Jan 31, 2024
Imagine a hotel for professional criminals. Now imagine that hotel is actually a hospital. Now imagine that hotel/hospital is staffed only by Jodie Foster and Dave Bautista. That's basically Hotel Artemis. A little cyberpunkish film from 2018 that really slipped through the cracks of all the huge summer blockbusters...
Jan 24, 2024
Sometimes movies surprise you. Sometimes you're sitting down expecting to watch a pile of garbage get set on fire on the screen, and instead you watch a pile of garbage animated into a beautiful dance that you can't take your eyes off of. Nemesis is riddled with flaws, but despite them all, it's an...
Jan 17, 2024
In the year 20__, Theodore is a lonely man in a lonely world spending too much time on his computer. Then he purchases Samantha, a new AI Operating System with a fun personality and a sexy voice, which leads to him spending too much time ON his computer. It's a real situationship between Man & Machine, in a world...
Jan 10, 2024
Last week set the stage, this week we dive deep. Ancient sumerian myths, the bicameral mind, sword fights, and some suuuuper problematic sex stuff. We talk about it, we hash it out, some of it we really love, some of it we viscerally hate, but that's Snow Crash for ya. Thanks, once again, to Geoff from...
Jan 3, 2024
I don't even know where to start on a summary of Snow Crash. Basically imagine a book about what the world's biggest dork would think was cool. That's a start. This book contains multitudes, good and bad, so we are giving it two parts. The first one sets the scene, describes the world, and introduces the...