"Soylent Green is people," lead actor Charlton Heston bellows as he is carried away on a stretcher, simultaneously becoming a meme and summing up the plot so thoroughly that there's little need to ...

“ [Soylent Green] was one of the best movies I ever did, primarily because of Eddie [Robinson],” Heston said in one of his last interviews before his death in 2008 at age 84.

In the spring of 1973, the movie Soylent Green premiered. The film drops us into a New York City that’s overcrowded, polluted, and dealing with the effects of a climate catastrophe. Only the city’s ...