Film
‘I love you Big Brother’: A Review of 1984 (film)
‘If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.’ – George Orwell, 1949. I’ve been wanting to write this for a long, long time now. Ever since I’d written my...
‘You have nowhere to go’: A Review of George Lucas’ THX 1138
When I discuss my writing, I speak about the writings of Orwell, specifically his novel 1984. I’ve always been partial to dreary texts coated with misery. I’ve always enjoyed the non-ending, or the la...
‘This is no game’: A Review of The Running Man
It has been a long week. After the disappointment that was Ghost in the Shell, I had to perk myself up with a classic—The Running Man. Directed by Paul Michael Glaser, The Running Man rounds off my re...
A Brief Overview of the Ghost in the Shell VR Diver; ‘She’s incredible math’
It is officially Ghost in the Shell month, and though this short trailer has been out for a little while, I thought that it would be prudent to perhaps shine a bit of a light on the GITSchannel’s VR ...
A Brief Overview of ESCAPE CODE for VR; ‘We are here to help’
A fan of awesome mid-80’s/90’s science fiction? Techy-savvy enough to own a VR headset (cheap cardboard’s fine if that’s your thing!)? If so, jack into the net and follow me through the ephemeral wiri...
‘You can’t make me quit’: A Review of Rollerball
Rollerball is one of those special films that needs no introduction. The music. The violence. The macabre and miserable atmosphere. Unlike Death Race 2000, Rollerball contains an ethereality that perm...
Cinepunk from Korea to Japan
Many have made light (or should that be neon-light?) of the fact that modern-day Japan and its neighboring countries actually come close to what was envisioned by cyberpunk cinema and literature all t...
‘Scoring isn’t killing Mr Frankenstein, it’s a part of the race’: A Review of Death Race 2000
Though the late seventies is famously known for producing Star Wars IV: A New Hope, earlier SF films in the decade were often dark, grisly and grim stories that were partly inspired by the current pol...
The Automaton Sequence: 5.0: ‘It’s in your nature to destroy yourselves’; The Human as Machine
‘We are all chimeras, theorised and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs.’ Donna Haraway, pp. 158 As the Automaton Sequence comes to an end, I wish to end on a bang; to...