BLACK MIRROR – USS CALLISTER: INTO INFINITY REVIEW
In this bonus review, Sarah Jane, T.C., and Melina review the feature-length Black Mirror Season 7 episode USS Callister Into Infinity. It has been several months since the events of Black Mirror Season 4, Episode 1, USS Callister. The digitally cloned avatars who make up the crew of the space traveling ship, under the leadership of Captain Nanette Cole (Cristin Milioti), have been surviving in the juggernaut MMORPG “Infinity”, and to eke out their survival among the game’s pay-to-play nature, they take the role of space pirates to rob other players. Because they lack a gamer tag, they are also easy targets for players to try to attack. They realise that, to survive, they need to hack the Infinity servers to carve out a virtual space of their own, but this requires getting back Lt. Walton (Jimmy Simpson) – a digital clone of Callister’s CEO, James Walton – and then using the information Walton knows in order to travel into the “Heart of Infinity” and create this space. To check this one out, if you are a subscriber to One Of Us at the Brown Coat level or above, you can listen to it right here.
CREATED BY: Charlie Brooker
STARRING: Cristin Milioti, Jesse Plemons, Jimmi Simpson, Billy Magnussen, Milanka Brooks, Osy Ikhile, Paul G. Raymond
YOUR REVIEWERS
T.C. De Witt (Screener Squad)
T.C. De Witt is a multi-awarded writer/director originally from Wisconsin and now based in Los Angeles. His life has been devoted to the arts since he was a child. He’s been a stage performer, playwright, stand-up comic, film and television actor, radio DJ, podcaster published author, recorded musician, and comic writer/illustrator. He is now a professional screenwriter and has been thriving for the past decade, regularly offering his talents to production studios in LA, Chicago, Milwaukee, and internationally in Sydney and Poland. He’s provided content for Amazon Prime, Netflix, and several YouTube partners. His films have screened internationally, and his stageplays have been performed across the country. In the last ten years, he has directed 57 films, 23 episodes of his series The One Minute Rewatch, 300+ episodes of podcasts, and his multi-award-winning short film Screen: Righter screened at the Festival de Cannes in 2016. He has released two feature films, The Princess Knight and A Christmas Sunset. He thrives on collaboration and the thrill of sharing stories in all forms.
Sarah Jane (Highly Suspect Reviews, Screener Squad)
Sarah Jane was born and raised in Southern California but currently calls Austin, TX her home. She’s seen over 5,700 movies so far with zero plans on stopping. She has a penchant for all things exploitation, and she loves Godzilla with all her heart. Her favorite films are Deep Red, Le Samourai, and Miller’s Crossing. When she isn’t watching movies, she’s busy herding her four cats, her husband, and her 11-year-old kiddo. She’s been a contributor to TalkFilmSociety, Daily Grindhouse, FThisMovie!, Looper, and the Austin Chronicle. You can find her on Twitter and Letterboxd at @fookthis.
Melina Eames (Screener Squad)
Melina first discovered that she carried the nerd gene at the tender age of four following her exposure to a little film called A New Hope. In the twenty-some years that followed, Melina continued to grow into her geek identity through the discovery of Batman, Mst3k, Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings and The Mandalorian. But perhaps her most significant discovery came at the age of fourteen when a night of YouTube mining led her to the review site of Spill.com. Melina became a devoted follower whose fandom did not end with the site’s demise. By then, it had worked its dark magic and left her with a love and appreciation for film criticism that she has yet to shrug.
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