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When I first saw the teaser trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, I knew it was a movie that I wanted to see. It was a simple trailer in terms of special effects and action, but it spoke deeply and directly to the audience. When the first trailer came out, there was very little information on …
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I finally decided to sit down and watch Spoke Jonze’s newest movie, Her. In case you haven’t seen the trailer or heard about the movie, Her is basically a science-fiction romance, where a man falls in love with his Artificial Intelligent Operating System. What you would expect to be some sort of comedy is, at …
After watching the latest Hunger Games movie, Catching Fire, one of the many things I began wondering was “How did 12 Districts come to be?” For those who aren’t familiar with the Hunger Games Trilogy (don’t worry, I haven’t read any of the books), the nation of Panem is a dystopian North America divided into …
Decaying ruins consumed by vegetation, buckling roads littered with broken-down cars, bomb-blasted wastelands under a polluted sky – remnants of a once thriving technological civilization, now monuments to that civilization’s downfall. These images are becoming all too familiar in today’s society, not because they are the scenes we see when we look out our windows, …
I once heard that the United Nations had appointed a scientist to be the Official Liaison for Outer Space Affairs. It was said that her job was to be the first contact in the event that an extraterrestrial species tried to make contact with Earth. Basically, she is the person that the aliens want to …
Music is a mysterious thing. It has the ability to express emotions and memories without using a single word. I guess that's why some people call it the universal language (or I guess you could consider math that). This quality is what attracts so many people to the study of music, the performance of music, …
What would be the first thing you'd say if you met yourself? Questions like this are posed in Another Earth, an Independent film that won the Alfred P. Sloan prize at the Sundance Film festival a year or two ago. I won't go deeply into the summary of the story (you can watch the trailer here, I've realized …
Hollywood's new thing is Fairy tales. I have to admit I didn't believe it at first, but I guess all signs pointed to it. There has a been a recent rise of fairy-tale like tv shows, from ABC's Once Upon A Time to NBC's Grimm and even Syfy's Neverland. Also, there was a new take on …
