film screening
Dark Star
Phoenix Phoenix Arts Centre, 4 Midland Street, Leicester, United KingdomDir: John Carpenter USA 1974, 1hr 23mins About: In John Carpenter (The Thing) and Alien writer Dan O’Bannon’s comic take on 2001: A Space Odyssey, the deep space cruiser Dark Star is assigned the task of blowing up planets inhabited by undesirable life forms in order to make the universe safe for the human race. […]
Alpha Go
Phoenix Phoenix Arts Centre, 4 Midland Street, Leicester, United KingdomDir: Greg Kohs UK 2017, 1hr 30mins With more board configurations than there are atoms in the universe, the ancient Chinese game of Go has long been considered a grand challenge for artificial intelligence. On March 9, 2016, the worlds of Go and artificial intelligence collided in South Korea for an extraordinary best-of-five-game competition, coined […]
Ghost in the Shell
Phoenix Phoenix Arts Centre, 4 Midland Street, Leicester, United KingdomDir: Mamoru OshiiJapan/UK 1995, 1hr 22mins In the not too distant future, Tokyo's Section Nine security force hunts for a hacker known only as the Puppet Master. Leading the investigation is cyborg agent Major Motoko Kusanagi, far more powerful than her human appearance would suggest. And yet as the Puppet Master leaves a trail of […]
War Games
Phoenix Phoenix Arts Centre, 4 Midland Street, Leicester, United KingdomDir: John Badham USA 1983, 1h 24mins In this 80’s classic a young computer whiz kid accidentally finds a back-door into a top-secret super-computer, which has complete control over the U.S.A’s nuclear arsenal. It challenges him to a game between America and Russia and he innocently plays along - unknowingly starting the countdown to World War […]
Ghost in the Shell
Phoenix Phoenix Arts Centre, 4 Midland Street, Leicester, United KingdomDir: Mamoru Oshii Japan/UK 1995, 1hr 22mins In the not too distant future, Tokyo's Section Nine security force hunts for a hacker known only as the Puppet Master. Leading the investigation is cyborg agent Major Motoko Kusanagi, far more powerful than her human appearance would suggest. And yet as the Puppet Master leaves a trail […]
War Games
Phoenix Phoenix Arts Centre, 4 Midland Street, Leicester, United KingdomDir: John Badham USA 1983, 1h 24mins In this 80’s classic a young computer whiz kid accidentally finds a back-door into a top-secret super-computer, which has complete control over the U.S.A’s nuclear arsenal. It challenges him to a game between America and Russia and he innocently plays along - unknowingly starting the countdown to World […]