Wednesday, September 6, 2017

Ten Movies with Turn-of-the-Millenium Angst

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In a cultural moment when the wheels feel like they’re coming off it can be instructive to look back at other moments of particular unc...
Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Persistence and Hope in Science Fiction Films Pt. 11 (Interstellar)

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Interstellar is a film that feels enormous. Its reach across narrative time and distance is immense, as are its conceptual set pieces. It...
Monday, May 16, 2016

Persistence and Hope in Science Fiction Films Pt. 10 (Tomorrowland)

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Optimism without the veil of context or the risk of interpretation, Tomorrowland is not so much optimistic Science Fiction as it is science...
Friday, May 13, 2016

Persistence and Hope in Science Fiction Films Pt. 9 (Super 8)

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The simple power of people being people should not be underestimated. People feeling lonely, showing love, receiving sympathy, experiencin...
Thursday, May 12, 2016

Persistence and Hope in Science Fiction Films Pt. 8 (Wall-E)

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Pixar have built their reputation on subtly subverting our assumptions about character building and story construction. Whether they are d...
Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Persistence and Hope in Science Fiction Films Pt. 7 (Her)

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Spike Jonze’s Her is all about people. It is about their feelings, relationships, and what it is that makes love, love.  It is set in the fu...
Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Persistence and Hope in Science Fiction Films Pt. 6 (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

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Humor is often seen as a defense mechanism of the terminally negative. Whimsy however is a much more rare and assertively positive attribute...