Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you’re a computer-age citizen who's old enough to remember those benchmarks of pre-internet adjustment, when personal computing ...

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Albert Birney’s OBEX is a dark, twisted, and nonsensical fantasy about a man who gets sucked into a video game and forced to fend for his life while trying to recover his most trusted companion; a ...

Albert Birney’s endearingly crafted, black-and-white idiosyncratic vision of a life consumed by media dabbles in darkness while on a quest to its life-affirming intent. This ingenious fantasy about ...

Hannah has been writing about horror, sci-fi, and all things nerdy since 2021. At Collider, she covers news and conducts interviews, along with contributing features that dive deep into genre ...

In OBEX, the secluded Conor finds his life take a turn for the worse when a state-of-the-art computer game begins to intrude into his reality. The film, directed by Albert Birney (The Strawberry ...

Albert Birney didn’t set out to make a “video game movie.” It just kinda… happened. Between larger projects — including a follow-up to 2021’s Strawberry Mansion, the surrealist fantasy he co-directed ...

Albert Birney, Writer/Director of 2025 Sundance breakout Obex, is one of the coolest people I’ve ever talked to. That might have something to do with Obex feeling tailor-made just for me—the kind of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hand-labeled VHS tapes line the shelves of the living room where Conor Marsh (Albert Birney), a 36-year-old man living alone with ...

If you’re a computer-age citizen who’s old enough to remember those benchmarks of pre-internet adjustment, when personal computing went from toy hobby to addictive portal to worrisomely ubiquitous ...