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question of the day: What’s your favorite or most powerful memory of a communal moviegoing experience?

Mon, Aug 29, 2011
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If you’ve seen Rise of the Planet of the Apes, you may have experienced a phenomenon that’s been reported by many moviegoers this summer, of one particular moment causing the entire crowd to gasp in stunned shock…

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question of the weekend: Why are people terrified of creative ideas?

Sat, Aug 27, 2011
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A fascinating and distressing article at science news site Physorg.com yesterday reported on a study that people are biased against creative ideas. Even relatively innocuous ones…

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question of the day: Are “slave Leias” and other “sexy” geek costumes feminist and empowering, demeaning and sexist, or something in between?

Fri, Aug 26, 2011
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Inspired by “‘Geek girls’ and the problem of self-objectification” by Courtney Stoker at GeekFeminist.org…

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question of the day: What actor(s) would you bring forward or send backward in time so they could work with stars of other eras?

Thu, Aug 25, 2011
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Which noncontemporaries would you pair them with, and what kind of movie would they make?

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question of the day: What would you name a fictional spaceship?

Wed, Aug 24, 2011
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No-budget indie LVJ, now in production, wants you to name its fleet of space fighter planes. But this QOTD stretches as far as your science fiction imagination can take you…

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question of the day: Why has the depiction of suicide in movies tripled over the past half century?

Tue, Aug 23, 2011
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Is it just that violence overall has increased in movies since 1950? Have we become a more despairing society since then? Is there something else at work?

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question of the day: What’s the next “interactive” gimmick Hollywood will come up with… or revive from the past?

Mon, Aug 22, 2011
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Scratch-and-sniff is back with Spy Kids 4. What’s next?

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question of the weekend: What is the most unforgivable fashion faux pas?

Sat, Aug 20, 2011
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Brown business suits? White after Labor Day? Socks with sandals?

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question of the day: Is science fiction on the rise in Hollywood?

Fri, Aug 19, 2011
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Do new remakes, reboots, sequels, and prequels indicate a suddenly love of SF in Hollywood?

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question of the day: Who are the coolest scientists on TV or in movies?

Thu, Aug 18, 2011
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Mine is a no-brainer: it’s the Doctor, of course. Though Buckaroo Banzai would come a close second.

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