Avi Lewis' documentary This Changes Everything looks at the narrative for civilization that allowed climate change to happen. Without preaching, the film takes …
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Racing Extinction: awe-inspiring images overpowered by activism narrative
We’re in an age of mass extinction. For centuries, you might expect one species to go extinct per year, but thanks to human activities, these numbers have …
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The Martian engineers the shit out of surviving on Mars
The Martian would be a great engineering recruitment film — if it ever mentioned the word “engineering.” When Mark Watney (Matt Damon) is faced with the …
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Ex Machina is yet another film about boys and their toys
Ex Machina isn't just misogynistic; it gets the science wrong, too. …
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Merchants of Doubt: an inside look at the climate change denial industry that doesn’t delve deep enough
Merchants of Doubt takes an in-depth look at how the same public relations experts — these “Merchants of Doubt” — who helped tobacco companies persuade the …
The Imitation Game: cracking the Nazi code and the human one
There’s a crucial moment in The Imitation Game, the new biopic about Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) cracking the unbreakable German Enigma Code during World …
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