{"id":790502,"date":"2024-10-19T06:46:53","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T11:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=790502"},"modified":"2024-10-19T06:46:53","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T11:46:53","slug":"sky-peals-review-understated-sci-fi-drama-traverses-themes-of-immigration-and-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=790502","title":{"rendered":"Sky Peals review: Understated sci-fi drama traverses themes of immigration and identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Umer (Faraz Ayub) wonders if he is not\u00a0of\u00a0this\u00a0world<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Lisa Stonehouse\/Escape Films<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Sky Peals<\/strong><\/em><br \/><strong>Moin Hussain<\/strong><br \/><em>A BFI Player subscription streaming exclusive until 21 October, when it will be on Amazon and iTunes<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In film and TV, aliens have come in all shapes and sizes. Among them are the seven-limbed floating heptapods of Denis Villeneuve\u2019s <i>Arrival<\/i> and, much less ethereal, Adam Sandler\u2019s talking arachnoid companion in <i>Spaceman<\/i>. Thanks to the <i>Alien<\/i> franchise alone onscreen extraterrestrials gained an additional two dozen guises.<\/p>\n<p>It is slightly more unusual for them to assume human form, as is the case in\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg26435130-200-understated-sci-fi-drama-traverses-themes-of-immigration-and-identity\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=space&#038;rand=772163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Umer (Faraz Ayub) wonders if he is not\u00a0of\u00a0this\u00a0world Lisa Stonehouse\/Escape Films Sky PealsMoin HussainA BFI Player subscription streaming exclusive until 21 October, when it will be on Amazon and iTunes&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":790503,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-790502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=790502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/790503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=790502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=790502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=790502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}