eXistenZ — Capital X, Capital Z. The game of games. Cronenberg’s bridge between the squishy-squeamy sex-pest films of his breakout career and the clinical, cool, under-the-knife approach of his later artistic period- and, above all else, an enormous lie. Jude Law and Jennifer Jason Leigh carry the plot as prime…

As it happened one of my wealthier friends was leaving town on short notice- something about a chemical plant in the northeast, poisonings perhaps, it sounded quite serious- and I was instructed to check on his property nightly. …

NOW, FOREVER, NEVER Every time I visit the St. Louis Cathedral Basilica, I am denied entry, due either to mass or- more often- matrimony. I tiptoe through the opening mosaic hall and view once and over again the golden, glittering acts of the zealous Louis IX, namesake of the city…

Eric Packer is dead, and we are his procession. We are as chilly of onlookers as Packer himself, at a camera angle just above and tilted down to his head, and the limousine is his coffin of choice. …

One of the more incisive things I’ve ever heard about Uber is that one minute of Uber worker time will always equal one minute of production time which will always equal one unit of consumer time (and time again). Of course this model is the same for a taxi but…

The literature-to-film pipeline has always been a lucrative field for Hollywood, now and in the past, but how a film is adapted has always been an engaging topic for me. I’m about to make an argument about the Wise Blood film adaptation (1979) that will be rather spoiler-heavy, but first…

This is the only important paragraph, so it is the first. — .@MeditationsOfMA is a Twitter bot I made that randomly tweets out short segments of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus’ personal thoughts and writings now known as the Meditations. I hope you like it. Background: Philosophy & History. Although it has become known in the modern era as one of the defining works of Stoicism due to…

from your dear Rosalind Goodbye, he says without a passing glance At what has struck me square between the eyes. Although I cannot blame him for the pass A little recognition would be nice. This image, which contains a final clue, Contributed and was their fierce ally. A crystallographer, indeed, it’s true ’Twas me on which the duo did rely. The cancer of my science did me in. Good work was done, yes, that I would admit. That single photo, “51”, and kin- Good Lord, how I was hes’tant to commit.

You are the desk clerk at an upscale hotel, owned by a very wealthy mathematician named David Hilbert. Hilbert’s Grand Hotel is known worldwide, and for good reason- its fame stems from its sumptuous lounge areas, excellent service, and the fact that is has infinitely many rooms. That’s correct, the…