Posts by Claire L. Evans
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‘The Lambert Account’ Podcast: Claire L. Evans on ‘Show Me a Hero’ and the California Drought
Molly talks to writer/musician Claire L. Evans about the California drought and David Simon’s new miniseries, ‘Show Me a Hero.’
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Honey, I Shrunk the Hero: ‘Ant-Man’ and a Brief History of Tiny Action at the Movies
Looking through the microscope at the predecessors of Marvel’s new mini-hero.
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What the Future Was: ‘Tomorrowland’ and the Time Before Sci-Fi Turned Dystopic
How science fiction became nightmare cosplay, the medium through which our most cynical anxieties about the future could be expressed.
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Faces in the Crowd: ‘Ex Machina’ and the Emotional Intelligence of Computers
Artificial Intelligence has long fascinated filmgoers — but what does it really mean for a computer to be self-aware?
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We Went There: Tunneling Through the Hype of the ‘Interstellar’ Oculus Rift Experience
The Oculus is particularly suited for marketing “experiences” of this nature — simulated immersions into commercial franchises. Soon we’ll all be floating on threadlike clouds of information brought to us by Vitamin Water, or Doritos, or whatever Christopher Nolan movie is currently in theaters.
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Girls in Hoodies Podcast: ‘Lucy,’ ‘Under the Skin,’ and ‘The Leftovers’ With Special Guest Claire Evans
Claire Evans joins Molly and Emily to talk about ‘Lucy,’ ‘Under the Skin,’ and Scarlett Johansson’s great year, plus why Emily is quitting ‘The Leftovers.’
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Truth in Pseudoscience: ‘Lucy’ and the Dream of Unlimited Memory
Lucy is no idiot savant, cataloguing the multiform world with exactitude. Instead, she is the raw hardware capacity of the human organism, taken apart and put back together again by its own software.
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Ben Franklin Goes to ‘Transformers’: A Thought Experiment
Would a man from another time — not just any man, Benjamin Franklin — be able to process ‘Transformers: Age of Extinction’ as information? Or will the whirling, individually articulated infinitudes of transforming metal register solely as a loud and horrific blur, a nightmare beyond mortal comprehension?
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Gods and Monsters: Why Godzilla Is Still King
The craggy lizard foot forces a vital, essentially spiritual, perspective shift: We are not the masters of the world.
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Personal Voyages and Space-time Odysseys: Rethinking ‘Cosmos’ for 2014
If there’s one thing Carl Sagan’s original ‘Cosmos’ taught viewers, it’s that science is always an unfinished project: a daisy chain of curiosity that spans the ages. Maybe we should think of ‘Cosmos’ not as a TV show, but as a version of that process, one that each generation gets a pass at.
