The Young Pope | a belated review
The philosopher Jacques Derrida once said ‘Inheritance is an act’. At least, I’ve been told he did. I’ve never read it myself, and as much as I care about both …
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Matthew J. Barnard is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has written on Heidegger, Bergson, and Kant, and he is the author of Heidegger’s Conception of Freedom: Beyond Cause and Effect (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024). He serves on the Executive Committee of the British Society for Phenomenology and edits its podcast. He is currently working on the phenomenology of technology. [more]
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Avatar (2009) | a belated review
Avatar is a film that argues that human beings are mortally evil and inescapably isolated. It claims that the only moral solution to which is to betray one’s …
The Matrix Reloaded (2003) | a belated review
I want to speak about a film I recently rewatched for the first time in years: The Matrix Reloaded. This is a fact I’m sure some of you do not consider right …
Robocop (2014) | a belated review
When it came out, the Robocop reboot gave me faith that sci-fi isn’t dead. I expected a moody Nolan-esque remake, similar to the Dredd (2012), that would …