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SXSW Interview: UPGRADE and the impending A.I.-Pocalypse

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Leigh Whannell, the writer behind the SAW and INSIDIOUS franchises, certainly knows how to scare the hell out of us. Despite that, nothing he has made seems so utterly frightening as his latest effort (his second as director), UPGRADE, which made its world premiere at SXSW. Set in the not so distant future where technology runs our lives (i.e. next week), the action SciFi … [Read more...]

PhxFF Interview: THE SHELLS and the Choreography of Dreams

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I love a good horror film, and if that horror film comes tinged with a SciFi plot, even better. And if it’s all done on an indie budget, I’m ready to sing it’s praises to anyone ready to listen. Such a film is Max Finneran’s THE SHELLS, which I saw world premiere at the Phoenix Film Festival. Filmed entirely inside an exceptionally unnerving decommissioned Kodak factory in … [Read more...]

SNOWPIERCER: This Train Keeps A Rollin’ With No Way To Slow Down

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The most unbelievable aspect of writer/director Bong Joon-ho’s SciFi action film SNOWPIERCER may be that governments actually did something to counteract global warming. In the film, the flooding of Earth with a chemical designed to reduce the temperature plunges the world into sub-polar conditions, creating a new ice age that eliminates almost all life on the planet. The sole … [Read more...]

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