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EX MACHINA and Alex Garland

One of Alex Garland’s goals in writing the script for his directorial debut, EX MACHINA, was to get the science right, even for subjects such as consciousness and artificial intelligence, … Continue reading

April 16, 2015 · Leave a comment

A Choppy CHAPPIE

CHAPPIE is a cross between Pinicchio and ROBOCOP with a dash of DISTRICT 9.  That last is unsurprising because CHAPPIE is the brainchild of Niell Blomkamp, and many of the … Continue reading

March 7, 2015 · Leave a comment

ROBOCOP Reborn.

ROBOCOP is a laudable rethinking of the 1987 original. Told in broad thematic strokes, it still harbors in its soul a fine dialectic on identity, humanity, and even the reality … Continue reading

February 13, 2014 · Leave a comment