The Review at the End of the Universe
The release of a film as nerdy as Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One couldn’t pass this podcast by without marking its release with a discussion about all it has to offer. AS always the discussion covers a range of topics such as nerdy references, fear of internet trolls and comparisons between this film and the…
Steven Spielberg brings a digital world to life in his adaptation of the wannabe cult classic novel Ready Player One. I’ll start with a brief overview of my feelings on the novel. In short I think it’s an easy read but has several fundamental problems that prevent it from ever being good. The characters are…
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s Me and Earl and the Dying Girl explores the concept of living with a terminal illness and what effect that has on the people around you from the teenage perspective. Greg (Thomas Mann) is a self confessed social outcast but not in the negative sense. The film goes to great lengths to establish that he…
