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Daleks Will Repair, Exterminate, Perform Maintenance in Your Home
Need an apartment cleaning service? We recommend these spectacular Daleks guys. They can do just about anything (including extermination!), though they do seem to have a lot of medical emergencies....
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Morning Roundup: Vintage Carrie Fisher is Adorable
We think Carrie Fisher is sort of rocking the Annie Hall look in this picture. It’s adorable. We’re working on putting together this outfit right now. The rest of our offsite links aren’t near as cute,...
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Cars 2 Loves You, No Mater What
Cars 2 is probably nobody’s favorite Pixar movie. It is the easiest to shrug off, anyway, a sequel to the other Pixar movie that is nobody’s favorite and a critical flop besides. Of course when I say...
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What Everybody Gets Wrong About Jekyll and Hyde
And when I say everybody, I mean everybody. Not just most people today don’t understand the original story—though that’s true—but every retelling of the story, from the earliest stage plays to Steven...
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Mothers, Daughters and Mis-titles: Brave
Brave should have had a different name.I’m not saying that the film was an utter disaster... merely that they may have employed a misnomer in service of their title. The film is not really about...
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Malazan Re-read of the Fallen: The Bonehunters, Epilogue
Just a few notes:With the recent addition of Orb, Sceptre, Throne to the series we’re considering changing the reread book order, but we’d like your input! Vote in the comment section as to your...
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A Read of Ice and Fire: A Clash of Kings, Part 24
Welcome back to A Read of Ice and Fire! Please join me as I read and react, for the very first time, to George R.R. Martin’s epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire.Today’s entry is Part 24 of A...
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Hey Girls, You Can Make Lipstick With Science!
Have you seen Europe’s latest attempt to get women into science?It seems that we’re officially on a hard move toward perfect gender equality in marketing. (I know the internet doesn’t do sarcasm well,...
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Pixar: Two Early Works
Brave is Pixar’s 13th feature but the studio started by making short films and they are still an important part of the studio. John Lasseter has stated that making shorts was a great way for him to...
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Dark Companion (Excerpt)
Enjoy this excerpt from Marta Acosta’s Dark Companion, out on July 3:Orphaned at the age of six, Jane Williams has grown up in a series of foster homes, learning to survive in the shadows of life....
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Star Trek: The Next Generation Rewatch: “The Game”
“The Game”Written by Susan Sackett & Fred Bronson and Brannon BragaDirected by Corey AllenSeason 5, Episode 6Production episode 40275-206Original air date: October 28, 1991Stardate:...
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Level Up: How To Create A Better Video Game Movie
In a recent article, I went through some of the ways that comic book films have evolved from a cringe-worthy medium into the Hollywood blockbusters of today. As I described, comic books have come a...
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Saturday Morning Cartoons: “Pencil Test” and “Day & Night”
Pencil Test: Long before Galyn Susman starred in The Movie Vanishes, she worked on this short using a Mac computer ad (I imagine) lots of patience and hard work. (3:03 minutes)Day & Night: One of...
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For Alan Turing’s Birthday: A LEGO Turing Machine
Today is the 100th birthday of the late Alan Turing, famed mathematician and computer scientist responsible for most concepts relating to algorithms and computations. Turing invented the “Turing...
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Morning Roundup: “Goo” is Just “Good” Without the D
The great thing about the Internet is how it almost feels faster-than-light. Prometheus has only been out for a few weeks and already there is this totally convincing spoof-video about the “science”...
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Life After Cancellation: 6 Shows That Deserve Netflix Resurrection
Everyone’s experienced the crushing sorrow of seeing a favorite new TV series cancelled just when things were getting interesting. Networks pick up a handful of new shows each season and just when...
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Queering SFF – Pride Month Extravaganza: Here, We Cross Edited by Rose Lemberg
Released at WisCon 36, Rose Lemberg’s short collection of speculative poetry Here, We Cross gathers poems that deal with issues of gender, sexuality, and identity from the seven current issues of Stone...
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Tell Us How George Orwell Changed the Way You Read
Today is the 109th birthday of the late author George Orwell. Hailing from London, Orwell permanently insinuated himself into modern and post-modern literary discussions by bonking the culture on the...
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A Read of the Dark Tower: Constant Reader Tackles Wizard and Glass, “Susan”:...
“Cast your nets, wanderers! Try me with your questions, and let the contest begin.”—Blaine the Mono, to Roland and the Ka-Tet, at the end of The Waste LandsWelcome to A Read of the Dark Tower series....
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Blade Runner Debuted 30 Years Ago Today. What Would PKD Have Thought?
Today, June 25th, marks 30 years since Blade Runner debuted in theaters. This film adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is now considered a staple of science...
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