arrival
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5 Alien First Contacts That Went Really Well, And 5 That Didn’t
Image: WB For eons, humankind has looked up to the sky and wondered if it was alone. While we still haven’t answered that question just yet, fiction has stepped in to show us what that moment of first contact might look like. Sometimes it has led to a golden age of human space exploration. Sometimes,…
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Mondo’s Poster For Arrival Is Simple, Stunning And Very, Very Sad
In our minds, there was no better genre film last year than Arrival. There are lots of reasons for that, but the main one is the film’s dual nature. The first time you watch it is completely different than the second time, once you know its secret.
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The 10 Best (And Five Worst) Genre Movies Of 2016
The films the io9 team has picked as the best science fiction and genre films of 2016 are a very motley crew. This year we loved superheroes, animation, farting corpses, live action, talking animals, and more. These are films spanning different genres, disciplines, and themes, which experienced varied levels of success. Each is worthy of…
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The Voynich Manuscript: A 700 Year Old Coded Book That Hasn’t Been Cracked
Perhaps the world’s greatest literary mystery, the Voynich Manuscript has been plaguing code crackers for roughly 700 years. At 240 pages, the medieval manuscript is written in an unknown or coded language and filled with pictures of exotic plants, naked figures and the stars. Nobody knows what it actually is, or where it originated.