Y2K (1999) and Y2K (1999)
No. That’s not a B&S About Movies site bug: there’s two movies with the same title released in the same year jumping on the “Year 2000/Millennium Bug” bugwagon that was going to, well, descend the Earth into global chaos. The first one, also known as Y2K: The Movie, aka Countdown to Chaos in the overseas […]
Terminal Entry (1987)
“The computer . . . some people think it’s a high tech toy. But this is no toy!“— copywriting department gobbledygook You’re David Mickey Evans: A budding screenwriter that wants to break into the business with two, deeply personal screenplays—Radio Flyer (1990) and The Sandlot (1993)—that enrapture the innocence of your childhood and lifelong love […]
Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
The Turing test is a test of a machine’s ability to exhibit the same intelligent behavior as a human. It often shows up in cyberpunk movies, so I’ve devised my own test. The ancient future test is one to determine if the movie that you are watching fits into that genre, a time when books […]
eXistenZ (1999)
While the rest of the world was losing their mind over The Matrix, David Cronenberg quitely released this movie, a tale of alternate realities that is a way bigger idea inside a way smaller movie. Sometime in the future, Antenna Research and Cortical Systematics are in a war with one another to make the latest and […]
Prime Risk (1985)
We, the lost analog-cum-celluloid denizens of the (digital) pages of B&S About Movies are here to partake of another one of our “theme weeks,” in this case, all of those “ancient future” computer movies of the ’80s and ’90s that made the Internet more amazing and more frightening than it actually is. For those were […]
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