Ralph Breaks The Internet Has One Trick Ralph Breaks the Internet is a movie that knows how to do one thing and not the other. The plot’s not great. While video game characters doing a fetch quest is a perfect metatextual idea, it’s not all that engaging as a story. Most of the challenges arise from…
Mr. Robot Is A Rather Polarizing Show Mr. Robot is a show with an odd style to it. Brilliant, but boring. Evocative and yet slow. The best show I have trouble keeping my attention on for long stretches. Because, the storytelling, and even the pacing of the show, tells you one major thing: you are…
If you love video games, you (or your kids) can learn to code EASY by playing video games! Legion by Lenovo and Lenovo Game State are sponsoring a month long sweepstakes called Code & Play designed to encourage teens, kids and adults to learn coding. Coding is an awesome skill to learn. Even a small amount…
Directed by Michael Mann. Written by Morgan David Foehl. Starring Chris Hemsworth, Tang Wei, Wang Leehom, Viola Davis and Yorick van Wageningen. R, 133 minutes. A view of the Earth as sketchily connected lines, instead of water and landmass, begins Michael Mann’s new cyber thriller. This stark image precedes the action, which involves the potential…
With a camera and voice recording device, GPS locator, barcode scanning capability, and access to the internet, anyone with a smart phone can gather a lot of information. To someone who has seen The Dark Knight, the recent Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Minority Report, watches Person of Interest, or has experienced any number of…
Tomorrow, a very promising adventure led by the one and only Johnny Depp will be released: Transcendence, a new sci-fi thriller from the mind of Wally Pfister (this being his directing debut). The film follows a group of scientists who are trying to create the first self-aware supercomputer. The mastermind behind this project is Depp’s character,…
