Christoph Waltz

  • Review: ‘Alita: Battle Angel’ comes into her own via the awesome FX (Includes first-hand account)

    As bio-mechanics and artificial intelligence improve, questions have been raised about what qualifies someone to be human. What if their body is 90% machine, but their brain is still intact? What about cyborgs or AI that demonstrate more love and compassion than many of their flesh-and-blood counterparts? It’s possible the definition of human will evolve over the next century. In the meantime, audiences have tales of fiction in which to explore the debate. In Alita: Battle Angel, a female cyborg is reawakened with no memories of her former life, but an innate attraction to conflict.

  • Review: ‘Spectre’ isn’t the retirement party this Bond deserved (Includes first-hand account)

    One of the things many people liked about Daniel Craig was that he was ushering the classic spy into a modern day world. While James Bond was always ahead of the game in terms of technology, he’d been peddling the same archaic form of masculinity for decades. The era of Craig was meant to prove that 007 is actually just a man who’s exceptionally skilled at killing people. His first three films worked towards this goal and Spectre would be the last featuring the actor; unfortunately the new age of Bond ended with Skyfall.