My rating: **** imdb link I have no doubt that Inception will prove a bonanza for all those analytic philosophers churning out edited collections on analytic philosophy and popular culture over at Open Court. Let me propose a workable alternative title for the film to start them off: Descartes and Freud. The Final Showdown. Or, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘The Matrix’
Inception (2010)
Posted in film, Foucault, philosophy, science fiction/fantasy, tagged Borges, Descartes, Freud, Inception, Leonardo diCaprio, The Forbidden Planet, The Matrix on July 24, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Equilibrium (2002)
Posted in film, science fiction/fantasy, tagged Equilibrium, Fahrenheit 451, The Matrix on December 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My rating: *** Imdb link This film is a collection of science fiction clichés. The style is pure Matrix and the writers have gone the whole hog and recognised the long black coats of the heroes of The Matrix as priestly soutanes, calling their wearers Clerics. It is the job of the Clerics – Fahrenheit [...]
The Subtle Knife
Posted in novels, science fiction/fantasy, tagged Philip Pullman, Susan Hill, The Matrix, The Subtle Knife on December 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My rating: *** The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman My review I found this book a bit disappointing after the first one. It has taken me a while to analyse why. I think it is a combination of a number of things. First of all I’m not quite convinced by Pullman’s cosmology. Somehow it isn’t [...]
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