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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...

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

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

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

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...

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

Star Trek the Motion Picture is an enigma. It was born from overlapping frequencies within pop culture that, when they combined in this fi...

In 1978 no one knew what to expect next from Steven Spielberg. His first feature, Jaws had smashed records and changed the way movies were...

Stanley Kubrick’s groundbreaking masterpiece is a notorious chore to watch. It is beautiful and resonant, and slow and ponderous. ...

Produced around the outset of WWII Things to Come presents a transitional view of the future, from a moment when outcomes were unimaginabl...

Pessimism is easy. A world that is doomed requires no maintenance, which appeals to laziness. And fiery conflagration will more reliably...

2001: a Space Odyssey is either about everything or it’s about nothing. It’s either a hard long look at what defines us as human beings ...

Steven Spielberg's A.I.  is not easy to watch. It is beautiful, strange and inventive. But it’s also creepy in a way that shows Spielb...

Automota is a film heavily indebted to Blade Runner . Its visual style and central conceit is so similar it could even be speculated they ...

The desires for friendship, love, sex, and trust are at the heart of Ex-Machina even more so than the idea of artificial intelligence. It...

Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin is a slow hypnotic masterpiece. It is inventive in its story telling and maddeningly patient. The film u...

If a movie like Blade Runner gives us a template for dystopian futurism doomed by nuclear fall out and human savagery, Spike Jonze’s Her ...

Blade Runner was Ridley Scott’s immediate follow up to Alien. When it came out in 1982 it was pretty much the grimmest film ever made up ...

Artificial intelligence is tightening its grip on the popular imagination. As computers become more capable and physical robotics beco...

           I will try not to fault Bob Fosse’s deeply personal investigation of his life and pathologies, All That Jazz, for the fact tha...