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I Am Legend: Popular Mechanics Debunks Film's Science

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2007-12-18 12:46:36 by Variety.com * in Thompson On Hollywood
Popular Mechanics takes on the dubious science in I Am Legend , which is based on Richard Matheson's book--which tried to explain the science behind vampires! I think you're supposed to call it "suspension of disbelief Hat Tip: MCN
 
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Gibson Sues Over Popular Guitar Games

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2008-03-24 03:55:26 by Sam in Slice of SciFi
...popular video games Guitar Hero and Rock Band violate their 1999 patent for technology to simulate a musical performance that Gibson developed Activision, one of the main distributors for Rock Band, filed a preemptive counter-suit against Gibson early last month declaring that the famous guitar companys patent should be made invalid by the...
 
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Popular Mechanics Names 10 Most Prophetic Sci-Fi Films

2008-03-28 00:00:00 by Eugene Novikov in Cinematical
 
...Popular Mechanics has a great piece called "The 10 Most Prophetic Sci-Fi Movies Ever," discussing the movies whose predictions of the future turned out to be eerily accurate. (They also note what the films got wrong -- at least so far). The winner? Gattaca , whose vision of a world dominated by genetic profiling has gone from a far-fetched...
 
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John Scalzi - Why Tim Burton's Recurring Nightmare Remains So Popular

2008-08-28 00:00:58 by Editor in SciFi Scanner
 
A decade and a half after its 1993 release, this strange little musical is more popular than it was when it was released
 
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MIND MELD: The Future of Star Wars

2008-08-28 00:28:20 by JP in SF Signal
 
...popular culture is doing just fine, thanks. It's still one of the most popular franchises on the planet, and that's not likely to change any time soon, and the 1977 release of Star Wars will always be a benchmark in American film history regardless This same question came up repeatedly around the turn of the century regarding Star Trek . The...
 
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SF Tidbits for 8/28/08

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2008-08-28 00:06:01 by John in SF Signal
...Popular Cool gear: Keep your beer cold with this R2-D2 Fridge Lists VideoHound: 10 Truly Underrated Sci-Fi Movies . [via Wil Wheaton SciFi Scanner interviews Time senior writer Jeffrey Kluger (co-author of the book on which the film Apollo 13 was based) and lists Five Things You Didn't Know About Apollo 13 Code of Contact: Science Fiction...
 
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French comedies stay home

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2008-06-15 11:53:00 by Gareth in gareth's movie diary
...popular at home, and occasionally in neighbouring countries, but which remain invisible in the English-speaking world. While I'm sure the same phenomenon exists in other parts of the world, too, I'm not as familiar with the film industries of different Asian countries, for instance. Although Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis was an unexpectedly big...
 
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Sleepover Movie Review

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2007-04-10 03:57:00 by Kristine in Old and New Movie Reviews
...popular girls rivals. They enter it to cast off their less than cool reputation. Having joined on it they had to steal her friend dad's car, sneak into a club, and have a first kiss with her biggest crush Determined to win and overthrow the popular girls made of Stacie and Liz and some other social girls they push all their limits. With the...
 
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Richness, Intensity and Gesture: An Interview with Adrian Martin

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2008-01-20 18:50:00 by girish in girish
...popular among middlebrows), and Manny Farber only much later. Once I hit Teachers College at the age of 17, I was reading everything in the library: Noël Burchs Theory of Film Practice and Victor Perkins Film as Film , as utterly different as they are, were the key texts for me (as I described in an article in Undercurrent , they were my...
 
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MIND MELD: Science Fiction as a 'Geek' Genre

2008-02-20 00:28:19 by Editor in SF Signal
 
...popular, especially in movies ( The Matrix , Star Wars ) and TV ( Heroes , LOST