The best way to understand the broken, crazed, indulgent filmography of the Wachowski’s is as a quest to make the Matrix movie the Matrix would never make. Time. Is money. And in the cold unfeeling eyes of Hollywood a “movie” is just a business strategy to convert two hours of your time into shareholder value.Continue reading “The Matrix is the movie the Matrix makes to keep you in the Matrix”
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Jupiter Ascending SCRIPT PREVIEW
So. Why. WHY. Have I written a 5000 word script about the Wachowski’s worst movie? It’s not to make fun of Mila Kunis non-acting, although rest assured, fun is made. Or Sean Bean cashing a big cheque for what is, even for him, an epicly lazy performance. Or the brown sludge CGI that is 78%Continue reading “Jupiter Ascending SCRIPT PREVIEW”
Star Trek ain’t woke. It’s corporate.
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Starfleet 90210
Well, it’s been too long since I was last cancelled 🤣 Despite the title this is less a commentary on Starfleet 90210 AKA Star Trek : Hogwarts Academy then on Nu-Trek at large And the relenetless It’s Woke / It Was Always Woke debate. Comments on the doc but I’m shooting in about 8 hoursContinue reading “Starfleet 90210”
America forgot that Judge Dredd is a *satire* of fascism
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They want to make DUNE real
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Where did the future go?
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Why are right-wing grifters all like Batman villains?
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Ursula K Le Guin banned in Russia
Ursula K. Le Guin has always been the GOAT of speculative fiction, the kind of writer who rewired how we think about society. But as of late 2025, she’s achieved a new level of clout: getting personally targeted by the FSB. Vladimir Putin just did the one thing guaranteed to make a 1969 sci-fi cultContinue reading “Ursula K Le Guin banned in Russia”
Joker Right SCRIPT PREVIEW
Sometimes a video essay script needs a final stage of work – to secure it against the Almighty Algorithm. Our new robo-censors can’t tell the difference between actual Nazis and critique of Nazis. Also people love to clip critiques of racism out of context to make the critic look racist. So I have to findContinue reading “Joker Right SCRIPT PREVIEW”
The Avatar franchise is empty spectacle
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The Epstein / Kubrick theory is worse than you think
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