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This is a really tricky area and a possible precedent-setter for ‘fan films’ versus licensed properties.

For a long time the general rule-of-thumb was “if it doesn’t charge any money or make any claim to being licensed, it’s fair game to let fans make it.” But this isn’t entirely true. Remember that part of what…

When discussing ‘successful’ versus ‘unsuccessful’ reboots with all that came out this year to various degrees of achievement, I’ve been wondering if the barometer of best measurement is did the reboot succeed or fail in a series that is much-loved (in which case the bar of expectation is really pretty high and…

Ah yes the country, but were there MEXICANS there yet? I’m skeptical.

I heard that Mexicans weren’t invented until 1917.

No? Nothing more? Good. Maybe that means you learned something. Happy New Year.

“Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” is an excellent read, and certainly the fact that it inspired Blade Runner is important...but Blade Runner as cyberpunk stands somewhat on its own because Dick’s work was fairly far-removed in the actual mood and atmosphere versus what Ridley Scott’s production ultimately created…

I tried to enjoy most of this episode as one of those ‘givens’ that we have come to take Christmas specials for—barely canon or continuity and mostly for fun. But I have to agree with Matt Smith’s protest that River Song should not have been introduced into the Capaldi run. Mainly for the reason you state in your…

Good to see "passive eugenics" taking place. No cures for cancer being lost or debilitated here...

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Lando Calrissian on Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” album cover. With such fitting songs as “You Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’” and “Beat It.”

No, I caught where you liked it. What I was remarking upon was the fact that you took the time to apparently interpret a ‘pro Obama assassination’ element that I don’t think is actually in the movie. Whether you liked the overall movie or not is not germane to the discussion YOUR remark invoked, namely this aspect of…

I can’t be the only one seeing that Joker and thinking this guy would’ve been a hell of a spot-on body double if Nolan had tried to resurrect the character for the last Dark Knight film. That is frighteningly accurate down to the slight weary-manic eyes.

I am assuming you’re an American, because the “pro-Obama assassination” angle feels very narrow. Virtually every world leader is assassinated as part of the plot; it’s ultimately no more “pro-Obama” assassination than “pro-Prime Minister of England,” “pro-Chancellor of Germany,” etc. maybe only because our country is…

What I basically heard from this article:

Suddenly I felt a disturbance...as of millions of geeks, orgasming simultaneously.

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY GALACTIC CREDITS!

“The Prestige” and “The Illusionist” came out at nearly the same time, and both involve Victorian-era magic...aside from that there is virtually no plot similarity. One is about a fictitious pair of competing magicians who escalate the misery of their lives in pursuit of out-doing each other and end up transcending…

I’ve already perfected a small-scale Dyson sphere in my neighborhood.

I remember going alone to the movies one afternoon to see this. I was of course a huge He-Man fan (I can still recall summers with the faint, vaguely chemical-vanilla smell of the Hordak’s Slime Pit ooze that you could leave to harden to a crusted, strangely puddinged lump on any shag carpet).

Hey, Mont Blanc...get on giving us a pen version of that new screwdriver. Stat.