Do I miss the social experience of watching a film in the dark with other anonymous members of the community, plunging into a collective dreamscape? Not really. Today’s Hollywood auteurs are algorithms developing plot lines culled from data-mining the obsessions of 16-year olds from four years ago, when the movies went into production, with all the aesthetic efficacy of a flu shot based on a four-year old virus. More

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