Battle Angel Alita is a 1993 cyberpunk anime film with a persistent, eloquent presence on “Most Underrated” lists. It’s due for a James Cameron-directed live action update next year, and we at Cryptosphere Global HQ sincerely join hands and bow… Read More ›
We’ve featured many different kinds of movies here on The Cryptosphere’s Film Friday. We’ve served up earnest. We’ve served up tragic. We’ve served up happy. We’ve served up sad. And now, my friends, clear the table; it’s time for the… Read More ›
This is it, kittens. The real thing. Not the first, but the biggest (though at the time a box office failure), baddest, and possibly the best of the 90’s cyberpunk genre, Hackers is nothing less than a great movie. As… Read More ›
Who doesn’t love a good spy thriller? Even a great one? This, The Saint, is one. Starring the living anime figurine Val Kilmer as the mysterious thief-for-hire Simon Templar and Elisabeth Shue as his scientist sweetie, it’s a fun and… Read More ›
The year was 1999. The dotcom boom had begun to go bust. The Euro was born. Everyone was in love with Shakespeare in Love. The Melissa worm was launched. Bill Gates becomes the richest man in the world. And David… Read More ›
Let’s go back in time, kittens: back all the way to 2008, before most of the world had ever heard of Anonymous. And then, let’s look at some of the the busiest, messiest years in American history and watch as Anonymous… Read More ›
We’ve featured They Live, a little gem of dystopian 80’s cinema, before, but our old copy got blown off YouTube with a nassssty, nasssty DMCA, so here’s a fresh new copy of Rowdy Roddy Piper’s greatest starring role. Could be… Read More ›
For those of you who’ve always wondered where those memes come from on your most radical friend’s Facebook posts, or why that old Apple commercial is Such A Big Deal: well, half of the memes are from Animal Farm and… Read More ›
Remember when the biggest action star in the world was Keanu Reeves? It happened, people, but it mostly happened because of a big bus and Laurence Fishburne and in spite of Johnny Mnemonic, which was a terrific short story and a… Read More ›
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