Ex Machina

Ex Machina is a thoughtful and sensitive look into the world of synthetic humans and artificial intelligence (AI).

I noticed on Twitter recently that Artificial Sex Dolls are paving the way for this technology from an aesthetic/kinetic point of view and no doubt a superior chat bot AI is being developed to accompany this.

I have no doubt that the integration of humans with machines will become increasingly visible in my life time but I self identify as a primate so I'm happy to be a monkey wearing cotton underpants as Terence McKenna once memorably described us.

Most transhuman fetishists are frightened of dying in my experience. This is a spiritual problem with many answers to hand.

Constantine - 2005

Keanu Reeves acts as an exorcist and freelance occult consultant in this movie. I'm not a huge fan of Keanu, though his work isn't offensive and he has many solid movies under his belt. This is one of them.

The only thing worth knowing about the occult is that while we are programmed to scoff at it, the higher up the food chain a person climbs the more likely, no, the more unavoidable it is.

Edge of Tomorrow

Unlike most of his movies, I immediately warmed to this Tom Cruise playing an anti-hero character wishing to stay as far away from war as possible. This is a much more authentic stance than his usual military industrial complex peddling. 

The movie is fresh, well scripted and corresponds with my understanding of the many worlds theory mashed up with John Titor time travel lines.

This movie is Groundhog Day meets Hamburger Hill/Predator. It's the opposite of what I expected it to be in terms of Hollywood movie making and I couldn't have been further wrong. Watch it.