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Take a seat and get ready to discover Wim Wenders’ road trip masterpiece, Until The End Of The World. Learn the strange story behind the movie, and, hopefully, I can convince you to watch this amazing movie despite its unusual premise and stranger runtime.
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Some of the Best Cyberpunk Lives in the World of Short Films — While Black Mirror might have made the idea of short and bleak sci-fi popular, the show is not the first to have come up with the idea of cyberpunk short stories. Whether you’ve just finished the show or never really liked it in the first place, I’ve got good news for you. There’s a lot more out there.
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We propose a cyberpunk reading of Christopher Nolan’s filmography. While stopping short of defining Nolan’s catalogue as cyberpunk per se, this author is interested in exploring what a cyberpunk interpretation of these films might reveal, or what value these films might hold for the cyberpunk enthusiast looking to reframe popular culture.
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Upgrade Blends Genres to Make it Ultimately Cyberpunk — When a mysterious benefactor offers to help him walk again by implanting an experimental technology called STEM, Grey gets the opportunity to regain a normal life. However, STEM ends up being a lot more than a piece of tech that enables of Grey’s body again. The tech is actually semi-autonomous evolving program.
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Vin Diesel’s Bloodshot was meant to be the first installment in a series of films set in a Valiant Comics shared cinematic universe. But after the pandemic put everyone’s plans on hold, it’s anybody’s guess whether this will actually be the first part of a series of films.
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In a near future Los Angeles stands the Hotel Artemis, a sanctuary for criminals with a full-service nurse . . . for members only, of course. Things go unexpectedly wrong for a group of crooks when riots break out during a heist. Packing futuristic tech, they make their way to the Artemis and to sanctuary, or so they think.
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Released in 1992, Sneakers flew (and continues to fly) under the radar cyberpunk fans. Cyberpunk 2020, the popular tabletop roleplaying game was published just one year prior to the movie’s release. Snow Crash, often regarded by fans as the point in which cyberpunk literature officially “died”, dropped the very same year as Sneakers.
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The first of many cyberpunk movies, Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner embodies all the subgenre has to offer. Despite lukewarm box office performance in 1982, Blade Runner has earned its place as one of the most important films in science fiction cinema.
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Tsutomu Nihei’s BLAME! is a manga composed of 65 chapters, also called Logs. The series was a revolutionary step in the cyberpunk manga genre, challenging accepted concepts and forms with its sweeping, illustrated landscapes and inspired use of negative space.