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This Essay on Being the Only Black Person at a Science Fiction Event is...
Now that Lightspeed Magazine has published its ultra-successful issues featuring stories by women and queers (who “destroyed” genres like fantasy and science fiction), it’s the turn of people of color....
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The Sequel To Deadpool Is Already Being Written, Because Of Course
Deadpool is still a few days from being unleashed on the public and a new report suggests it won’t be the last time. The Hollywood Reporter says the film’s writers are already hard at work on a...
View ArticleThis Stop Motion Short About Robots Packs in a Surprising Amount of Action
“Battery Life” is about a family of robots living in a sandy dystopia, while a nearby robot citadel is run by a robot zealot. For an 11-minute short, writer/director/animator Justin Nixon manages to do...
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You Could Win All 6 Mind-Blowing Finalists for the Philip K. Dick Award
The Philip K. Dick Award celebrates the best science fiction books released first in paperback form. That combination of excellence and skipping the fancy hardcover edition tends to favor books that...
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Universal Just Cast Johnny Depp In The Invisible Man
Last month, Universal confirmed that it had cast Tom Cruise in 2017's The Mummy. And the studio’s monster madness continues with similarly massive star power, with the news that Johnny Depp has signed...
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One Comic That Explains Why Superheroes Didn’t Just Immediately Win World War II
The first time I read All-Star Squadron #20, somewhere in my pre-teens, it blew me away. There it was, the answer to the question I didn’t even know I had: how come superheroes don’t just fix...
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9 Blatant Lies About Pop Culture That Everybody Instantly Saw Straight Through
These days, creators struggle to keep the details of their upcoming movies and TV shows from leaking on the internet, so they can preserve their big surprises. And this leads to some pretty feeble...
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We're Entering a Golden Age of Space Tourism Propaganda [Updated]
Whether they’re selling tickets to orbit or making sure the science funding keeps flowing, rocket companies and space agencies alike have a vested interest in getting the public jazzed about the cosmic...
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How Star Wars: The Force Awakens Really Should Have Ended
Everyone had a good time watching the new Star Wars so let’s not get angry and accuse each other of not enjoying the very idea of fun. But still, as with every other movie, there were a few problems...
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A Bizarre Star Wars Mystery Has Finally Been Solved
How do you appear in one of the biggest movies of all time without anyone, including the people who worked on the movie, knowing your name? You’d have to ask BoShek, the gloriously sideburned human...
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A Producer Is Tweeting Descriptions of Women from Movie Scripts and It's...
Ross Putman is a film producer with a few credits under his belt, and now he’s started a Twitter feed where he just tweets the initial descriptions of female main characters in the movie scripts he’s...
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Watch the First Four Minutes of This Sunday's Walking Dead Mid-Season...
This Sunday, The Walking Dead returns for the second half of its sixth season, but let’s be honest—you don’t want to wait that long. AMC to the rescue! Thankfully, the network just posted the first...
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Hayley Atwell's Got a New Job, But What About Agent Carter?
Hayley Atwell’s been cast as the lead in ABC’s Conviction. Which is great for her, but does make us wonder if this means that Agent Carter is done after its second season.Conviction has Atwell playing...
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9 Quick Facts That You Might Not Know About Quentin Tarantino Movies
If you think you know Quentin Tarantino movies, you probably do. You know all about the shots he loves and the connected universe of his movies and the Red Apple cigarettes and the relationships each...
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Hollywood Is Trying To Make A Battlestar Galactica Movie—Again
Battlestar Galactica is a beloved space opera franchise, but many people are only slightly familiar with its premise, beyond killer robots and spaceships. That combination of name recognition and an...
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A Chat With the Producer Calling Out Sexist Descriptions of Women in Scripts...
Filmmaker Ross Putman struck a nerve Tuesday night when he started a Twitter account that only tweets the first descriptions of female characters in film scripts. Surprise surprise: they’re usually...
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This Legendary Slasher Flick Finally Has a Blu-ray That Captures Its...
Pieces might sound like a lot of other early 1980s slasher films, since it’s about a shadowy maniac who chops up pretty college girls. But anyone who’s seen it knows that Pieces is one of the most WTF...
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I Just Watched My First Pewdiepie Video and Now I Feel Old and Irrelevant
Against my better judgment, I surrendered my credit card information to YouTube today so that I could watch the first episode of the first YouTube Red original series: Scare Pewdiepie. It stars...
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In Three Pages, This Week's Darth Vader Comic Shows Us the Ballsiest Thing...
I genuinely love Kieron Gillen, Salvador Larocca, and Edgar Delgado’s work on the Darth Vader comic. The team has completely nailed what makes Vader a terrifyingly powerful, yet funny character. Case...
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The Struggles And Triumphs Of Black Cosplay
Cosplay has always prided itself on its ability to transform fans into their heroes, wherever and whoever they are. In theory, at least. In practice, things haven’t always been that perfect, especially...
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