2450 – Godzilla Minus One (2023)

timespace coordinates: 1945-47 (postwar) Japan

Godzilla Minus One (ゴジラ-1.0マイナスワン, Gojira Mainasu Wan) is a 2023 Japanese epic kaiju film written, directed, and with visual effects by Takashi Yamazaki. Produced by Toho Studios and Robot Communications and distributed by Toho, it is the 37th film in the Godzilla franchise, Toho’s 33rd Godzilla film, and the fifth film in the franchise’s Reiwa era.

The film stars Ryunosuke Kamiki, Minami Hamabe, Yuki Yamada, Munetaka Aoki, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Sakura Ando and Kuranosuke Sasaki. Set in postwar Japan, it follows a former kamikaze pilot suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder after encountering a giant monster known as “Godzilla“.

Godzilla Minus One is widely considered one of the best films of 2023 and among the greatest Godzilla movies ever made. (wiki)

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2356 – Leave the World Behind (2023)

timespace coordinates: 2022. unplanned vacation to a rented house in Long Island

Leave the World Behind is a 2023 American apocalyptic psychological thriller film written, directed and produced by Sam Esmail. It is based on the 2020 novel of the same name by Rumaan Alam. The film stars Julia Roberts (who also produced the film), Mahershala Ali, Ethan Hawke, Farrah Mackenzie, Myha’la, Charlie Evans and Kevin Bacon as they attempt to make sense of the gradual breakdown in phones, television and technology which points to a potential cataclysm. (wiki)

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2351 – The Shepherd (short 2023)

timespace coordinates: christmas eve 1957 RAF Celle in northern Germany > RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk

Based on The Shepherd by Frederick Forsyth (1976). Although this is the short story’s first screen adaptation, the story has been read nearly every Christmas Eve, or the Friday night closest to it, on CBC Radio One’s radio show, “As it Happens” by Alan Maitland since 1979.

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2349 – The Forgotten Battle (De Slag om de Schelde) 2020

timespace coordinates: September – November 1944 on the flooded island of Walcheren in Zeeland ( the Netherlands)

The Forgotten Battle (Dutch: De Slag om de Schelde) is a 2020 Dutch war epic film directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. that depicts the Battle of the Scheldt in 1944. The film follows a Dutch Axis soldier played by Gijs Blom, a British glider pilot played by Jamie Flatters, and a resistance woman from Zeeland played by Susan Radder. (wiki)

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2308 – Space Cowboys (2000)

timespace coordinates: 1958 / 1998 Houston Texas / Florida / Utah

Space Cowboys is a 2000 American adventure drama film directed and produced by Clint Eastwood. It stars Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, and James Garner as four older “ex-test pilots” who are sent into space to repair an old Soviet satellite. (wiki)

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2278

Kandahar (2023)

spacetime coordinates: 2010’s  Iran / Dubai / Herat, Afghanistan > Kandahar

Kandahar is a 2023 American action film directed by Ric Roman Waugh and written by Mitchell LaFortune. The film stars Gerard Butler (who is also a producer) and features a supporting cast that includes Ali Fazal, Navid Negahban and Travis Fimmel.

The film is based on former military intelligence officer Mitchell LaFortune’s spec script Burn Run inspired by his experiences working for the Defense Intelligence Agency and being deployed to Afghanistan in 2013 during the Snowden leaks. (wiki)

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2262 – Plane (2023)

spacetime coordinates: Trailblazer Airlines Flight 119 from Singapore to Honolulu via Tokyo // Jolo island in the Philippines

Plane is a 2023 American action thriller film directed by Jean-François Richet. The film stars Gerard Butler, Mike Colter, Yoson An, and Tony Goldwyn. (wiki)

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