The Ancient Future of A.I Film Reviews by R.D Francis
Reviews of outdated, computer-based films. Look under "critic reviews" for B&S About Movies, for each.
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- DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsEddie ConstantineAnna KarinaAkim TamiroffA U.S. secret agent is sent to the distant space city of Alphaville where he must find a missing person and free the city from its tyrannical ruler.
- DirectorEd HuntStarsTom BresnahanCynthia PrestonDavid GaleA psychologist with an increasingly popular TV show brainwashes his audiences using a giant living brain. A mischievous high school student is sent to the psychologist's institute, and becomes determined to expose him.
- DirectorJohn FlynnStarsEdward FurlongFrank LangellaT. Ryder SmithA teenager is part of an interactive video game where he kills innocent victims. Later, the murders become real.
- DirectorJerry SangiulianoStarsFarrah ForkeTerry LondereeJoe LombardoEmployees of a software company discover a conspiracy to use the games made by the company to control the thoughts of its customers.
- DirectorUlli LommelStarsKeir DulleaSuzanna LoveVera MilesAfter a traffic accident Kaylie is in coma for months. Her doctors want to try a new procedure on her: to regain her consciousness, they stimulate her brain with neural patterns of a woman who just died. It works, and Kaylie seems to be ok again. However in her dreams, she lives the last day of her savor - and realizes that she's been killed! Together with her husband she tries to find out what happened.
- DirectorJoseph SargentStarsEric BraedenSusan ClarkGordon PinsentThinking this will prevent war, the US government gives an impenetrable supercomputer total control over launching nuclear missiles. But what the computer does with the power is unimaginable to its creators.
- DirectorWesley BarryStarsDon MegowanErica ElliottFrances McCannIn a post holocaust society, robots take it on their own to help the dying human race by giving them android bodies.
- DirectorSteven LovyStarsJim MetzlerDana Wheeler-NicholsonLu LeonardIn a future where most humans have moved underground to escape the pollution, one of the few pleasures left is a kind of narcotic in the form of chips which can be plugged directly into the brain. Lori, a female body guard steals a case of such chips and flees underground Los Angeles with Danner, a pleasure android so that they can smuggle the chips to New York. In pursuit is Plughead, a dangerous criminal so named because of the many sockets and ports which decorate his scalp so that he can test and use the chips that he is after.
- DirectorRobert LovySteven LovyStarsVernon WellsDeborah SheltonJim MetzlerIn the backdrop of Earths polluted future a female FBI agent removes Danner, a pleasure android from an asylum in order to coerce him into helping her hunt down the criminal psychopath Plughead. But Plughead who has tangled with Danner before has his own plans as he is forcing a female scientist to help him manufacture life extending longevity chips which he intends to sell to rich and powerful clients.
- DirectorNigel Lesmoir-GordonStarsArthur C. ClarkeMichael BarnsleyStephen HawkingArthur C. Clarke presents this unusual documentary on the mathematical discovery of the Mandelbrot Set (M-Set) in the visually spectacular world of fractal geometry. This show relates the science of the M-Set to nature in a way that seems to identify the hand of God in the design of the universe itself. Dr. Mandelbrot in 1980 discovered the infinitely complex geometrical shape called the Mandelbrot Set using a very simple equation with computers and graphics.
- DirectorMonte MarkhamStarsDavid OliverSusan UrsittiMonte MarkhamProfessor Vandemeer works on a secret project for the US-Air-Force called DART: a very small helicopter for scouting and defense. When he gets killed, Colonel Denton gets under suspicion. His son Scott and Vandemeers daughter Karen believe in his innocence and search for the true murderer and his motives.
- DirectorDonald CammellStarsJulie ChristieFritz WeaverGerrit GrahamA scientist creates Proteus--an organic super computer with artificial intelligence which becomes obsessed with human beings, and in particular the creator's wife.
- DirectorBarry LevinsonStarsMichael DouglasDemi MooreDonald SutherlandA computer specialist is sued for sexual harassment by a former lover turned boss who initiated the act forcefully, which threatens both his career and his personal life.
- DirectorMark RosmanStarsEthan EmbryCassidy RaeNassira NicolaA teenage boy gets a robotic opponent after winning a laser tag contest; however the robot is not what it seems!
- DirectorHerbert L. StrockStarsRichard EganConstance DowlingHerbert MarshallA security agent investigates sabotage and murder at a secret underground laboratory, home of two experimental robots.
- DirectorRené BonnièreStarsBob MartinIngrid VeningerDave PatrickBefore WAR GAMES there was Canada's HIDE & SEEK. Watch this and you will see how close the movies are. High school computer wiz kid's program accidently hooks into the main frame computer of a nuclear power plant and nearly causes a melt down!
- DirectorAndy AndersonStarsJohn S. DaviesLauren LaneMatthew SacksA group of strange beings at a master computer control room use their equipment to kill people by remote control.
- DirectorMichael CrichtonStarsAlbert FinneyJames CoburnSusan DeyThree of four models, who had plastic surgery done by Larry after a computed list, are dead. Neither the cops nor Larry believe they're suicides. Larry investigates and stays with the fourth model. Who's behind the lists and murders?
- DirectorPaul CohenStarsWilliam Shatner
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- DirectorG. Philip JacksonStarsAnne DansereauPeter BrikmanisJacques CoutureSet in the not-too-distant future, when the existing world economy has collapsed, and the new city-states are controlled by computers, many of which require a kind of telepathic linkage with a human counterpart. When the most important of these computers exhibits strange patterns during a crucial operation, its counterpart, a top scientist named Melody, begins having psychic experiences. For a low-budget film, a surprisingly deep exploration of emotions vs. logic and the elusive search for truth.
- DirectorMichael FarkasStarsLee MontgomeryToni HudsonSam BottomsA female engineer, with the assistance of her pilot-wannabe male friend, discovers a way to rip off ATM machines, but in doing so stumbles upon a plot to destroy the U.S. monetary system.
- StarsDerek BondHarvey BrabanWilliam Lyon BrownTechnological progress, in the shape of Rossum's Universal Robots, threatens to dominate and wipe out mankind.
- DirectorThomas Borch NielsenStarsLars BomPuk ScharbauJørgen KiilJB is the city's best attacker, who lives a carefully organized life in and outside the network. After hacking into the most powerful of all domains the Stoiser domain, JB thought that the cruel Stoiser would kill him. But instead he gave him a job - as a webmaster."Skyggen" in the Euro-markets.
- DirectorJohn KincadeStarsPaul L. SmithYaphet KottoHeidi HelmerThe USA are attacked by a large group of well organized terrorists who communicate through a computer network via satellite. A bunch of highschool kids has hacked the password and gained access. They believe it's a game and unknowingly cause terror acts all over the country. An anti-terror force fights against the terrorists.
- DirectorDick LowryStarsKen OlinJoe MortonKate VernonIt's millennium eve. At the stroke of midnight the Y2K computer bug kicks in, causing widespread chaos in the US.
- DirectorRichard PepinStarsLouis Gossett Jr.Jaimz WoolvettEd O'RossOn the eve of the new millenium, the American military are alerted of a long missing nuclear missile hidden deep in the jungle which is set to go off in January 2000, due to the millenium bug. They must race against time to stop it.