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Blade Runner (1982) was set in November 2019. Yes, progress has been a bit slow. Blade Runner got one thing very right -- the two mos...

The Brexit movie, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Dominic Cummings, is really good. I was able to watch it online for free:  Channel 4 ...

This Hollywood oral history tells the story of Richard Linklater's "Before" Trilogy: Before Sunrise, Before Sunset , and Bef...

Hassabis refers to AI in the original Blade Runner, but it is apparent from the sequel that replicants are merely genetically engineered h...

The Loveless (free now on Amazon Prime ) was the first film directed by Kathryn Bigelow (Point Break, Zero Dark Thirty) and also the fir...

Author Bret Easton Ellis, Christian Bale (Patrick Bateman), and Director Mary Herron discuss American Psycho. This is a rare 1999 docum...

Arrival is based on a short story by Ted Chiang :  Story of Your Life . Despite what some have said, the main plot idea (as I remember f...

https://www.podcastone.com/episode/B.E.E.---Paul-Schrader---10/17/16-1685639 Highly recommended to readers with literary or cinematic inte...

Gizmodo : According to Ridley Scott’s 34-year-old (!!!) scifi classic Blade Runner, January 8th, 2016, is the day the replicant designate...

Eighties forever! :-)

I watched this on the flight back from Asia. It's a kid movie but it operates at more than one level. The girl robot Athena is really fu...

An oral history of Swingers (Grantland). Jon Favreau (Mike):  When I set out to write  Swingers , I didn’t know I was even writing a ...

I just caught Oblivion on cable -- it's visually stunning. The Skytower or glass house was shot in a very interesting way, as shown in t...

Can't quite decide whether this is a dystopian or utopian future  :-) New Yorker ...Spike Jonze’s movie, which was shot in Los Ange...

Hollywood Reporter : Fox Searchlight has optioned The New York Times feature The Professor, the Bikini Model and the Suitcase Full of Troub...

This is a beautiful but difficult movie. You can watch it right now on Google Play . Interview with director Cate Shortland. See also B...

I finally got to see it over the weekend. Re: plot, there is a way to interpret the story that actually hangs together (suspension of disbel...

This New Yorker piece describes the Wachowskis' adaptation of Cloud Atlas , coming soon to a theatre near you. In an earlier post I w...

I'm really looking forward to this  prequel  (sort of) to Alien. It promises to reveal the secret of the space jockey :-) You'...

I can't believe they shot this for only $3.5 million. A lot of star power for such a tiny budget. NYTimes review .