Funerals & Snakes

Funerals & Snakes

Friday reviews: 29 September 2023

The Creator and Saw X are in cinemas, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar is on Netflix and No One Will Save You is streaming on Disney+

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Dan Slevin
Sep 29, 2023
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In Gareth Edwards’ The Creator, the United States responds to an atrocity it blames on ‘artificial intelligence’ by going to war against it and the remaining regions of the planet that live in harmony with it.

Robots – some distinctly robotic and some with human faces, called simulacra – have developed consciousness and with it a sense of their own indiv…

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