I cover the film industry. Wally Pfister's Transcendence is a series of somewhat old-school ideas about technology in search of a movie in which to contain them. That its ideas about artificial ...

“Transcendence” is a rarity among modern blockbusters. In place of flying men in tights and massive explosions, its biggest special effects are its ideas. The film centers on a group of scientists led ...

“Transcendence” tries to pass itself off as a techno-thriller, but techno-bore is more like it. The visually stunning sci-fi flick is all flash but no substance. The Johnny Depp vehicle has some ...

What Is Self-Transcendence? Imagine climbing a mountain, not to plant your flag at the top, but to see the world beyond and understand your place within it. This is the essence of self-transcendence.

“Transcendence,” the directorial debut of cinematographer Wally Pfister (“The Dark Knight”) is a sleek, smart techno-thriller loaded with interesting ideas — until it stops being any of those things.

Transcendence came out on DVD this last Tuesday (July 22). A movie about a singularity-hoping-Kurzweil-like scientist who uploads his consciousness into the world's greatest computer, it was a flop at ...

I saw the movie Transcendence last week, and it was an impressive telling of what might happen were we to achieve singularity. Given this is likely where AI research is taking us and that analytics is ...

I can save you some time; there are weeks and years when film critics have no higher purpose than that. Emerging from the mouth of Moloch in the same gasp as the new movie, Transcendence, is a ...

HAL has come a long way. First, we had Scarlett Johansson as a human-like operating system. Now, Johnny Depp has been uploaded. If the singularity — when artificial intelligence surpasses human smarts ...

Transcendence is an ambitious and provocative film about the perils and pleasures of artificial intelligence that is intriguingly balanced between being a warning and a celebration. Filmmakers have ...

Though its plot and premise are pure science fiction, “Transcendence” goes pleasingly against the genre grain. A story of the possible perils and pleasures of artificial intelligence that stars Johnny ...