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Stars: Lisa Bearpark, Daniel Epstein, Håkan Julander, Jennifer Lila, Vee Vimolmal | Written and Directed by Björn Engström

We are currently living in a world of “alternative facts” and “fake news.” A film with the premise of saving all existence by using hard science and facts is then, very appealing to me.

Is time linear? Is “here” the same as “there”? “Does Keanu Reeves know kung-fu?” In a little over an hour Tangent Room is looking to answer these questions (well at least the first two)

We quickly get set up with four arrogant scientist / academic types in an old room with an old blackboard and between them they need to use science to save their lives and maybe even more besides.

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They have been locked in a room together by the elusive scientist Wallstein who only one of them has met in person. Wallstein has created a...

MSN UK and Endemol UK announced today the launch of their new interactive sci-fi web series Kirill, starring British actor David Schofield (Pirates of the Carribean, Gladiator). Pure Grass Films, a UK-based web production outfit known for their Beyond the Rave series with MySpaceTV, co-produced the series. Schofield plays a Kirill, scientist at Cern, the backers of the recently completed real-life (and possibly terrifying) Large Hadron Collider who is communicating from 50 years into the future after a massive disaster has hit the planet. In his dystopian future he's a "desperate, driven, vulnerable fugitive keeping himself alive by fear and stubbornness." The show's site is run off of Microsoft's Silverlight video technology, which means you'll need to sit through the 30-second download if you didn't do it already watching the Summer Olympics on NBC.com. There's also a YouTube UK official channel that's a little more friendly to embedding and viewers...