S1M0NE • Member Bonus

Podcast: The Next Reel Film Podcast · TruStory FM

Opublikowano: 2026-04-30

The Thinking Machines series concludes with the April member bonus: "S1M0NE," Andrew Niccol's satirical science fiction comedy about Viktor Taransky, a fading Hollywood director played by Al Pacino, who inherits a program capable of generating a digital actress—and unleashes her on an unsuspecting world alongside Catherine Keener as his producer ex-wife and Winona Ryder as the star she replaces. Pete and Andy take apart the film's central failure—Simone is a puppet, not an AI, which means the Frankenstein premise the film keeps setting up never pays off—and debate whether Niccol's Hollywood satire ever f...