Tag: review

  • Hundreds of Beavers

    Hundreds of Beavers

    Sometimes you may watch a film that is a work of art. A deep sea of metaphor and symbolism. A replication of the human experience. Kino. And Hundreds of Beavers is such a film. It is the story of Jean Kayak, an applejack maker who likes far too much of his own product. Everything is…

  • Blade Runner 2049

    There is a serious question about automation that disquiets us. If robots replace humans, how does this change us, the humans and our society? There’s an upside, certainly; humans no longer work terrible jobs that robots now ceaselessly toil over. The downside, a variable quantity of humans no longer paid or occupied by the terrible…

  • Valerian and the Blah Blah Blah

    Valerian and the Blah Blah Blah

    Let me get straight to the meat of this review. The main problem with Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, is that there is far too little of the City of a Thousand Planets. In fact, it should have been called Valerian and Laureline. Because that’s what the film really focused on. In…

  • Ghost in the Shell (2017)

    Going to the live action, western adaptation of Ghost In The Shell, had my expectations set so low, that within the first five minutes of the film, all I could be was disappointed. I was armed to the teeth with arguments about failing to live up to the original manga and the 1995 anime, when…

  • Zine Swag

    Zine Swag

    So a couple of weeks back I had picked up a few zines from both the MCA and Other World’s zine fairs. Archonic It’s an architecture/design mag put together by students, by the looks of things. The design of the magazine has all the elements that are in vogue; photos dissected by simple geometries, large…

  • Lucy

    Once again, my friend Mark and I trapse down to the cinema, at my suggestion, to check out Lucy, the new Luc Besson “Philosophical Thriller” at where the eponymous Lucy, played by Scarlett Johannson, gains access to “more then 10 percent of her brain”. Just read that link, cause it’s a popular myth. But when…

  • Zine Reviews

    So once again, it’s that time to do another zine round-up over my purchases from the Other World Zine Fair and the MCA Zine Fair from the other week. James Jirat Patradoon Art Book Last year, I got some stickers by James, when I bought Oishi The Tastiest Man Alive. The book is cover to…

  • Zine Reviews Part Two

    Zine Reviews Part Two

    So over the last two weeks I collected a lot of zines. Normally I go for a longer review process, but I’m pressed for time. So here goes. I picked these up while not minding my table at the Canberra Zine Emporium’s Zine Fair. Dead Red A re-telling of Red Riding Hood, illustrated by David…

  • SpaceBed 9000

    SpaceBed 9000 Elysium is everything that District 9 is not. The obvious message of Universal Health Care that appears in the form of magic SpaceBeds that heal any and all illness. It’s also meant to be about the distribution of wealth as well, I guess, since the hyper-rich apparently all live on this torus ring…