Tag: Iron Jim
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Without firing a shot
It started this week: friends of mine, perfectly good folk, folk who (one would think) would know better, started sending me A.I.-generated art. An alternate version of The Avengers, cast with the stars of the 1990s; The Incredibles as a 1950s sitcom. It’s all possible now — if you have an idea, you can generate…
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My Week With Alien, Part 2: ALIENS
Originally published at The Substream. With the first film, Alien became a classic; with the second, for good or ill, Alien becomes a franchise. This is beside the point for me: what I find most rewarding about all four Alien films is the degree to which this series, in its every iteration (and like the creature…
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Review: AVATAR
The dreams of Iron Jim There’s a man who can’t walk, but in his dreams he can stride out into an alien wilderness and run. The man is Jim Cameron, and if he is known to be a tyrant, perhaps it’s only because he’s spent so much of his life stuck in that damn wheelchair.…
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Review: TITANIC
The Ship of Dreams I remember very clearly that for about six or seven hours, Titanic was the best-kept secret in the world. As the release of James Cameron’s seventh feature film drew towards us in 1997, I had heard all the horror stories, seen the (rather irritatingly) vague trailer, read the Time Magazine article about the sinking ship…