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No event is more synonymous with the teenage American experience than prom. And the film industry, Satan bless it, has never lost sight of that fact. Prom movies are dime a dozen in the high school subgenre, ranging from the sweet (Never Been Kissed) to the spirited (Footloose) to the

Simon Stalenhag’s graphic novel The Electric State was a poignant, melancholy look at an alternate version of war-torn America. The Russo Bros. made their name with big bombastic blockbusters with a maximalist visual sense. One would think that these two creators wouldn’t be interested in a graphic novel that so

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

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

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