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Summary Cyberpunk films are no stranger to presenting worlds where there are an abundance of options for escaping reality in favor of one more pleasant. In the future of...
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Warning: This post has spoilers. Is it a common place to say that David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis (2012) looks like Kathryn Bigelow’s Strange Days (1995)? Maybe not. I have...
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Sam Esmail broke the predictive model of summer cable shows with the psychological thriller Mr. Robot. Elliot Alderson is our hero, and from the first utterance of his shaky...
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Cyberpunk Beginnings… In 1986, Larry McCaffery interviewed William Gibson and he mentioned how Escape from New York had influenced his writing, “Yeah, like Escape from New York...
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In Mr. Robot’s New York, there’s a clear distinction between classes and the influence they hold in the disparate social circles they inhabit. Interlopers are quickly detected....
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Netflix has ordered a new series based on a dystopian pilot that was posted in three parts in 2011, entitled Three Porcento (Three Percent), based on the plot where people are...
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The new Terminator movie claimed to be the true successor to Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgement Day. So much so that even James Cameron said it was the real third film. I’m...
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In the proof-of-concept video Speedhack, you have the chance to check the work of Dylan J. Nathan, a British architecter who has been in a long journey through electronic...
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[Spoilers ahead. You’ve been warned.] Season 3 Summary Mrs. S handed Helena over to Paul in order to keep the US government away from the sisters. Not liking her twin taken,...
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Kung Fury is really a love note to 80s action movies. Much of the cyberpunk ascetic comes from this period and is well represented here. Kung Fury really only has cyberpunk...
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I took a long time to finally watch to Alex Garland’s debut film Ex Machina (2015), but when I was finally able to see it, I had so much high hopes that I ended up being a...
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Marco Ramirez, the new showrunner/writer of Marvel’s Daredevil Netflix original television series has been hired to write a screenplay for a live-action adaptation of the...
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In Brazil, there is this dilemma about national identity that was already the subject of several posts written by foreigners who lived here for some time. You can find tons of...
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“By 2085, ocean levels have risen to a point that entire coastal cities and islands have been submerged. On an island megalopolis, a genetic virus and cybernetic beings are...
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When I originally watched the trailer for Vice, I immediately thought this is what Westworld would look like if it had been an action movie. Now, having actually watched the...
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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...
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True Skin may have come out a few years ago, but it’s lasting impact on me is always somewhere when I watch other cyberpunk films. It takes place in the distant future where it...
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“Divine Move” perfectly presents what frustrates me most about 12 Monkeys as an expanded story and universe thus far: the presentation of compelling elements and their...
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Neill Blomkamp’s most recent movie, Chappie, is the successor of his previous films District 9 and Eylsium. Where District 9 was mostly about institutional apartheid, and...
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In “Tomorrow,” we see Cole surviving the early days of the plague in Ukraine before he’s spotted by the UN and handed over to the military that’s been hunting him. Soon he’s...