Brainscan (1994)
If you wanted to see an “ancient future” movie directed by a filmmaker who worked on West Side Story (as a script supervisor) and with Elvis Presley on Kid Galahad (as an second assistant director), then this is your movie. That filmmaker eventually made a film that a Southern California video store clerk later adopted […]
Paycheck (2003)
Some rules that I have established of “Is this an ancient future cyberpunk movie?” I will answer some of these to determine the veracity of Paycheck‘s status. Does it have the title of a Philip K. Dick book but not really have much to do with it? Yes, it’s based on his story Paycheck which originally appeared […]
Runaway (1984)
Michael Crichton is the storytelling engine behind so many of the Ancient Future genre that we’re talking about all this week, someone who was ahead of his time at one time and now, we can look back at his films and say, “Wow, that future sure got old.” Before he was doing ads about reverse […]
Disclosure (1994) and the Exploration of the “Erotic Thrillers” of the ’90s
When the net meets sex . . . you’re screwed. — the tagline that never was “A feather is sexy. A whole chicken is erotic. A rooster will get you into the kinky. Are you into poultry, Nick?” — the greatest line Catherine Trammel never spoke While the “video nasty” was our analog-rental de rigueur […]
The Net (1995)
Sure, the internet existed in 1995 but in no way did it work like it does in this movie, which is perhaps most memorable for positing a world in which Dennis Miller has seen Sandra Bullock’s intimate parts and for also giving us the best pizza ordering site we’ve ever seen. I’ve also realized that […]
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