Tag: soylent green

Would You Eat Bugs?

Many of the world’s most powerful people and institutions want us to eat the bugs (bite the beetle, chew the cricket, nosh on the night crawler, and so on and so forth.) But will the American people get with the programming? An employee of the factory “L’Atelier a pates” (“The pasta shop”) empties a basket…


Rewind, Review, and Re-Rate: ‘Soylent Green’: A Warning Coming True

PG | 1h 37min | Science Fiction, Thriller | 1973 Before he became a sci-fi writer, Harry Harrison was an illustrator for sci-fi comics. His most famous novel, “Make Room! Make Room!” (1966), was so visually compelling that filmmaker Richard Fleischer adapted it into the dystopian thriller, “Soylent Green” (1973), based on Stanley R. Greenberg’s…