Microworld (1976)
Mircoworld is the perfect film to wrap up our “Ancient Future Week” that you’ve enjoyed from April 11 to April 17. Do you want to know how microprocessors were developed? Do you want to know why those curious # and * buttons were designed for the telephone? Courtesy of this AT&T short film production — […]
Exploring: The “Ancient Future” of A.I.
Thanks to “The Gates” and “The Jobs,” we have a little A.I. in our life. But before Tim Berners-Lee invented HTML and fired up the first Web server and browser at CERN in 1991. Before Benoit Mandelbrot discovered fractal geometry and unleashed the M-Set on the world and made your selfie-self a reality. Before Robert […]
BrainWaves (1982)
Ah, there’s nothing like an “Ancient Future Week” inspiring us to review the future-tech tomfoolery of Brainstorm (1980) and Brainscan (1994) — which also uploads a little bit o’ Ulli Lommel into the frontal lobes. Yes. Ulli “I’ve Never Seen a Film I Can’t Copy Cheaper” Lommell has hijacked your grey matter and chopped it […]
The Lawnmower Man: A Suburban Nightmare (1987)
Another Stephen King Dollar Baby short film — so-called because low-budget filmmakers could make one of his scripts for a $1 — The Lawnmower Man: A Suburban Nightmare was written by future screenwriter and New Line Cinema production executive Michael De Luca, who also wrote Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare, In the Mouth of Madness […]
RoboCop 3 (1993)
RoboCop 3 presents an astounding and completely science fiction conceit: a robot police officer built by a corporation decides to stop serving the interests of law, order and the establishment and throws in with a bunch of homeless multicultural people. Read this line and get it: RoboCop gets shot by a bunch of white supremacist […]
Dark City (1998)
The Matrix may be the movie that most go to when they think of 90’s cyberpunk , but the truth is that Dark City came out a year before* and has many of the same storybeats. And Grant Morrison’s 1994 comic The Invisibles had plenty of the elements that The Matrix also mined, like the leap of faith […]
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