High-Def Digest: The Bonus ViewDave Eggers Archives - High-Def Digest: The Bonus View https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/tag/dave-eggers/ A High-Def Digest Blog Wed, 13 May 2020 15:26:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 ‘The Circle’ Review: A Tech-No-No Thriller https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/circle-movie-review/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/circle-movie-review/#respond Fri, 28 Apr 2017 15:00:04 +0000 Philip Brown http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=84582 ‘The Circle’ is one of those 10-minutes-in-the-future satirical thrillers that can cause queasy unease with their prescient commentary (i.e. the ‘Black Mirror’ effect). Unfortunately, it’s not a particularly good one. There are great ideas at the core, some fantastic sequences, and committed movie star performances that suggest everyone sincerely wanted this to work. But it...

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