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Reaching the Truth with Blade Runner 4: Eye and Talon
One experimental, dangerous, and possibly-illegal medical procedure that allows me to download digital information directly into my brain later, I’ve done it. I’ve gotten through the last ...
A Cyberpunk’s Take on Drug Culture
We’ve seen a lot of changes in 2018, many of them for the worse. There are constant reminders that the shadow of corporate and governmental fascism hangs over us. Technological anxiety grows as automa...
‘All dreams come to an end’: A Review of Total Recall (1990)
Re-watching Paul Verhoeven’s Total Recall feels like a breath of canned air from the early nineties. A hulking protagonist, copious amounts of violence, snappy one-liners, dramatically evil villains, ...
I Read the Blade Runner Sequel Novel, So You Don’t Have To
In anticipation of the long-awaited follow-up to the genesis of the cyberpunk genre that nobody is watching for whatever reason, I learned of K.W. Jeter’s three novelized sequels to one of the m...
Harsh Reality: Iain Marcks Distracts From Social Decay With VR Thriller
Harsh Reality, the latest short film by writer-director Iain Marcks and Energeia Films, wants viewers to soothe their anxiety away and grin until depression is a faint memory. Ignoring the world and a...
The Man in the High Castle: Season 1 Review
As a New Yorker, born, raised, likely microchiped to prevent me from leaving the city, I’m no stranger to seeing alternate versions of places around me. New York is always the city in the movie ...
Grendel’s Rebellious Electronic Music
Starting back in 1997, the aggrotech/dark electro Dutch band Grendel was named after the beast in the Anglo-Saxon tale Beowulf. That’s where the folk inspiration ends – the group, headed b...