The period comedy "Computer Chess" pays homage to a time in the not-so-distant past that feels like ancient history. A time-capsule look at computer-nerd culture in 1980, Andrew Bujalski's unabashedly ...

Maybe it has to do with having programmed a computer in high school in the first half of the seventies—a computer the size of a double-wide fridge and covered with blinking lights. Our after-school ...

Back before computer nerds (and the artificial intelligence they created) inherited the earth, these pasty-faced programmers seemed like little more than socially awkward A/V geeks who had graduated ...

Black comedy. Starring Patrick Riester, Gerald Peary and Myles Paige. Directed by Andrew Bujalski. (Not rated. 92 minutes.) "Computer Chess" is a lot of things, a satire about the dawn of the computer ...

Within the first few minutes of Computer Chess something seems awry. It looks like a documentary (or maybe a faux-documentary?) But then the audience's view begins to cut to different vantage points ...

Andrew Bujalski is neither a computer whiz nor a chess genius. “I was never any good at chess, never had the discipline to get better, and don’t have any openings memorized or anything like that. Any ...

People who devote their lives to puzzling over the myriad mysteries of a chessboard are rarely known for their social skills. Ditto the computer programmers who dream in code. So a movie about ...

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