I'm never convinced that the science-fiction effect of Ino's roof the Capitolia dome, copied from the US Capitol Building, looms gigantically and looks about to collide, like the rogue planet in Melancholia justifies the risk of plunging to a certain skull fracture by setting foot on Ino's staircase.
In its choice of milieu — science fiction — Mass Effect is not ambitious at all.
Other comic actors have dabbled in metaphysics, but when Adam Sandler channel-surfs his life via remote control in "Click," or Will Ferrell finds that he is the creation of a blocked novelist in "Stranger Than Fiction," the effect is murky or strained.
Realistic fiction, special effects and virtual reality are the hottest modes of the season in contemporary life.
But despite being a fiction, its effects are so real in our lives that it can be difficult to imagine ourselves outside our present hell.
Palash's disc is less meditative; the beats are embellished with all sorts of science-fiction sound effects.
Mr. Reed, whose stage name was Syke Dyke, toyed with his keyboards to create flashy electronic noises that could resemble science-fiction sound effects.
Back to the Future Eric Stoltz, the ginger-haired Pulp Fiction and Butterfly Effect actor, was originally cast as Marty McFly.
The question my friend is asked is born of the Rain Man effect; fiction and the media are full of cases of art/maths/music savants with autism.
Just raising the subject shatters a soft-edged communal fiction to the effect that ground zero, hallowed by horror and silent since the last steel column was removed in May, awaits a distant fate.
When Samuel L Jackson appeared on the Graham Norton Show over the weekend, the actor demonstrated he's still capable of reeling off the Ezekiel 35:17 speech from Pulp Fiction to chilling effect.
