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Movie Discussion: Bryan Forbes’ The Stepford Wives (1975)

Girl Meets Context: Throughout the month of May we will be watching 1970s films about cults and conspiracies – from covens of witches to New Age self-help groups to neo-Pagans. This week we watched Th… more →

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Movie Discussion: Bryan Forbes' The Stepford Wives (1975) — 3 comments

The Freak wrote 1 week ago: Girl Meets Context: Throughout the month of May we will be watching 1970s films about cults and cons … more →

Tags: Total trash! I'm not sure I loved it., mad scientists, This is horror movie homework - essential to know but n, Literary Adaptations, POP PERFECTION, Gender, Horror, sexism, Race

Movie Discussion: Paul W.S. Anderson's Resident Evil (2002) — 11 comments

The Freak wrote 2 months ago: Girl Meets Context: Horror Franchise Month soldiers on… literally. Resident Evil is based upon … more →

Tags: zombies, Giant Monsters & Kaiju, I want to travel back in time to stop myself from watch, This is a horror classic because…why, exactly?, Provocative and problematic, video game adaptations, More feminist than you'd think, Gender, Horror

Killer machines do they have moral obligations?

jodi myatt wrote 2 months ago: As technology advances we are still not at the level of the T-800 from Terminator, however as machin … more →

Tags: Cogito ergo sum, Politics, Jodi Myatt, Killer machines by Jodi Myatt, Drones, Moral, autonomous cars, Killer machines do they have moral obligations?

Movie Discussion: James Wan's Saw (2004) — 8 comments

The Freak wrote 2 months ago: Girl Meets Context: We kick off Horror Franchise Month with the first film in the top-grossing horro … more →

Tags: This is a horror classic because…why, exactly?, busted, Torture Porn & New French Extremity, This is horror movie homework - essential to know but n, Gender, Horror, Violence, torture porn, SAW

Movie Discussion: Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Pulse [Kairo] (2001) — 10 comments

The Freak wrote 4 months ago: Girl Meets Context: Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa (no relation to Akira) spent about 10 years making low … more →

Tags: Ghost's & Hauntings, Infections & Plagues, A worthy film, but won't keep me up at night., J-Horror, Post-apocalyptic & Dystopian Horror, Deserves props for being groundbreaking and innovative., This movie either has too many ideas or not enough. I d, Ghosts, apocalypse

Movie Discussion: Don Coscarelli's Phantasm (1979) — 10 comments

The Freak wrote 5 months ago: Girl Meets Context: Writer/director Don Coscarelli is responsible for three objects of bonafide cult … more →

Tags: Alien Invasion, batshit insanity, I remembered this as being good but..., Mindfuck, This is a horror classic because…why, exactly?, cemetery, Dimensions, Don Coscarelli, Dwarves

Movie Discussion: Ridley Scott's Alien (1979) — 18 comments

The Freak wrote 7 months ago: Girl Meets Context: Alien was the second feature directed by Ridley Scott, and instantly became a cu … more →

Tags: A worthy film, but won't keep me up at night., Academy Award Winner, body horror, Giant Monsters & Kaiju, Golden Globe nominee, It's fine but it's not for me., Masterpiece, National Film Registry, Parasitic Horror

Movie Discussion: Drew Goddard's The Cabin in the Woods (2012) — 18 comments

The Freak wrote 1 year ago: Girl Meets Context: It is difficult to even synopsize The Cabin in the Woods because the plot of the … more →

Tags: Weres & Shapeshifters, Slashers, zombies, Giant Monsters & Kaiju, witchcraft & black magic, Ghost's & Hauntings, Demons & Possessions, backwoods horror, Evil Children & Monstrous Pregnancies

Movie Discussion: Richard Stanley's Hardware (1990) — 18 comments

The Freak wrote 1 year ago: Girl Meets Context: On January 20, 2012 we queued up Richard Stanley’s 1990 cult film Hardware, a lo … more →

Tags: I remembered this as being good but..., This movie is dumb but I had fun watching it (and I don, U.K. Horror, Post-apocalyptic & Dystopian Horror, Comic book adaptations, Gender, Horror, Violence, Cyborg

Inanimate Object of My Affection #3: The Portal Script — 7 comments

Capitalist Lion Tamer wrote 3 years ago: My apologies for this being old news, which as everyone knows is the worst kind of news on the Inter … more →

Tags: Random, Win, Humor, Portal, dark, cake, manic depression, AI, Object Affection

It's the end, heed the warning....watch film — 3 comments

mozza2311 wrote 4 years ago: Hello to both my readers, Hope you two had a good weekend which was less draining and emotional than … more →

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, AI, Irrational Fear, tags that hope to get more visits to your blog?

When bugs really do matter: 22 years after the Therac 25 — 7 comments

Nathan Adams wrote 4 years ago: At the moment my master’s work has me in the middle of what seems like an never-ending sea of … more →

Tags: development, AECL, Alaris, medical software, Programming, race condition, therac


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