At the movies: Strange Days.

Have you ever wiretripped? Have you ever jacked in? Well, you've got your chance if you find yourself where a 35mm print of it is showing. Another example of how streaming does not solve nearly as many problems as it claims to, this shockingly difficult-to-see SciFi/action epic from Kathryn Bigelow is a wild, messy, grotesque, and brutal vision, and absolutely worth investigating. 

At the movies: The Relic.

 

1997's The Relic was a grand quilt of influences, behind the scenes chaos, and a superb monster, and I got to write about it for the AV Club as part of a series about airport bestsellers getting turned into movies.