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Dan Persons

Dan Persons is a veteran film critic and journalist. His reviews can be read at cinematicsqueak.substack.com and can be heard weekly on WBAI 99.5FM’s Hour of the Wolf. He is also the instigator, developer, and sole practitioner of SpaceBrains3D, a funky, low-budget process for turning 2D video into stereoscopic 3D.

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Kirsten Dunst and Cailee Spaeny in Civil War
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The SF Path to Higher Consciousness

Alex Garland’s Civil War Captures What Journalists Do, Like It or Not

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Alicia Vikander as Ava in Ex Machina
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Ex Machina Perfectly Expresses Our Unease With AI

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Still from the animated series "Common Side Effects" in which a bearded man stares at a cluster of bright blue mushrooms
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Adult Swim’s Common Side Effects Is a Surprisingly Great SF Series

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A bandaged Jack Griffin (Claude Rains) in a scene from The Invisible Man (1933)
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The Invisible Man and the Unseen Hand of Power

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The Axiom's robots charging down the corridor with Wall-E and EVE in Pixar's Wall-E
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Wall-E and the Value of Embracing the Unknown and Unpredictable

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Rod Serling in the Twlight Zone episode "It's a Good Life"
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When Fear Is the Weapon and the Tool: Two Essential Episodes of The Twilight Zone

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A scene from the animated film Princess Mononoke: Lady Eboshi looks over her shoulder while holding a rifle
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Princess Mononoke: Three Cheers for the Adversary?

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Avery Brooks as Benjamin Sisko in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
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Star Trek: DS9’s “In the Pale Moonlight” and the Option to Backtrack on the Road to Hell

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Demi Moore as Elisabeth Sparkle in The Substance
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The Substance Is a Different Brand of Exploitation Film

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David Lynch in What Did Jack Do?
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No Headline Can Sum Up David Lynch

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