The last time someone groped Robert Pattinson aboard a spaceship, to the best of my knowledge, was in Claire Denis's 2018 movie, "High Life." The groper was a lowlife--a deranged doctor, bent on harvesting astronaut semen for pernicious procreative ends. Pattinson's character, a self-declared celibate, was unconscious and unconsenting. The assault took place on the grottiest of vessels, manned by violent criminals who had been banished into deep space. The movie was a hell of a dark trip, but Pattinson, among the most consistently adventurous actors of his generation, kept you tethered to the story with an almost gravitational force.

Tilda Swinton's line "I took nature and science, and synthesised," is simple enough, but in the first teaser to director Bong Joon-ho's upcoming Netflix film, Okja, it carries a lot of meaning. The follow up to Snowpiercer, Bong's new movie explores the liminal state between animal and man. It's central character, however, is Mija -- a young girl who seeks to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her friend. Her friend happens to be a massive "synthenised" beast called named Okja, that kind of looks like a pig-ish, elephant-skinned creature with very human eyes. Described as a "comedy drama," the film crosses continents and explores dystopian themes of genetically modified food, humanity's obsession with branding and self-promotion (see the villainous shots of Swinton staring into the mirror and leading a huge press conference), globalisation and eco-terrorism.