Kyra Wellington) and her disapproving father, Joe (Alex Petrovich), are…

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Written by Mercies May and director Robert Flowers, Honor's Half-Life begins with Grace (Kyra Wellington) and her disapproving father, Joe (Alex...

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A girl finds a dead body in the not-too-distant dystopian future in Max Isaacson’s Pipe. Just a warning, this is going to be a short and sweet review as...

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Is this becoming a new genre or are we just really angry with politics today? Last Halloween, I reviewed President Evil, which is basically an angry...