Hollywood is well known for taking artistic liberties and rewriting history for dramatic effect. When it comes to Tinseltown movies about hacking, logic and intelligent writing are usually well in the ...

Computer screen movies, commonly called screenlife films, might initially feel like the next iteration of the found footage genre. Rather than being someone's videos from their phone or camera, it's ...

Computer operating systems have become so commonplace that they’re now the latest destination in movie settings. The sub-genre known as screenlife takes place entirely in a computer environment, where ...

Do you remember the first time you saw a light saber? Or what about being eye-to-eye with a T-Rex? Did you cry when Andy said good-bye and drove away from Woody and Buzz? Did you reach out to touch ...

Since the dawn of the technological age, the film and television industry has been mining the world of computers for narrative gain. While some tech narratives depict the industry in a relatively ...

Featuring technology as a central part of your narrative is a gambit. Movies are inherently bound to the technology available at the time of production, yet oftentimes in the past they have wanted to ...

The 1980s were the heyday of “computer movies,” from WarGames to Weird Science to Tron. Personal computing was ubiquitous, but still new enough to be used as an anything-goes plot tool without being ...