I don’t like Star Trek much, but there’s always been an interesting debate about the science and philosophy behind getting “beamed up.”

Officially, the beam dematerializes your body into energy, then reassembles said body from that energy at the intended destination, along with your original consciousness. 

But some argue every time a crew member does this, they actually die, and a new perfectly copied version of the previous person is “transported”.

In Mickey 17, you can talk about a number…

People really loved this film… I did not. It does have some really good things going for it, primarily the chemistry and performances of both Greta Lee and Teo Yoo. But this movie embodies such a surface level exploration of lost love that by the end it was hard for me to take it seriously, even with such a gut wrenching final scene. 

To be clear, not every movie has to be a full on inquiry of race, class, and…

Told entirely through Jong-su’s (Yoo Ah-in) perspective, what starts off as a would-be romance between him and his childhood neighbor Hae-mi (Jeon Jong-seo) carefully devolves into a slow burning mystery as Steven Yeun’s detached, playboy-ish character Ben suddenly materializes. 

The juxtaposition of Jong-su, a struggling writer who lives on a farm in the Korean countryside, and Ben is a really effective commentary on class. Jong-su drives a rickety pick-up truck: Ben drives a Porsche 911 parked in the garage of…