John Carpenter - They Live

Remembering John Carpenter’s "They Live"Do any of the great movie fight scenes stick in the memory as much as Nada taking on Frank in an alleyway in 1988's They Live? Is Roddy Piper and Keith David’s epic fight scene in John Carpenter’s They Live the greatest of all time? Granted, there have been some epic one on ones over the years: Neo versus Agent Smith in The Matrix, Indiana Jones versus The German Mechanic in Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Bruce Lee versus Han in Enter the Dragon. But do a...

Robot Dreams

Pablo Berger’s "Robot Dreams" might be created via simple animation in terms of the details of the anthropomorphic characters, but it doesn’t lack detail within the environment the film is set in. The opening scene alone showcases Dog’s loneliness as he heats up Mac and Cheese for dinner and sits down on his sofa. Meanwhile, in the background, we see a couple (a giraffe and a hippo) sitting down in their apartment opposite to watch a sitcom to finish their dinner. This occurs before Dog notic...

Telecom history

Introduction This is a book about cops, and wild teenage whiz-kids, and lawyers, and hairy-eyed anarchists, and industrial technicians, and hippies, and high-tech millionaires, and game hobbyists, and computer security experts, and Secret Service agents, and grifters, and thieves. This book is about the electronic frontier of the 1990s. It concerns activities that take place inside computers and over telephone lines. A science fiction writer coined the useful term "cyberspace" in 1982. ...

Film at Lincoln Center Announces Jordan Peele Curation - Broadway World

Film at Lincoln Center announces The Lost Rider: A Chronicle of Hollywood Sacrifice, from January 5-14. Widely hailed as one of this century's great directorial debuts, Jordan Peele's era-defining Get Out injected new life into horror with its witty subversion of racial politics and elitist social mores. Two years later, his wildly entertaining Us plumbed everything from isolationist fears and late-capitalist power structures to the rich lineage of the doppelgänger motif and home-invasio...

1980s Sci-fi Movies That Did and Did not Age Well

Given how quickly the world of science and technology evolves, it comes as no surprise that science fiction over the decades has transformed just as quickly. And, while most people might expect sci-fi films from the 80s to seem incredibly dated, there are actually a number of greats that still hold up really well. RELATED: 15 Scariest Episodes Of The Twilight Zone, Ranked But obviously, not every movie becomes a classic. For every unforgettable 80s movie, there is another that aud...

Year of the Month: Roland Saint-Laurent on LOOK WHO’S TALKING

Part of the late ’80s mini-wave of baby movies, which includes 1987’s Baby Boom and Three Men and a Baby, and 1989’s long-awaited Ghostbusters 2, Look Who’s Talking is, for my money, the most tolerable of the bunch thanks to writer-director Amy Heckerling’s script, which has some solid jokes and manages to avoid being overly cutesy given the premise. The story concerns single mother Mollie (Kirstie Alley), her son Mikey, and cab driver/part-time pilot/general loser James (John Travolta, in hi...

Spy Novel Meets The Twilight Zone - The standardization of demoralization procedures