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Sleep Dealer (2008)

After completion of a US/Mexico border wall, would be immigrants find another way to dissolve it.  “Cybraceros” plug sockets into their flesh and jack into remote robots– getting the Americans “work without the workers.”   Follow hardware hacker Memo as he discovers the price of curiosity in this corporate run mediocracy, in a world that only drains resources to destroy communities.  Sleep Dealer is a smart take on real issues, with moments of profundity and just enough budget to get it done.  Featuring Drone Strikes, Nestle Water, Trumps Daft Wall, Aqua-Terrorism, Luis Fernando Pena, Leonor Varela & Aspiring CGI.  Directed by Alex Rivera.

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Star Trek: First Contact (1996)  8/14

A cyborg hive mind warps into the past to inject shades of 90’s industrial goth into a post nuclear 21st century earth.  The fate of the world rests on boostraping a Titan II ballistic missile into a warp speed Cochran-Rocket.  Can Captain Picard and his humanist dreamteam keep everyone un-augmented, un-hacked and drill-for-an appendage free? Can android Data resist his first hive-mind blow job?  Featuring Laser-Eyes, Star Trek TNG, The Borg, Babe’s Farmer Cromwell  & Alfre Woodard.  Directed by Jonathan Frakes.

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Harcdore Henry  (2015)

Resurrected aboard a milspec skylab, cyborg Henry awakens bare-metal fisted, mute and in love.  But it is the will of Akan-- a ruthless autocrat with telekinetic power, which brutalizes endless violence upon Henry.  Can Henry save his love with raw adrenaline action and disorderly clones?  Featuring First Person Shooter Action, Go-Pro, Sharlto Copely, Danila Kozlovsky and Haley Bennet.  Directed by Ilya Naishuller

*we won’t be pre-empted this time :)

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wall-e (2008)

The world has been over-consumed into an apocalyptic, arid oblivion, in which the ignored consequences of climate change, corporate rule and pollution have rendered humanity lethargic, stupid and space bound.  A single custodial robot (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) toils at task to salvage the earth, and to keep his short circuits safe enough to help a pet ‘roach friend.  Enter Eve, the sleek robot probe that starts Wall-e on a space faring quest through robot riots, human friendship and pixar love.  Featuring: SPACE!!!, Sigourney HAL Weaver, Jeff Garlin and Fred Willard.  Directed by Andrew Stanton.

illustration by shannon may

[cyberpunkcinema]

Compile for tomorrow with Wall-E tonight!

6:30pm :: Random Cowboy Bebop Episode 7:00 :: Trailers and Ephemera 7:20 :: The Fifth Element (98 minutes)

Free knockout Karaoke after :)

[cyberpunkcinema]

Hey Space Cowboy!!  Looking for what we’ve already watched?  Here’s our list as of Dec 2016

Trancers, december 2015

Demolition Man, november 2015

The Lawnmower Man, october 2015

Hardware, September 2015

The X-files (two Gibson episodes), august 2015

Freejack, july 2015

Blade Runner, june 2015

Cowboy Bebop: Knocking on Heavens Door, may 2015

Idiocracy, april 2015

π (pi), (reprise) march 2015

Terminator 2, february 2015

The matrix, january 2015

Brazil, december 2015

Screamers, november 9th

Metropolis (2001), october 2015

The Running Man, sept 2015

aug 2015–cancelled–

Repoman, july 2015

eXistenZ, june 2015

π (pi), may 2015

Dredd, april 2015

Akira, march 2015

Max Headroom–“20 Minutes Into the Future," february 2015

Escape From New York, january 2015

Strange Days, december 2014

Ghost in the Shell (1995, original), november 2014

Videodrome, october 2014

Total Recall (1990, Mindbending Director’s Cut), september 2014

Tetsuo the Iron Man & Liquid Television, august 2014

Hackers, july 2014

The Terminator, june 2014T

Robocop (Extended Cut), may 2014

Johnny Mnemonic (JM japanese edition), april 2014

[takeeachdayonebookatatime]

The Knockout

"A rising star in Muay Thai figures out what (and who) is worth fighting for in this #ownvoices YA debut full of heart.

If seventeen-year-old Kareena Thakkar is going to alienate herself from the entire Indian community, she might as well do it gloriously. She's landed the chance of a lifetime, an invitation to the US Muay Thai Open, which could lead to a spot on the first-ever Olympic team. If only her sport wasn't seen as something too rough for girls, something she's afraid to share with anyone outside of her family. Despite pleasing her parents, exceling at school, and making plans to get her family out of debt, Kareena's never felt quite Indian enough, and her training is only making it worse.

Which is inconvenient, since she's starting to fall for Amit Patel, who just might be the world's most perfect Indian. Admitting her feelings for Amit will cost Kareena more than just her pride-she'll have to face his parents' disapproval, battle her own insecurities, and remain focused for the big fight. Kareena's bid for the Olympics could very well make history-if she has the courage to go for it."

Link to buy the book

https://www.amazon.com/Knockout-Sajni-Patel/dp/1635830591

[cyberpunkcinema]

JM (1995) 4/8 @theknockoutsf

Based on the story from Burning Chrome and penned for the screen by William Gibson, this japanese version of Johnny Mnemonic features more yakuza, more Beat Takeshi and a different soundtrack. Can a mnemonic courier navigate New Jersey sprawl to save the world from nerve attenuation syndrome, all with the help of a drug-addled dolphin? Includes vintage cgi and the first "iphone." With Keanu, Dolph, Rollins, takeshi, Ice-t and Dina Molly Millions Meyer. Released nineteen-ninety-Five.

It’s our ten year anniversary! Please join us for this encore showing of JM–the very first movie we watched so many years ago! Fair warning space cowboys– there may be a quiz/trivia and prizes for this special edition of CYBERPUNK CINEMA!

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