Movies & Anime
Review: Black Mirror – ‘White Christmas’
It wasn’t clear whether or not this particular special of Black Mirror would be aired. Brooker, the showrunner, had expressed wanting to take a hiatus from the show in the past. In fact, it was the ca...
Review: Orphan Black – Season 1
Pushing against the dearth of sci-fi television in most markets, and premiering just a few months before the disastrous Almost Human, Orphan Black should’ve failed just after the pilot aired. However,...
Connected: A Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland
What is it that draws you to the Cyberpunk genre? This is a question I ask myself at least a dozen times every year since I first saw Johnny Mnemonic when I was around ten years old. Did I see any Cyb...
Review: 12 Monkeys – Atari
Cole’s reluctance to open up to Railly puts a strain on their relationship in the present as they search for the “Night Room” before the 12 Monkeys use Goines to get there first. In 2032, a younger Co...
Haphead: A Modern Cyberpunk Webseries
What happens when you can plug yourself into a virtual reality game and hone real muscle memory at an accelerated rate? That is the central question that Haphead poses. The web-series was developed in...
Review: Black Mirror – Season 2
Taking an odd turn, the second season of Black Mirror features less high-tech scenarios than its predecessors, but Brooker’s focus is still centered on the social implications of social order gone ask...
Review: 12 Monkeys – “Cassandra Complex”
After training Railly in the basics of using a handgun, fearing the men who’d kidnapped Jennifer could come after her, she’s called by police who want to know what happened at JD Peoples. As Railly gi...
Review: The Machine
What happens when we cease to fight our own wars? This isn’t a question of privatization through private military companies, but more a question on technological progression and the guarantee of safet...
Review: Black Mirror – Season 1
Disclaimer: This is a review filled with spoilers. Black Mirror is the modern-world’s answer to the analysis of the social and human conditions of Western life brought to us by The Twilight Zone in de...