This week we’re looking at three scifi films that came out in 2018 with coincidentally strong parental themes. We start with Rpatz at the tender mercies of psycho-space nurse Juliette Binoche in High Life (2018). Next up is father-daughter extraterrestrial camping trip Prospect (2018), with a Shakespearian Pedro Pascal. We finish with the Swedish generation ship cruise liner Aniara (2018) adrift in space, based on the poem from 1956.

Also: Twiglet (2008). Silent Running (1972). Sunshine (2007). Bathos. Prospect, the original short. Anathem (2010). The Defiant Ones (1958). Dudievins by Ilona Balina. Passengers (2016). Saudade. Mentats and the Butlerian Jihad. Avenue 5 (2020). Hilarity ensues? Annihilation (2018). Dirac equation. We play a game of “The Ends of Existentialism” with outrageous French accents.