Jordan Peele’s film Nope is one of those confounding films, so full of rich signifiers and symbolisms and yet also Peele not obviously connecting all of them. After four plus…
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Ex Machina: AI Representations Informing the Human Condition
For me, Ex Machina (2014, Alex Garland) is one of the best AI movies (and one of the best science fiction films) ever made. I say that because Garland does…
Don’t Look Up (2021, Adam McKay) has gotten a lot of buzz in recent days and for good reason, it is that rare fiction film that actually addresses climate change…
To my mind, the science fiction genre is just simply the most important of all genres because it speaks to the human condition in the deepest way possible and in…
NOTE: First, this essay is an expansion of a blog post I wrote on Snowpiercer. Second, as I say, this isn’t a blog post but rather one of my academic…