“Win and all your dreams come true. Lose, you die.” Welcome to The God Game, where Danny Tobey delves into the dark side of artificial intelligence and tests the boundaries of human morality. While fiddling around with an internet chatbot…
10 Great Books for Jane Austen Book Lovers
Emma. Pride and Prejudice. Persuasion. Jane Austen has created some pretty awesome and swoon-worthy stories. And we love it when authors take these classics and create new stories. Inspired by Austen’s works or Austen herself, so many retellings have provided…
Movie Review: Flatliners
One of humanity’s biggest unanswered questions is, “What happens after we die?” Do we go to a heaven-like paradise or are we doomed to stay in the ground for eternity? Out of all of the unnecessary sequels and remakes, Flatliners…
Interview: Casey Griffin and Nina Nesseth on ‘The Science of Orphan Black: The Official Companion’
Almost a month has passed since Orphan Black signed off for the last time with its series finale. Since then, there’s been a serious lack of clone drama and Cosima science quips filling our lives. But, if you’re like me…
Children of Men: 10 Year Anniversary
Children of Men is the dystopic study of societal collapse, revolts, terrorism, class structure and urban decay with its only through-line being the chaos stringing them together. However, the emergence of a pregnant young woman, in a future where the…
Why Star Wars Needs To Be Political
There are very few things in my childhood that I remember as vividly as watching the opening to A New Hope. The scene is a near perfect example of how to world build by simply allowing that world to exist.…
Movie Review: Independence Day: Resurgence
Since Independence Day became a massive commercial hit Roland Emmerich seems to have consistently invented new ways to fetishize the end of the world. Indeed he does a good enough job capturing an apocalyptic spectacle of carnage and destruction but,…