Floating in the Dark with Paddy

|Kevin Obsatz| How do you go from Network to Altered States?  According to a biography about the screenwriter of both films, Paddy Chayefsky (Mad As Hell by Paddy Considine), it sounds like life in New York in the mid-1970s was about as good as it can possibly get for… Continue reading

You Can Always Get Another One: A.I. Artificial Intelligence

Haley Joel Osment’s David is viewed through thick, undulating glass that distorts and doubles his image—showing each of his features, notably his eyes, half a dozen times.

|Timothy Zila| Those were the years after the ice caps had melted because of the greenhouse gases, and the oceans had risen to drown so many cities along all the shorelines of the world. Millions of people were displaced. Climates became chaotic. Governments introduced… Continue reading