Fallen Angels
Wong Kar-wai’s fifth feature reunites the Hong Kong filmmaker with cinematographer Christopher Doyle, for another dose of slo-mo fast living. This is two stories in one: the first a hitman […]
Tag Archives: The Matrix
Akira
In the futuristic year 2019, Tokyo has been destroyed and a new metropolis built on artificial islands now rife with violence, protest and gang warfare. During a skirmish the young […]
Daredevil
Ben Affleck’s first attempt at his as yet unrealised goal of helming a franchise, Daredevil sees the eponymous hero blinded in a freak skateboarding accident. Attempting to cross Batman with […]
Resident Evil: Afterlife
As if our collective intelligence wasn’t already being insulted on a daily basis by press conferences about a deadly virus delivered by a shambling humanoid doberman, the Resident Evil franchise is […]
Source Code
Watching the Source Code DVD, you’d be forgiven for thinking you’d accidentally put in The Adam and Joe DVD, since it starts with a gum advert voiced by Adam Buxton […]
The Matrix Revolutions
The Matrix Revolutions continues where its predecessor (and the one before that) left off, with Zion on the brink of invasion and Morpheus (Lawrence Fishburne) off the deep end of religious […]
The Matrix Reloaded
Shortly after The Matrix introduced pince-nez glasses to a whole new audience, Neo (Keanu Reeves) hasn’t saved the humans; Morpheus (Lawrence Fishburne) is somehow still allowed to captain a ship; Zion, the […]
The Matrix
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the film that gave us bullet time, Neo and the song Closer. Or was that Ne-Yo? Considering it established the aesthetic for 10 […]
Blog: Artificial Intelligence in Film
This article contains spoilers for I, Robot, Ex Machina and A.I.: Artificial Intelligence. I recently read the brilliant Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark; a look at the implications of the […]
Ready Player One
Steven Spielberg’s second film in 3 months is Ready Player One, written by dodgy bearded poet Ernest Cline (writer of the best-selling novel) and Zak Penn, who presumably combine to form […]
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