Osburnt: Dispatches From a Life Seared by the Arts

  • Ex Machina

    Ex Machina

    EX MACHINA is a sci-fi thriller from Alex Garland on the theme of artificial intelligence. It raises the familiar questions – moral, ethical, ontological, political – with which the issue is fraught. Is a fully realized AI effectively human, or its equivalent; is it conscious (whatever that means) and morally aware; would it have a…

  • Anna Karenina

    Anna Karenina

    I saw Joe Wright’s ANNA KARENINA a while ago and didn’t know what to think about it. This is not to say that I did not have feelings, thoughts, and sensations while watching it, that some of those were positive and some not, nor that I was not glad to have seen it (I was)…

  • A Royal Affair

    A Royal Affair

    I took great pleasure in A ROYAL AFFAIR. For one thing, it acquainted me for the first time with an historical event of considerable drama and importance, involving a struggle for the throne of Denmark that was a sort of proxy for the conflict between reaction and the Enlightenment that would lead just a few…