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400 DAYS (Matt Osterman, 2015)
400 Days is a true classic of the eerie, it makes it easily into my top 10 of the last years. I consider that it carries and brings to fruition the unspoken space program preparation doom of such Cold War era classics as Outer Limits or Twilight Zone. The weird is palpable – oozing, leaking…
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10 Cloverfield Lane (Dan Trachtenberg 2016)
Ever wonder what other new Stephen King books or stories are being brought to the big screen nowadays? Except of Cell (2016) I really dunno of anything. Another explanation may be the fact that this whole SK spirit has been spread out – absorbed by others nowadays. 10 Cloverfield Lane is a new mystery horror…
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The Man in the High Castle (TV series season 1&2 after 1962 book by Philip K Dick)
Arguably The Man in the High Castle is the TV series of a particular alternate moment in our history. It is as if the popularity this series enjoys is just one facet of a constant up-swell, not only a dilation of the Overton Window that now celebrates identity politics, but also a genuine ‘hyernormalization’ of nationalism, islamophobia,…
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Jackrabbit
When a friend’s suicide leaves behind a mysterious computer drive, a fringe hacker and an accomplished computer technician come together to decipher the message left in his wake. Strong on ambient the movie looks at a post technocalypse future were 80’s technology and access to information is more priceful than fuel.
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DREDD (2012)
No rest for the slow I will argue that the main purpose of Judges as principal law-enforcers in Mega City One, is the policing of the senses(apud Hito Steyerl, Empire of the senses). I am not just going to speak as the devil’s(read anti hero, criminal, sociopath of the future) advocate but try and figure…