nanotechnology in fiction
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Terminator is Back, This Time as An Anime
The Terminator franchise is making a comeback, but as an anime series for Netflix. During the streamer’s Geeked Week event, it showed a small teaser for the upcoming series. Heading up production will be The Batman Part II’s Mattson Tomlin leading writing duties, while Masashi Kudo (a character designer on Bleach will direct the eight-episode…
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DC Comics’ Newest Crisis Won’t Reboot the DC Universe, Thank God
Every time the DC Comics universe has gone into Crisis mode, the ramifications have been huge. Crisis on Infinite Earths, Identity Crisis, Infinite Crisis, Final Crisis — all of them managed to rejigger its continuity in some way. So it’s genuinely refreshing to find out that Dark Crisis, DC’s next big comic event, won’t be…
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Last Action Hero Is an Underappreciated Time Capsule of Meta-Movie-Magic
“Last Action Hero is a joyless, soulless machine of a movie. An $US80 (A$108) million-plus mishmash of fantasy, industry in-jokes, self-referential parody, film-buff gags, and too-big action set-pieces.” That’s what the Hollywood trade Variety wrote in late 1992 just before the Arnold Schwarzenegger-led, John McTiernan-directed, self-referential action film was released. Looking back, it’s definitely one…
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G.I. Joe’s Real-Life Connection Between Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow
In the mythology of G.I. Joe, the link between Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow is dense and complex. The two fought together, trained together, and became as close as brothers — only to eventually turn into bitter rivals. That relationship carries over not just into the new movie, Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins, but its…