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Interstellar
The most prominent problems with Interstellar have already been capably discussed, so it’s not worth spending much time going back over them. The basic catastrophe scenario has more gaping holes than a...
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Web Junkie
This documentary movie is superb. It has China, cyberpunk saturation, metaphysics, horror, humor, and the most extreme immersion in absolute sarcasm as a strategy of elusive dissidence ever realized in...
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Singapore Airlines is awesome to a preposterous degree — a fact that might feed into the recent outburst of reactionary curmudgeonry about mass air travel (which I need to track down). It was an...
View ArticleEdge of Tomorrow
(Also via Singapore Airlines.) Edge of Tomorrow is science fiction Groundhog Day, agreed. (It would make no sense to contest this, some scenes achieve near-perfect isomorphy.) Derivative, then,...
View Article2014 Lessons (#1)
The world war is Bitcoin versus Dugin. Everything else is just messing around (or, perhaps, tactics).
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Horroristic practice: to seize the collapse of the world as the opportunity for an encounter with the Outside. Is this NRx? In all probability, no more than symbiotically. The occasion for tactical...
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Nightcrawler
All the stuff everyone else is saying is right. The Lou Bloom character is a creation of sheer genius, and Jake Gyllenhaal’s performance in the role is beyond superb. The movie edges right up to the...
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Mr. Turner
England’s greatest artist, as portrayed by Mike Leigh: Despite the depiction of Turner as a shambling, grunting, snorting orc — perhaps motivated by revolutionary class politics — the movie is not...
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Ex Machina
Half way through, and there’s already more than enough for an enthusiastic recommendation. (The utterly despicable Her already left twitching in the dust.) Will report back upon completion. (This...
View ArticleEnd 2015
May Gnon have a fortunate 2016 lined up for all you wretched sinners. 2015 has been intense, and deserves some considered retrospection here — but no way is it getting that now. Feel free to stick...
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