In which memory is not reality Talking about anime online is equivalent to walking into a field of anthills and wildly swinging a baseball bat about. You’re bound to hit on something while simultaneously upsetting large groups of people. For … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 10: Ghost in the Shell
In Which Keanu Needs to Get Online! Why is Johnny Mnemonic primarily set in Newark, New Jersey? Yes America’s 70th largest city is the hub of all cyber shenanigans in the far off future of 2021. Newark (or the Free … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 09: Johnny Mnemonic
In Which We’ve Met Before There was a period in the late 90’s where the Internet seemed like it could be anything. The moment between the release of the first hypertext web browsers and the dot-com bubble bursting was a … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 08: You’ve Got Mail
In Which We’re On TV Deep in the recesses on 90s culture a monster was born. A cruel demander, who we all noticed, but refused to take seriously. A beast of unfathomable hunger and power, which could alter and shift … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 07: Natural Born Killers
In Which We’re California Dreaming As a place and cultural entity Hong Kong serves as a kind of inflection point for the other aspects of 90’s culture that we have yet to cover. The ideas of urban isolationism, receding colonialism, … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 06: Chungking Express
In Which Hawke’s the Last Real Thing You Got The culture of the United States in the 90s was one based around the inability to properly define conflict. For the past 80 years of American history there had always been … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 05: Reality Bites
In Which Cyber Christ Is Born Why was the culture at large obsessed with virtual reality in the 90s? It’s slightly befuddling, especially with the benefit of hindsight, that a technology that is just barely functional at a mass level … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 04: The Lawnmower Man
In which the planet is hacked. In its own way 1995’s Hackers serves as a kind of aesthetic and cultural apotheosis of the concept of the 90s. Here’s a movie that signifies so much of the look and ideology of … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 03: Hackers
What is the point of militias? Intellectually I understand them, they are outlets for paranoia, outrage, reactionary politics, and blunt power fantasies. But what goals do they actually hope to achieve. Would they actually want an apocalypse or military coup … Continue reading Movie Review: The Standoff at Sparrow Creek
In which information will control the world In Chuck Klosterman’s book But What if We’re Wrong? he recounts a bit of reading from a 1980 edition of the Book of Predictions. In it he’s confronted with the speculations of futurists … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 02: Sneakers
In Which the Future is Divined With MiniDiscs Science fiction has always served as a great predictor, with pieces speculating on things like cyberspace, mobile telecommunications, and AI with shocking prescience. The amusing thing about those speculations are the limits … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 01: Strange Days
Twenty years ago was 1999. Now, on balance the year itself was nothing too notable. Between the political bickering of the Clinton impeachment (he was acquitted in February of ’99), and events like the bursting of the dot-com bubble and … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 00: What It Is
As with most pieces of digital content, this series was meant to be only two short parts, but has eventually expanded into three. So in this, the honest to God final installment, I’ll cover some of the odds and ends … Continue reading Most Anticipated Movies of 2019 Part 3
A Big Year for Notable Directors. Outside of the superhero/Star Wars hype cycle the most notable films tend to be the next projects by established directors. 2019 is poised to be quite the full plate as many high profile talents … Continue reading Most Anticipated Movies of 2019 Part 2
Ah yes, the New Year. A time of reflection and preparation for the next run around the sun. But since it’s also the Internet it also mean we have to churn out endless content for those sweet, sweet, clicks. And … Continue reading Most Anticipated Movies of 2019 Part 1
Because of the weird title I had to go with the mission impossible scheme. But here is your place to talk all things Bandersnatch. Did you get all the endings? See all the Easter Eggs? Actually enjoy the experience? Sound … Continue reading Spoil Sports: Black Mirror – Bandersnatch
Hey everybody! How’s Ultimate treating you. Got any new mains? Favorite stage? Bangin’ new remix that you can’t wait to hear again? Well share your opinions and thoughts below. Continue reading Everyone is Here for a Smash Bros. Ultimate Launch Thread
How does a legend retire? This query haunts the latest picture by A Ghost Story director David Lowery. It is both an in fiction question, and a metafictional one, in The Old Man and the Gun. The film ponders what to do with both … Continue reading Movie Review: The Old Man and the Gun
The dust has cleared, and the score has been settled. And the results are clear. The Avocado’s favorite horror movie is… This isn’t too surprising. Alien ran away with the nomination votes, and absolutely trounced the competition in each round. … Continue reading Horror Tournament: Results
Well it’s come to this. An extraterrestrial showdown between the most existentially galling aliens the cinema has ever dreamed up. In this final bout, chose wisely, because there is nothing left after this. Will it be: Or: Vote below. Continue reading Horror Movie Tournament: Finals
The titans of cinema clash. Scott, Kubrick, Hitchcock, and Carpenter are all on the battlefield. Their flags planted and men at arms (unfortunately its mostly men). Will the the anxiety inducing xenomorph of Alien impregnate the competition? Will Jack Nicholson … Continue reading Horror Movie Tournament: Final Four
