The best science fiction stories will often be those that explore social and political aspects of the world we live in, while often trying to extrapolate where we as a people may end up in the future, and now with director Lazar Bodroža’s R-rated science fiction thriller, we get a film that not only does…
Tag: artificial intelligence
Upgrade (2018) – Review
With advances in computer/human interactions reaching levels that surpass even what we saw on shows like The Jetsons, with Siri, Google, and Alexa invading millions of lives, it’s not surprising that we are going to get more “fear of technology” themed movies. In 1968, Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey gave us the chilling HAL…
D.A.R.Y.L. (1985) – Review
When it comes to computers with artificial intelligence Hollywood has mostly been in the camp of “This is a really bad idea,” with such notable examples being the murderous Hal 9000 from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, to the more recent entry in the genre the duplicitous Ava from Alex Garland’s Ex Machina, but…
Swords of Mars: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review
Welcome back John Carter! With the eighth book in the Barsoom series the narrative switches back to the character who started it all; released in 1936, in the pages of Blue Book, this six part serial was the first time we’d had a John Carter centric story since Warlord of Mars.
Futureworld (1976) – Review
In 1973 a small little science fiction film was released by MGM called Westworld, then three years later American International Pictures made a sequel, and it kind of sucked.