Posts in 2026
From Silver Screens to Digital Screens: What Movies Teach Us About Technology and Risk

Technology is rarely presented as merely a collection of machines or software in a compelling film. Instead, it becomes part of a larger story about ambition, opportunity, uncertainty, and human behavior. Entrepreneurs and innovators can recognize these themes because building something new often involves many of the same emotional challenges that filmmakers place at the center of their stories.

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When the Screen Turns Risk Into a Story: What Movies Teach Us About Gambling and Decision-Making

Movies have a remarkable way of making complicated ideas feel personal. A financial decision that might seem dry in a spreadsheet can become gripping when it is placed in the hands of a fictional character with something important to lose. Gambling is particularly effective on screen because every wager immediately creates tension, uncertainty, and the possibility of a dramatic reversal.

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MOVIE REVIEW: Digger

Digger, with Alejandro González Iñárritu’s choices of layered implications that create a mystery as to the actual setting and time period in which all of this is taking place, invites the head-scratching question of whether one can make a satire and judge it at the same time, removing that latter participation step from the audience. Oh, the polarizing think pieces coming from this bleak and inky movie will fill volumes!

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MOVIE REVIEW: Heart of the Beast

Even with the presence of a bona fide Hollywood icon, the lasting enthrallment of Heart of the Beast belongs to that goddamn incredible dog. Where he grabs your gaze and devours your soul is in moments of stillness and focus. Uber will hold a remarkably firm look that will stare down and disarm any living thing in its gaze, be that a bear, a pack of wolves, Brad Pitt, or us—fixated on the big screen with wet corners filling our eyes.

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