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1645 – Spell (2020)

timespace coordinates: 2010’s rural Appalachia

Spell is a 2020 American horror film directed by Mark Tonderai about a wealthy father who miraculously survives a private plane crash and becomes trapped by a traditional Hoodoo practitioner who claims she can nurse him back to health with a Boogity figure.

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1642 – Snowpiercer (TV Series 2020-)

timespace coordinates: 2021, seven years after the world becomes a frozen wasteland, the remnants of humanity inhabit a perpetually moving train consisting of 1001 carriages that circles the globe 2.7 revolutions per year (133 days to complete a revolution). Built by billionaire Wilford, the train is rigidly separated by class, with passengers caught up in a revolutionary struggle against the strictly imposed social hierarchy and unbalanced allocation of limited resources.

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Snowpiercer is an American post-apocalyptic dystopian thriller television drama series that premiered on TNT on May 17, 2020. It is based on both the 2013 South Korean–Czech film of the same name, directed by Bong Joon-ho, and the 1982 French graphic novel Le Transperceneige, from which the film was adapted, by Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand, and Jean-Marc Rochette.

A reboot of the film’s continuity, the series questions class warfaresocial injustice, and the politics of survival. Daveed Diggs and Jennifer Connelly star alongside Mickey SumnerAnnalise Basso, Sasha Frolova, Alison Wright, Benjamin Haigh, Roberto Urbina, Katie McGuinness, Susan ParkLena HallSheila VandSam OttoIddo Goldberg, and Jaylin Fletcher. (wiki)

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1640 – Tales from the Loop (TV Series 2020-)

timespace coordinates: 1955 > early 1980s Mercer, Ohio. Mercer is home to the Mercer Center for Experimental Physics, an underground facility known as the Loop. It is there where researchers attempt to “make the impossible possible”.

Tales from the Loop is an American science fiction drama web television series based on the art book of the same name by Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag (536). The series premiered on Amazon Prime Video on April 3, 2020. All eight episodes of the first season were released simultaneously. (wiki)

David Baird from the B.C. Catholic characterizes the series as “a set of loosely interrelated meditations upon ephemerality, the impact of technology, and human vulnerability infused with a mild science fiction savour” and considers it “a beguiling fusion of forward-looking nostalgia”.

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1634 – The Glorias (2020)

timespace coordinates: 40’s >70’s America, late 50’s India

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The Glorias is a 2020 American biographical film directed and produced by Julie Taymor. It is based upon My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem. It stars Julianne Moore as Steinem, with Alicia Vikander portraying a younger Steinem, from ages 20 to 40. Timothy HuttonLorraine ToussaintJanelle Monáe, and Bette Midler complete the cast. (wiki)

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1632 – The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020)

timespace coordinates: 2010’s  small mountain town

The Wolf of Snow Hollow is a 2020 American horror comedy film written, directed by and starring Jim Cummings, as well as Robert Forster in his final film role. (wiki)

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1615 – Ju-on: Origins (TV Series 2020-)

timespace coordinates: 1988 – 1994 – 1997 Japan

JU-ON: Origins is a Japanese horror web television series based on the Ju-On franchise. The series premiered on Netflix on July 3, 2020. (wiki)

A paranormal researcher searches obsessively for a cursed home where something terrible happened to a mother and her child long ago. The J-horror classic franchise Ju-On was actually based on real events that occurred over four decades — and the truth is even more terrifying. (rt)

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1614 – Intersect (2020)

A Lovecraftian Sci-Fi Thriller

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