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• The Shores of Night
  ...a Change" (vt "The Shores of Night").''' ''Astounding'' June 1956. Coll. ''Caution! Inflammable!'' New York: Doubleday, 1975. Rpt. ''[[Human-Machines: An Anth CAUTION: "[[Sea Change]]" title not unique. [[Category: Fiction]]
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• The Adolescence of P-1
  ...e sympathize with the computer program doing at least a partial take-over. Caution: the backcover blurb on the 1985 edn. is misleading. Caution: "Out of This World" incorrectly assigns the work to Phyllis Gotlieb.
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• Archer Dreamland: "Auflösung"
  CAUTION: "Reveal" — the ''Auflösung'' (resolution) — revealed. Somewhat more serious CAUTION: Even fans of ''noir'' may find this episode upsetting, especially the kill
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• Computerworld
  ...e and a happy ending wherein the computer is reconciled to serving humans. Caution: Rather sexist for a 1983 work.[[Category: Fiction]]
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• Primitivism in the Movies of Ridley Scott: ALIEN & BLADE RUNNER
  ...R, with the replicants in BLADE RUNNER being both high-tech and primitive. Caution: About four of CCC's comments are somewhat misleading.
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• THE INVISIBLE RAY
  ...)] Boris Karloff (credited as "Karloff"), Bela Lugosi, featured players. CAUTION: There is a 1920, 15 episode serial by the same name. ...edded in a generically mixed fictive world of Horror, African Exploration (CAUTION: with racist views of Africans), and the Tragedy of Revenge. What the ''Vi
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• My Machine (poster by General Cable Corporation 1944)
  ...asserting the worker's oneness with the machine and gratitude toward it. (Caution: This encomium should not be confused with the mnemonic for differentiating
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• SPY KIDS 3-D: GAME OVER
  ...escape into the real world. (All films mentioned listed in this section.) CAUTION: Unlike the original film, this one shouldn't be seen by adults unaccompani
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• Outlaw Star
  ...ship" (quote from a Cartoon Network ad; credits and other data from IMDb). CAUTION: "seoul tiger54" on the IMDb notes that the original Japanese version was "
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• Machineworks: Vito Acconci, Alice Aycock, Dennis Oppenhiem (exhibition catalog)
  ...seventies to adopt a machine esthetic as their approach to object making. (Caution: Research into 1970s artists less likely to show up in museum exhibitions m
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• A Boy and His Dog (novella)
  ...d of the "downunder" of Topeka. Source of film by L. Q. Jones, q.v. (note "Caution"). See under Drama Criticism the essay by J. Crow and R. Erlich and under
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• Codgerspace
  ...'s ''Rama'', an alien machine civilization, human and machine programming. Caution: In ''Codgerspace'' ADF attempts ethnic humor; he's not very good at it. [[
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• LEVIATHAN
  ...ut also to the underwater habitat as a mechanical and electronic monster. (Caution: Arguably more sexist and less reliable on decompression than DEEPSTAR SIX.
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• Sea Change
  CAUTION: "[[The Shores of Night|Sea Change]]" title not unique.
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• DEEPSTAR SIX
  ...itive (and highly derivative) release from containment into the open air. (Caution: Do not depend upon this film for details about decompression.) See in this
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• Race, Space and Class: The Politics of the SF Film from METROPOLIS to BLADE RUNNER
  ...E, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, THX 1138 (all listed under Drama), and other films. Caution: DD does some questionable things with the Morlocks and Eloi in TIME MACHIN
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• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  ...e mostly metaphoric, and ''OFOCN'' is "mainstream" (or "mundane") fiction. Caution: a rather misogynist work. [[Category: Fiction]]
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• Allography and Allegory: Delany's SF
  ...as a scientific 'metaphysical blueprint'" (32, quoting Nicholas Maxwell). CAUTION: Written in relatively simple High Theory, but still may be a problem for p
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• Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
  ...ecessarily, remain Platonic; Buck and Dr. Theopolis just become friends). CAUTION: This film remains true to the original Buck Rogers stories in having a str
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• Kubrick's 2001: A Triple Allegory
  ...zsche insists in ''Also Sprach Zarathustra'', by man in the image of man. CAUTION: ''Triple Allegory'' is a provocative and often useful study but also an in CAUTION: LFW missed or ignored Erlich's essay on ''2001'': "Strange Odyssey: From D
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• Heretics of Dune
  ...emales linked "to giant metal containers" by "a maze of dark tubes" (435). Caution: HoD uses consciously "the dangerous female" motif. See under Literary Crit
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• Mann and Machine (television series)
  ...the team, but must mature emotionally. Cf. and contrast MAKING MR. RIGHT. Caution: Contains material offensive to the 4th Amendment and other parts of the Am
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• DR. NO
  ...effect that is both techno-thriller and a send-up of the techno-thriller. CAUTION: Described in the "Timeout" section of ''The Cincinnati Post'' for 16 Nov.
