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Weekend Roundtable: Virtualitosity

Josh Zyber — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 17:00:46 +0000

Perhaps the most far-fetched thing in ‘Ready Player One’ is the idea that people in the future will actually give a damn about Virtual Reality. That hasn’t proven to be true in real life so far. Nevertheless, here are some memorable depictions of it – both good and bad – from movies and TV. Brian...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of June 18th, 2017 – Sweet, Too Short, Like a Box of Chocolates… Choose Your Own Pun

Josh Zyber — Mon, 19 Jun 2017 12:00:49 +0000

No exciting blockbusters on Blu-ray this week, sadly. The biggest release of the week was a box office bomb. The few interesting new discs available are arty or cult catalog titles. New Releases ‘Life‘ – From the generic title, this could be either a big screen spinoff of the BBC nature documentary series, an adaptation...

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Weekend Roundtable: Dumbest Use of Computers in Movies & TV

Josh Zyber — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 19:00:09 +0000

When it comes to the depiction of computers or the internet in movies and TV, Hollywood screenwriters almost universally have no concept at all of what computers do or how they work. Pretty much any time you see a computer in a movie or TV show, it does something ridiculous, illogical or flagrantly impossible. In...

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