Ex Machina

After watching the trailer for this sci-fi thriller about artificial intelligence, I had formed some opinions about it that weren't exactly positive. It looked entertaining, but I had figured it would be another anti-technology movie where 'new thing X that we never should have invented destroys the world!' Which is what any move about technology …

In the Water, free for a limited time

Hello! I've decided it's been a while since I had a promotion, so one of my stories is going to be free on Kindle this weekend, starting tomorrow. It's about a crash landing on an alien world, an unknown virus, deep oceans, consciousness, and more! If you are slightly interested, might as well check it …

Blue Ruin

As far as revenge stories go, this one was a bit different. When we first meet Dwight, the protagonist, he is sleeping in his car and eating from garbage cans. The movie does a good job of setting the scene fairly quickly, and you find yourself feeling for the character before he even says a …

Mad Max: Fury Road

You remember when you were a kid and you got ahold of your dad's video camera and filmed yourself 'punching' your friends so that they fell off a 'cliff', or putting on your sunglasses and saying something cool? You didn't really know what you were doing, but you'd seen that stuff in movies you liked, …

Aquatic Robot to Seek Life on Europa

Nasa is designing a squid-like robot to explore the oceans beneath Europa's frozen surface. This has me so excited and I just feel happy to be alive while these kinds of things are going on. Imagine being the one to look through this thing's eyes and see the first sight of extra-terrestrial life. I can't …