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Tech NewsGood Night, Meat Prince
Bryan Menegus is one of the most frustrating editors I’ve ever worked with, which is to say he had annoying feedback like ‘Do you have a source on this?’, ‘This paragraph is complete gibberish’, ‘Did you forget to end this sentence?’, or ‘This is just totally factually wrong’. He also changed the structure of sentences … Continued
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io9The Best Sci-Fi Trips to Help You Escape…at Least for a Little While
What I wouldn’t give to travel again. To see someplace new. Visit someplace exotic. In The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy may say “There’s no place like home,” but she didn’t have to stay home for almost a full year during a pandemic. That desire to travel gets even stronger around the holidays. This is the … Continued
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io9A Handy Guide to the Best Genre Movies Streaming for Free on Peacock
As of this week, Peacock, NBC’s foray into the streaming wars, is now available in the U.S., and unlike competitors Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime, it just so happens to offer a free tier, something that immediately makes it worth considering. Along with a handful of original new series, Peacock arrives with a sizable library … Continued
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Tech NewsChina Using Drones in Increasingly Dystopian Ways to Combat Coronavirus Outbreak
Authorities in China have deployed drones to combat the spread of coronavirus in a variety of ways since the outbreak began, including disinfectant drones and drones that fly around with a loudspeaker to tell people they should keep their masks on. But there’s another way that police in China have started to use drones, and … Continued
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ScienceHealthAmerican Births Hit a 32-Year Low
Americans are continuing to have fewer and fewer children, according to a new government report released this week. Slightly fewer than 3.8 million children were born in 2018, the report found—a 2 percent decrease from 2017, and the lowest total number of births seen in 32 years. The fertility rate among women also reached a … Continued
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io9Movies12 Scifi Movies That Totally Deserved to Win Best Picture Before The Shape of Water
Look, The Shape of Water is great. Seriously, it is. But when you look at film history, the fact that The Shape of Water is the first science fiction film to ever win Best Picture is kind of weird. There have been decades and decades of phenomenal scifi films better than The Shape of Water, … Continued
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The Syrian Refugee Crisis Is Our Children of Men Moment
We often use old sci-fi movies as reference points for our own hopes and fears about our present reality. That computer interface is so Minority Report, we might say. That food is something out of Soylent Green. That building is so Jetsons. It’s imperfect, but it’s a shorthand to talk about the way that the … Continued
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io9MoviesThe 10 Most Shocking Bait-and-Switch Deaths of Major Characters
Killing off a major character is great way to up the stakes, create suspense, and show that this story isn’t going where you expect. Sometimes, a movie or TV show will go further and cast a famous name or create marketing that implies that a character will be around for a while, only for them … Continued
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Time for an edge-of-your-seat scary glimpse of Cuarón’s Gravity
Alfonso Cuaron rocked your world with Children of Men. But now he’s taking us into orbit with the “astronauts in danger” movie Gravity. And it is basically the most intense roller-coaster ride of the year, judging from the scenes we watched at Comic-Con just now. Spoilers ahead… Seriously. Fucking scary. This is not a meditative … Continued
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io9MoviesThis iconic scene from Children of Men was actually an accident
Director Alfonso Cuorón told a rapt Comic-Con audience yesterday how one of the most memorable scenes in his classic movie Children of Men was actually a mistake. In the scene, which you can see above, our group of subversives are attacked while in a car. The tricky part for the director was that it’s all … Continued
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12 Most Unfaithful Movie Versions of Science Fiction and Fantasy Books
Tomorrow, Max Brooks’ acclaimed novel World War Z becomes a movie… well, sort of. They kept the title. Actually, World War Z is just the latest in a long line of films that depart from the books so much, they’re basically a brand new story. Here are 12 science fiction and fantasy movies that toss … Continued
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10 Science Fiction Movies for People Who Think They Don’t Like Science Fiction
It’s that time of year when you wind up watching a lot of DVDs with your loved ones. And you rediscover the grand art of compromise. It’s hard to find movies that everybody wants to watch — especially if you want to watch something science fictional. How can you find science fiction movies to please … Continued
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Rian Johnson’s Looper is the futuristic noir movie we’ve been waiting for
Rian Johnson’s Brick made the unlikely fusion of noir and high-school drama into one of the decade’s most compelling films. So we were excited to read some script pages from his next movie, the futuristic Looper. Which is even better. Spoilers ahead… So we got hold of a bunch of script pages from Johnson’s Looper, … Continued