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• SUBLIMINAL SEDUCTION
  ...g of takeover of people's minds by their user-friendly personal computers. CAUTION: Some sex and sexism.
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• Bergsonian Comedy and the Human Machines in 'Star Wars'
  ...ouble reversal—a machine acting like a person acting like a machine" (8). (Caution: Someone associated with ''Film Criticism'' consistently changed LR's "anti
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• THE FLY (1986)
  ...inefantastique'' 16 (July 1986): 15 f. See this Category, [[VIDEODROME]]. (Caution: Cronenberg's THE FLY can be rough going for people figuratively weak of st
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• Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen
  ..., reptilian, and maybe snake-like (although that may be an Alienoid tail). CAUTION: US MPAA rating of PG-13 is justified by clearly-heard taboo words, some po
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• Out in the Blue Six
  ...l, self-contained cities going into space (326; "Out on the Blue Six …"). (CAUTION: Readers who like their prose lean may find long stretches of ''OBS'' too o
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• Mindstar Rising
  ...t one other character are mediated by artificial glands implanted in them. CAUTION: Some sex, more Bolshy-bashing, Royan's mutilation, and one scene of bone c
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• Metropolis (novel)
  ...erved by the men of the masses, whom the machines devour (as in the film). Caution: The owner of the Metropolitan exotic-drug and whore house is negatively ch
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• The General
  ...RA Review'' #210, March/April 1994: 88, our source here and whom we quote. CAUTION: Satorius warns of explicit violence and racism. (RDE, 01/01/95){{DEFAULTSO
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• Psychodrome
  ...visions of the misuse of technology by Authority were somewhat optimistic. Caution: This book needs an additional draft, among other things clarifying how we
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• A BOY AND HIS DOG
  ...nd by L. G. Heldreth in the articles cited for them under Drama Criticism. CAUTION: A notable feminist critic asserted in the presence of the main compiler of
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• JUDGE DREDD
  ...5 (August 1995). See under Graphics, J. Newsinger, "The Dredd Phenomenon." CAUTION: The happy ending has a police state not as bad as it might be but remainin
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• Pinker, Steven, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
  ...éne_(mechanism:_cosmological_,_biological)]] and works cross-listed there. CAUTION: See references in backmatter of ''TBS'' for absence of citations to the wo
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• The Cyberpapacy: The Sourcebook of Virtual Reality
  ...if one fails to be careful implanting cybernetic devices into one's body. Caution: The ''Sourcebook'' is impeccably antiFascist; we're less sure of the game
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• CLOCKWORK GIRL, THE by O'Reilly and Hanna
  ..." from Greek ''dendron'' 'tree']). See also for mildly threatening robots. CAUTION: Less of a kids book than it may look and probably isn't suitable for young
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• THE LAST SAMURAI
  ...nd Imperial Japanese armies of the time (howitzers, rifles, Gatling guns). CAUTION: For a more balanced view of the costs of the samurai system to non-samurai
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• LOGAN
  CAUTION: The "R" rating is appropriate; this is an excellent film for young adults
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• Little Brother
  CAUTION: The DHS thugs are less brutal than Orwell's Thought Police, and the world
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• Ready Player One (novel)
  ...uch rule out his doing much of anything else. This might be reassuring for CAUTION (2): If you suspect the young person answering your requests for technical
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• COLOSSAL (2016)
  Caution: When citing, use the release date or other information to avoid confusion
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• FearDotCom
  ...omestic and cybernetic environment of a PC (Personal Computer) interface. CAUTION: ''Cinefantastique'' photos and comments on IMDb indicate grisly onscreen m
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• CHICKEN LITTLE (movie)
  ...child (larval?) form—of creatures like Troll dolls, but with three eyes. CAUTION: The SF parts may be too scary for young children, and the film is arguably
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• Gravity's Rainbow (essay)
  ...vey of cyberpunk for "intermediary" and advanced students of the subject. CAUTION: Written in an anti-postmodern version of what has been called in 19th-c. l
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• The Wondersmith
  ..." from its socket (Hoppenstand 19)—cf. ''[[Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey]]''. Caution: Includes some antisemitism and "senseless violence" (Hoppenstand 17, 21).
