Shooting blanks: “Street Kings”
What kind of movie is Street Kings? It’s the kind of movie that thinks that a couch would offer reasonable protection against submachine-gun fire. It’s the kind of movie which spends its first act...
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The original (and still classic) The Day the Earth Stood Still was intended to be a corrective to all those sci-fi movies that had held scientific progress up as the world’s new theology. While...
View ArticleIn the 1990’s the future was really lame: “Johnny Mnemonic”
Okay, now this film is instructive indeed. It shows us a glimpse of a very specific moment in time—1995, in fact—when the world arrived at the intersection of science and culture. It was the moment...
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