Lucy

I saw Lucy this weekend, at the Marcus Saukville cinema.  Lucy (played by Scarlett Johansson) is tricked into delivering experimental narcotics to an international drug lord (played by Min-sik Choi).  She is then forced to mule it back to the US.  While doing so, she is accidentally exposed to it.  The drugs trigger an extraordinary …

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Transcendence

I saw Transcendence on Friday at the Fox Bay Cinema.  It is the story of artificial intelligence researcher, Dr Will Caster.  He is working on building a sentient computer, capable of experiencing human emotions, when he is attacked by radical anti-technology extremists.  As he slowly dies, his friend Max Waters and his wife Evelyn struggle …

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