What happens when you pair one of cinema’s hottest auteurs with one of Hollywood’s quirkiest actors, and a hefty amount of creative control? You get one of the most distinctly strange sci-fi films to ever grace the big screen. Don’t get me wrong, Bong Joon-Ho made a name for himself
Everything We Saw at SXSW 2025
And that’s another SXSW for the history books. At the same festival that saw a keynote talk given by the CEO trying to bring the Woolly Mammoth back, cinephiles and genre enthusiasts also got a new Babak Anvari banger, the unicorn horror-comedy you never knew you needed, and a reported
The Electric State Confirms How Sci-FI Stories Use A.I. Characters Must Change
This article contains spoilers for The Electric State. The Electric State has many problems: derivative plot, lackluster acting, indifferent visual style. But the most troubling issue might be the way it portrays AI. In The Electric State‘s fictional 1994, a technological leap in 1990 allowed machines to become self-aware. They
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There’s nothing I enjoy more than a horror movie that is so bad that it becomes good again. The stars align and the fact that it is awful is exactly what makes it great. Everyone is running on all cylinders and the camp factor, the cheesy dialogue, the predictability, the
Bones and All: Ranking the Star Trek Doctors and Physicians
Given its mission to seek out new life and new civilizations, Star Trek doesn’t give its physicians the most glamorous jobs. Captain Kirk and Commander Riker get to go on adventures, Picard and Spock wrestle with complex questions. The doctors just clean up the mess. And yet, the doctors remain