REVIEW: Foe (2023)
Tense, emotional climate science-fiction that doesn't quite come together by Kevin Fox, Jr. This piece was written during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. Without the labor of the actors currently on strike, the film being covered here wouldn't exist. Foe is a psychological thriller
We’re Similar. We’re Compatible. We’re Perfect.
Chatbots are the ideal digital paramour—until they want something back by Becca Young This is normal for us, because we’re not different. We’re similar. We’re compatible. We’re perfect. 😁 This is normal for us, because we’re in love. We’re in love, and we’re
They’re Not Going to Make You an Immortal Internet God
Uploading your brain isn't eternal life. At best, it's death—and at worst, everlasting exploitation. by Norbert Daniels Jr. // Illustration by Carly A-F What does it mean to put your brain in a computer? When viewed in a criminally oversimplified way,
Strange Days In Cupertino
Memory, imagery, and truth in today's consumerized digital unreal by Christine Gerardi // Illustration by Carly A-F I 'll never forget the launch of the first-generation iPod Nano. Live on stage in 2005, Steve Jobs pulled a tiny white rectangle from the
(Cyber)Punk is Dead
by Molly Noise "The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed." William Gibson, The Economist, December 4, 2003 The above is untrue. Search online and you’ll certainly find plenty of citations on extracted-from-context-quotes-from-generally-regarded-as-clever-people sites, but there is no issue of The
Interoperability Won’t Save Us. But It Might Help.
Cory Doctorow's pro-interoperability treatise is a welcome salvo in the battle for the internet, but its reach exceeds its grasp by Kurt Schiller The Internet Con: How To Seize The Means Of Computation is a short, sharp strike from the
DIY Art-Punk Video Tape Transgression
The Ugly, Inspiring Shot-On-Video Horror of Charles Pinion by Josh Lewis One of the major drivers of the undying affection for low-budget and independent genre/exploitation cinema is its historical value as a space for artists on the margins of
The Voyeur of Utter Destruction (As Beauty)
The Spectacle of carnage in Game of Thrones and Shin Godzilla by Sean T. Collins Spectacle is the language through which art communicates when the vocabulary of the everyday fails us. Fantastic fiction, an inherent trafficker in the unreal, says as much
REVIEW: Suitable Flesh Pays Demonic Tribute to a Grandmaster of Goop
Joe Lynch channels the late, great Stuart Gordon for a bout of Lovecraftian psychosexual horror by Cian Tsang It’s felt for a while now as if there’s been a blight metastasizing through the horror genre, threatening to destroy so much
Dream Demon: Between Fantasy and Nightmare
Harley Cokeliss's 1988 horror-fantasia straddles the line between art and exploitation, with profound results by Cian Tsang When Spencer, Pablo Larraín’s opulent imagining of the existential crisis of Princess Diana, floated onto the big screen back in 2021, much of the