Tag: Alicia Vikander

Review: Tomb Raider (2018)

Well, could it be “third times the charm” for the Tomb Raider franchise? It’s the third film in the series and filmmakers have added academy award winner Alicia Vikander as the lead in 2018’s Tomb Raider. Not unlike the last few games in their series, Lara Croft has been given the big-screen make over. Gone are

Read More »
SventhSonBanner
Movie Issues
Leland Pierce

Movie Issues: Seventh Son

This week the crew gets down and dirty and goes on adventure with the 2015 fantasy flick, Seventh Son. The movie where Julianne Moore plays the queen of evil witches, who escapes the pit she was imprisoned in by professional monster hunter, Jeff Bridges, decades ago. He must hunt her down and destroy her before she

Read More »
LostInSciFiHeader2020
Lost in Sci Fi
Leland Pierce

Lost In Sci-Fi Special: Ex Machina

You can listen to this episode on our Lost In Sci-Fi channel at Anchor.fm! This week we devote our whole episode to the Oscar nominated film, Ex Machina, the movie where a young programmer is selected to participate in a ground-breaking experiment in synthetic intelligence by evaluating the human qualities of a breath-taking humanoid A.I. But

Read More »
ManfromUNCLEBanner
Movie Issues
Leland Pierce

Review: The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

In a year that is rather heavy with the spy genre flicks; Spy, Kingsmen: The Secret Service, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation and, this Christmas, the latest James Bond film, how is one supposed to stand out from the other? Well, having the amazing Guy Ritchie as a director sure helps. His latest movie is The

Read More »
ex machina header
TV & Movies
Andrew Plein

Ex Machina – What is alive?

There are only a handful of films that I grant the title of “mind expanding,” even fewer that stand can stand the test of time. While Ex Machina certainly receives the title, I was more intrigued by the question it proposed. How do you go about testing artificial intelligence? More so, how do you determine

Read More »