‘An Insignificant Man’ in the Animal Farm
As a documentary film, An Insignificant Man delivers a very rich, dramatic and in parts tragic portrayal of a political movement in India. Offering a great insight into the process of idealism being ...
My Thoughts on Leonardo DiCaprio’s ‘Before the Flood’
I saw Leonardo Di Caprio’s documentary for National Geographic called Before the Flood. All in all the message is good. I’m not in the denial camp nor the global change hysteria camp. ...
Sci-Fi Film ‘Terminus’ Includes UFO’, Men in Black, Nuclear War and More
This film has received very bad ratings on IMDB and that's probably because it hints at many references people don't get. Things that make an decent film more relative to our current ...
Sci-Fi Anime ‘Psycho-Pass’ & Why are Anime Characters White or European Looking?
The other week on a discussion on how a transhumanist future would evolve and be like for its citizens, a commentator recommended Psycho-Pass. So I looked it up and thought, oh no, not anime ...
Oblivion – Sci-Fi Dystopia & Love Through Reincarnation
The film Oblivion by Joseph Kosinski had passed under my radar for the three years it’s been out. I finally saw it and really found it to be a relevant film, regarding ...
Wondrous Boccaccio – A Must Watch For All Medievalists
The annual Göteborg Film Festival has began for 2016 with over 450 films to choose from all in all. Every year they have a focus, this years it's on Italy so there's ...
Star Trek Continues – Vic Mignogna as Captain Kirk leads the crew on new journeys!
For all lovers of Star Trek the original series this show will blow your tricorders! Star Trek Continues is the continuation of the original series time line. The stage set is so ...
Kytice – en drömsk mytologiskt vågad absurd värld
Kytice från 2000 är en tjeckisk film som är uppdelad i några klassiska tjeckiska berättelser skrivna av Karel Jaromír Erben. Det som på pappret skulle te sig som enkelspåriga berättelser i stil ...
Telepathy and mind control from the film ‘Brainstorm’
I just watched an almost forgotten sci-fi classic called Brainstorm. The story is about advanced research on telepathy and mind control that evolves into a secret black operation within the military industrial ...
Windy day on the coast
The place where the ocean wind meets the land, the place where things sparkle och the wind spares no one. https://youtu.be/uCNirA9tdrQ Always take what you have and do something of it. Zoom lenses for ...
Reinhold Messner & Hans Kammerlander in Werner Herzog’s cinematic world
In the Dark Glow of the Mountains (Gasherbrum - Der Leuchtende Berg) we get the maximum of German ingenuity, like the music of Popol Vuh, Werner Herzog's cinematic vision and two legendary ...
Ex Machina and the threat of artificial intelligence
We've had some films about artificial intelligence and singularity from the past years like Automata, Transcendence, Her and so on - Ex Machina continues along that track. All these movies have the same ...
‘Remake, Remix, Rip-Off’ på Göteborg Film Festival
Hur skulle en filmindustri som vill ta ut svängarna men saknar resurser lyckas få till det? Innan internet och höghastighetsbredband erbjöd material i överflöd? Lyckligtvis var copyright regleringen bortblåst med vinden förut ...
Maggie McOmie in the Sci-Fi Film THX 1138
Recently I watched the sci-fi film THX 1138 from 1971 by George Lucas and produced by Francis Ford Coppola. It's a dystopia in the Orwellian sense and has the typical 'one person ...
Interstellar and the secret space program
I won't rate the film here or go through scientific glitches, nor talk about the acting. I'll just go through some historical symbolism in the film. Hints that refer directly to historical ...
‘They Live’ by John Carpenter & ‘Nada’ Comic by Ray Nelson
The film that time has caught up with. They Live (1988) is a fantastic sci-fi film that in extremely many ways foresaw the future and explains at least the rough concept of what is ...
Automata film review “When the dialogue stops”
The film offers no groundbreaking take or vision about the future of artificial intelligence. Yet films like Automata and Transcendence, keep the topic alive in the mainstream so to speak. Offering updates ...