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• Virtual reality sex is coming — and the toys are already here
  '''CAUTION: The article bears the warning that "The following post contains sexually g
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• The Rowan
  ...ic destruction of the planetoid is done by men in gestalt with generators. CAUTION: The novel is strongly pro-natalist and rather bellicose. (RDE, 27/06/94){{
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• THE ISLAND (film)
  ...its successors (all save FRANKENSTEIN listed under Fiction and/or Drama). CAUTION: Americans who cannot or do not distinguish among zygotes, embryos, fetuses
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• HER (film)
  ...tp://funguerilla.com/the-most-beautiful-robots-anyone-would-like-to-date/].CAUTION: If “We need to talk about our relationship” is your idea of the seven
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• JIMMY NEUTRON: BOY GENIUS
  ...carnival rides and colorfully contrast with the ships of the evil aliens. CAUTION (or ATTRACTION, depending on parental politics): The film teaches children
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• WAR OF THE WORLDS (2005)
  ...cited under Fiction, for epitome of the motif of a mechanized underworld). CAUTION: The literally patriarchal implications of the film would be tolerable if i
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• The City Who Fought
  ...und impressive" (cover notes). Cf. and contrast Newt in [[ALIENS (film)]]. CAUTION: Casual readers may see ''CWF'' endorsing xenocide of the dark-skinned Koln
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• REAL STEEL
  ...cent John Connor with the Schwarzeneger Terminator in TERMINATOR 2 (1991). CAUTION: The film may be a wee bit gratuitously xenophobic and, for all its explici
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• STEALTH
  ...and Industrial than the somewhat more Modernist planes with human pilots. CAUTION: The film is a prime example of "[W'm H.] Hardesty's Law" that carrier warf
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• Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon, or The Longest Shots on Record
  ...from the secret service of his country for bad conduct" (211-12; ch. 25). CAUTION: Koku, Tom's "giant servant" (73; ch. 9) and "Eradicate Sampson, the aged c
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• TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE
  ...emains important for the justification of the US-British invasion of Iraq. CAUTION: This is a gross movie even by Parker and Stone standards, and it contains
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• MAN OF STEEL (Superman 2013)
  CAUTION: The climactic battles of MAN OF STEEL have been attacked as "disaster porn
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• Bots: A Love Story and a Dream
  Caution: There's masochism in this story of a realistic sort, not pornographic role
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• DISTRICT 9
  ...ex alien equipment without rigorous instruction, cf. [[INDEPENDENCE DAY]]. CAUTION:
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• DR. SEUSS' THE LORAX
  ...SF and most fans of cyberpunk SF films, but they will be new to the kids. CAUTION: The film has a hopeful ending, and the subversion is gentle and good for c
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• INDEPENDENCE DAY
  ...from coverage of ''ID'' in ''Cinefantastique'' 28.1 [Aug. 1996]: 14-15.) CAUTION: ''ID'' is an exercise in pastiche, intentionally following old formulas as
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• ROBOT WARS
  ...is a mechanical scorpion, complete with deadly tail (with a laser canon). Caution: The film contains vestiges of a shrew-taming motif and more than vestiges
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• AVATAR
  ...ts — fire is more a Terran thing — but very much including their earth; so CAUTION: the film is participating in a lot of cultural and political battles, incl ...Joe] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar_(2009_film)] For a final note of caution: Andrew Gordon and Hernan Vera argue for AVATAR as a White racist messiah f
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• EVIL DEAD
  CAUTION: EVIL DEAD is a very gory film; it comes across as misogynist, except (as r
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• STARGATE
  ...al cut preview by Tim Prokop, ''Cinefantastique'' 25.5 (Nov. 1994): 46-47; CAUTION: the film TP describes is not exactly the release version in Nov. 1994.
