The Invader, Self-Knowledge: Four Science Fiction Films that Intuit the Human Future. Part 1:...
Ex Machina (2014)
Arrival (2016)
Annihilation (2018)
I Am Mother (2019)
I am a huge science fiction film buff. In my adolescence, I was a prolific reader of so...
Vito and Michael Corleone’s Ethical Inspiration to the Moviegoer
In addition to the detailed images of violence in The Godfather for which the adaption of Mario Puzo’s story of a successful crime family...
TikTok: The Surveillance State and Your Role
Lately, you cannot walk down a busy street, go to work, eat at a restaurant, workout at the gym, or go grocery shopping without...
Barbie as Philosophy
If we want to understand the relationship between philosophy and film, what better place to start than the best film of 2023! No, I’m...
Lies, Fiction, and the Post Office
Early January in the UK witnessed an extraordinary outpouring of public outrage. In four parts, shown on successive nights, a TV drama documented prosecutions...
Henry’s Radical Life or the Schmuck’s Life?
Henry Hill, in Scorsese’s most renowned Gangster movie, Goodfellas, aspires to be a radical individual. His freedom is expressed in his becoming a member of...
What’s wrong with falsehoods in (fiction) film?
Google the phrase “inaccurate documentaries” and you will discover numerous sites triumphantly condemning the falsehoods in lists of culpable films, from Nanook of the...
What’s in a Name?
This is a good time for the area of philosophical inquiry after which this APA Blog Series is named (the reason for this circumlocution...
Not all Films are Fiction Films
What is actually going on in the cinema is that you are sitting in a comfortable chair, in a darkened room? Let’s say you...
AI Films and the Fudging of Consciousness
Remember feeling sorry for Hal 9000 when Dave Bowman was shutting him off in 2001: A Space Odyssey? Hal was a total AI prick—spying...