A desperate bid to rediscover creativity
Ready Player One is a non-stop rush of pop culture references both visual and in the script. It's a movie about a hunt for Easter eggs that will itself be the subject of a hunt for all the Easter eggs it contains. That seems pretty meta. There's barely a frame or line that goes by… Continue reading Ready Player One: An overload of pop culture references
I saw Ex Machina on Friday, after waiting a while for it to be in wide enough release in my home town. Before getting to the spoilers, and there will be some , I wanted to say that I really enjoyed Ex Machina. It was the kind of science fiction that's a nice alternative to… Continue reading Ex Machina: reflections on the movie
In just over a week I've seen three movies. And all three have been well worth the price of admission. First up was X-Men: Days of Future Past, the first of two time travel movies I saw. I never read the original comic book version of this story, so I can't comment on its faithfulness,… Continue reading Movies, movies, movies
Dispatches from Obscurity 