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Arrival (review)
SPOILER ALERT! I’m gonna tell you pretty much everything that happens in this film. Thanksgiving weekend is a good time for movies, old and new. We saw Arrival two weeks ago, when it opened, and I started a review, but it was too early … Continue reading
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Tagged Amy Adams, Arrival film, Jeremy Renner, sci fi films, science fiction
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Eva and Ava: Dream Girls of the Future
If you read the film reviews on this site, you’ll know there are two kinds of films I love: AI/futuristic sic fi of a dystopian bent and foreign films (though not French so much). In the past week it’s been my … Continue reading
Posted in film, reviews
Tagged AI, AI in film, Daniel Bruhl, Eva, Ex Machina, futuristic films, Oscar Isaac, robots, science fiction
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Her: The Utopian Nightmare
We watched the Spike Jonze film Her on Saturday night. It’s about a man named Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix) who has a romantic relationship with a computer operating system (OS). I wish I’d seen it on the big screen, in part because it … Continue reading
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Tagged artificial intelligence in film, Blade Runner and Her, Her, Joaquin Phoenix, romantic relationship, sci fi films, science fiction, Spike Jonze, technology in film
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An Actual/Virtual Dystopia
Something happened on Sunday that shook me up, as it seemed to mark a change or shift in the way the world operates that is deeply unsettling. A number of people were posting on Facebook about the suicide of Canadian … Continue reading
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Tagged Anonymous, blogger justice, dystopia, evidence, fake news, genre, hacktivism, Jon Stewart, media, rape, Rehtaeh Parsons, science fiction, Steubenville rape, The Daily Show, The Good Wife
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