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• THE BICENTENNIAL MAN (1999 film)
  ...ata in ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' (for an inevitable comparison). CAUTION: Removal of the problematic racial allegory leaves a sentimental appeal but
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• CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER
  ...ely recreated. Cf. and contrast [[SKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF TOMORROW]]. CAUTION: The violence is pretty bloodless, and violence imaged without horrible con
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• Johnny Mnemonic (story)
  ...yager, 2003. At least for a while, available on line at Project.Cyberpunk (CAUTION: This may be a pirated edition.)[http://project.cyberpunk.ru/lib/johnny_mne
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• Triumphant Technology and Minimal Man
  ...the Alien, and why the ''Nostromo'' would have a self-destruct mechanism. Caution: The essays is both ingenious and overly brief in interpreting the burial i
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• PLEASANTVILLE
  ...oblematic ideals and a 1950s family-values TV show as an image of eutopia. CAUTION: Sex is complex but valued in PLEASANTVILLE, including solo sex by a mother
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• VIDEODROME
  ...this film the Word may become flesh, and flesh become all sorts of things. CAUTION: A highly important film, but not suitable for children or sensitive adults
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• The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction
  CAUTION: The Wilson review misspells "Csicsery" in "Csicsery-Ronay"; Erlich has cop
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• THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN
  ...LXG and reality in our universe set up as a warning for us in the 21st c. CAUTION: Perhaps less so in the novel, the film incorporates attitudes wherein only
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• Three Hundred Years Hence
  CAUTION: Pierce notes, "Australasia no longer includes any Asiatic peoples – they
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• Terminal Constructedness and the Technology of the Self
  ...g his role as star of a "bio-pic" to become the hero in a romantic comedy. CAUTION: Some proofreading problems aside, this is an excellent essay in the late-2
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• The Airlords of Han
  ...or double-meaning lines relating war and sex (from a male point of view). CAUTION: As Kalish et al. demonstrate, the revised versions remove the "Yellow Peri
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• CLOUDY, WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 (2013)
  ...portal, which can help demonstrate the ubiquity of that concept and image. CAUTION: Though otherwise a most excellent doper movie, especially as family films
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• KINGSMAN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE
  Caution: The film's drug-war politics are too convoluted, contradictory, perverse a
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• Mama, We Are Zhena, Your Son
  CAUTION: "Zhena includes the death of a dog, also of Moscow.
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• GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3
  As with Volume 2, CAUTION: The film suffers from the four O's of the Major Movie Event!: over-finance
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• Heath, Joseph, and Andrew Potter, The Rebel Sell: Why the Culture Can't Be Jammed
  ...(sic). See in this Category citations for J. Ellul, H. Marcuse, T. Roszak. CAUTION: Heath and Potter don't supply original publication dates when they cite re
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• I, ROBOT (film)
  ...rdly courageous, on issues of robot personhood, rights, and rebellion (but CAUTION: ''I, Robot'' may be a bit sexist on gender of proper revolutionary leaders
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• Tomorrowland Never Dies
  ...very important for Modernism vs. postmodernism as styles and world-views. CAUTION: Except insofar as “The child is father to the man,” the Bruce Willis c
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• ROBOTS
  ...achines That Rage Against Other Machines," New York Times, 11 March 2005). CAUTION: If you see the outmoded robots as street people, or the poor (as Peter Har
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• PASSENGERS
  CAUTION: The habitually astute film critic Richard Roeper finds the premise and "pa
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• GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2
  CAUTION: The film suffers from the four O's: over-financed, over-produced, over-lon
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• JUSTICE LEAGUE (animated film)
  ...nes, and all things associated with them are amorphous and High Modernist. CAUTION: Parents might want to tell kids viewing the show that advocating nuclear d
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• Killer Robots Are Not a Fantasy
  MINOR CAUTION: The article repeats the phrase "existential threat," and, as we quote abov
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• THE HULK
  CAUTION: HULK presents a memorable instance of "recovered memory" where the remembe
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• CHICKEN RUN
  ...s, two roosters, and a couple of rats who steal tools but don't use them. CAUTION: It is possible to see the pie machine as less an allusion to 'METROPOLIS a
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• ELYSIUM (2013)
  ...n and the dystopic vision ca. 1971 and literally post-Modern(ist) visions. CAUTION: Consult your local Marxist and expert opinion on population issues before
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• AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR
  ...destroyed Industrial landscapes and at least four memorable images (minor caution: The fourth can be a "spoiler" for issues of plot)..
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• Murdoch Mysteries
  Caution: People easily annoyed by what might be called ''un''-steady steadicam shoo
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• ISLE OF DOGS
  MILD CAUTION: ''Variety'' review linked above comments: "A scattily joined subplot cente
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• MOONFALL
  Caution of a sort: As with many apocalyptic disaster films, there's the ethical iss
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• REPLICAS
  Note for a mild caution: REPLICAS may be unpleasant for audience members upset by implausibilities
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• My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts
  Small caution: On p. 519 we get the right idea of word as thing and/or deed in mythic thi
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• Orange Glory: The Zoomins Must Die
  Caution: Kate Twillinger gets seriously roughed up in what look like preparations f
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• TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE MACHINES
  ...VE: OR HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB|DR. STRANGELOVE]]. CAUTION: About all that remains of the insightful commentary on masculinity and mac
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