Blade Runner

“Reminiscence” is a drink gone flat and lukewarm, a mood Joy lets percolate.

“A Glitch in the Matrix” is a fun, mind-blowing watch that allows one’s mind to wander into the inconceivable. So, what if we are living in a simulation?

Even if CD Projekt Red is able to fix all the glaring technical issues in Cyberpunk 2077, it will always be a shining beacon of everything wrong with the video game industry.

Pitt’s lead performance is tremendously rigorous in its stiff, rehearsed motion and assured decision-making, but his eyes reveal a heart-shredding vulnerability underlying his actions.

When the time comes to “burn for America again," it is to burn an amalgamation of hard drives and hard covers, depicting the film’s blending of old and new.

"Tranquility" is an album that sticks impressively to its visual narrative — one set in of a Jean-Pierre Melville-inspired jazz club.

In a widely-ranging discussion of sci-fi texts of the past and present, UC Berkeley lecturer Emily Carpenter and professor Namwali Serpell articulate representations of race and gender, discuss the ways that sci-fi reflects contemporary politics and offer interpretations of popular films.

It makes sense, perhaps, that the first short story Dick ever sold in 1953 was entirely based on the utterly mundane situation of a Berkeley neighbor’s dog barking at the garbage man.

“Blade Runner 2049” gradually crescendos from dark, quiet dystopian drama to an epic sci-fi phenomenon, and it provides a captivating experience for audiences along the way.

Somehow, all of this could have been forgiven — and, dare I say, enjoyed — if the film actually leaned into its campiness.