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My copy of The Devil in Silver. I’m currently reading The Devil in Silver by Victor LaValle, which is the source for the next series of the horror anthology series The Terror . As Dan Simmons, who wrote The Terror , the historical Arctic horror that was adapted for the first series, has recently died, and as there are several horror adaptations on the horizon, I thought I’d look at what feels like a fairly modern debate – do you adapt for movie or TV? Now, when I say TV, I’m
Visually and conceptually, the film is ambitious. Long shots in the daylight despite it's dark nature creates an imbalance of safety, and allows the narrative to force your brain into going back and forth on what is truly happening. The composition is brilliant, the tension never misses, and if not for the final sequences I would be singing it's praises as a masterpiece.
Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) expresses how I feel when an AI bro sounds off. Still from Daredevil series 3 Recently my social media feeds started showing me clips generated by an artificial intelligence (AI) engine called Seedance 2.0. These were all clips of fight scenes that the poster was breathlessly claiming needed ‘just one prompt’. Wolverine fighting Superman, Godzilla versus King Kong, Terminator fighting Robocop, there were plenty, all of which proclaimed that this vi
