2311 – The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)

timespace coordinates: July – August 1897 Varna, Bulgaria > Whitby, North Yorkshire / London, England

The Last Voyage of the Demeter is a 2023 supernatural horror film directed by André Øvredal and written by Bragi F. Schut Jr. and Zak Olkewicz. It is an adaptation of “The Captain’s Log”, a chapter from the 1897 novel Dracula by Bram Stoker.

The film stars Corey Hawkins, Aisling Franciosi, Liam Cunningham, and David Dastmalchian. Its plot follows the doomed crew of the merchant ship Demeter led by Captain Elliot (Cunningham) who attempt to survive the treacherous ocean voyage from Bulgaria to England while being stalked by a legendary vampire, known as Dracula (Javier Botet). (wiki)

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2280 – Lola (2022)

spacetime coordinates: England, 1941

LOLA is a 2022 Irish-British found footage science fiction film directed by Andrew Legge, starring Emma Appleton and Stefanie Martini. Shot on film, using vintage equipment, it is Legge’s feature directorial debut. *announced to be released in early August, 2023. (wiki)

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2235 – Living (2022)

spacetime coordinates: 1953 London

Living is a 2022 British drama film directed by Oliver Hermanus from a screenplay by Kazuo Ishiguro, adapted from the 1952 Japanese film Ikiru directed by Akira Kurosawa, which in turn was inspired by the 1886 Russian novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy. Starring Bill Nighy. (wiki)

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2155 – I Came By (2022)

timely satire and an off-kilter Hugh Bonneville power this slightly muddled serial killer thriller. (express.co.uk review)

directed by Babak Anvari, stars Kelly Macdonald, George MacKay, Percelle Ascott and Hugh Bonneville.

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2114 – Men (2022)

spacetime coordinates: 2020’s, the idyllic English village of Cotson

Men is a 2022 folk horror film written and directed by Alex Garland. It stars Jessie Buckley as a widowed woman who travels on holiday to a countryside village but becomes disturbed and tormented by the strange men in the village, all portrayed by Rory Kinnear. (wiki)

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2111 – The British Garden: Life and Death on Your Lawn (2017 documentary)

The British back garden is a familiar setting, but underneath the peonies and petunias is a much wilder hidden world, a miniature Serengeti, with beauty and brutality in equal measure.

In this documentary, Chris Packham and a team of wildlife experts spend an entire year exploring every inch of a series of interlinked back gardens in Welwyn Garden City. They want to answer a fundamental question: how much wildlife lives beyond our back doors? How good for wildlife is the great British garden? (bbc.co.uk)

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2105 – Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022)

spacetime coordinates: 1932 China, England, New York City, Austria, Germany, Bhutan, Scotland

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore is a 2022 fantasy film directed by David Yates from a screenplay by J. K. Rowling and Steve Kloves. The sequel to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) and Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018), it is the third instalment in the Fantastic Beasts film series and the eleventh overall in the Wizarding World franchise.

Its cast includes Eddie Redmayne, Jude Law, Ezra Miller, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Callum Turner, Jessica Williams, Katherine Waterston, and Mads Mikkelsen. (wiki)

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