If you haven’t seen Blade Runner 2049, please do so as soon as you can. It’s a visual feast of a film. And be sure to see it in a cinema with a good sound system – the film has an astonishing sound design, one that pays homage to and builds on the groundbreaking work […]
Read more "Do Androids Dream of Electric Bleeps"Unlike Deckard, who just grudgingly went about his job and then drank to forget, only to realise at the end of Blade Runner that something was amiss, K feels he’s something special.
Read more "Special K: Blade Runner 2049"For all its incredible production design, the scenery is just that: scenery, a backdrop for the film’s characters that seems disconnected to the action in the foreground or the film’s plot.
Read more "Ghost in the Shell"The sequel to Blade Runner will be called Blade Runner 2049.
As a title, it’s a bit meh ( really, why didn’t they go with Blade Runnest?)
Read more "Blade Runner 2049"Movie Rob’s Genre Grandeur for January is sci-fi. Here’s a review of Blade Runner which I wrote a while back.
Read more "Blade Runner"Okay, yes, it’s also Elvis’s birthday. Today (January 8th, 2016) is Roy Batty’s Incept Date. Which leaves only one question: what do you get a Nexus 6 for his birthday?
Read more "Happy Birthday, Roy Batty"It is hampered by an unoriginal plot and an unevenness of tone, and it borrows from so many genres I am not sure if it knows what sort of film it wants to be.
Read more "Routine Robotics: Automata"The film has a dark, grungy futuristic look and some cool visual effects. It’s a by-now standard dystopic vision of the future. Most of the planet is in ruins and uninhabitable. It seems to be almost always night and pissing rain, there are hover-cars, a disco-red light district, neon kanji and a surfeit of Asians: it’s “Blade Runner” for Dummies.
Read more "Sorry, I’ve forgotten. What’s the film called? Total Recall (DVD review)"From the Willesden Herald
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