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Traumatic SFF Movie Moments (That I Loved and Watched Repeatedly)

As a child of the 80s, I grew up watching a lot of weird stuff. My parents love movies, from glorious technicolor musicals (hi, mom!) and classic comedies to Westerns and all Kubrick films (hey, dad!),...

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You Have No Choice But to Cry When Watching The Iron Giant for the First Time

Tor.com has done the impossible: It’s found someone who hasn’t seen The Iron Giant. But while I had never watched the movie, I was well aware of the emotional real estate it had carved into the hearts...

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Traumatic SFF Movie Moments (That I Loved and Watched Repeatedly)

(This is rerun of a post that originally ran on August 5th, 2015.) As a child of the 80s, I grew up watching a lot of weird stuff. My parents love movies, from glorious technicolor musicals (hi, mom!)...

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Check out the Trailer for the Iron Giant Documentary, The Giant’s Dream!

A long time ago, in a world much like our own, a young animator named Brad Bird attempted to make the Greatest Animated Film of All Time. Some say he succeeded, but alas, his film, The Iron Giant,...

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10 Human Rights That Robots Deserve

We’ve come a long way from Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics, which dictated to what extent robots could protect their own existence without violating constraints about harming humans; or the Star Trek:...

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“Superman” Returns: The Iron Giant is in the Ready Player One Teaser Trailer

Warner Bros. debuted the first footage from Ernest Cline’s “Holy Grail of pop culture” (OK, guys) directed by “cinematic gamechanger” Steven Spielberg, and—you know what’s more interesting than those...

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15 of Our Favorite Character Resurrections in SFF

Resurrection isn’t just the basis for several long-running religions, it can also make for a game-changing plot point in fiction. After all, death is quite a hard reboot, and sometimes killing a...

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The Greatest Science Fiction Robots of All Time

Yesterday I got a phone call from a robot. No kidding, a robot. If this had happened when I was 10, you never would’ve gotten me off the phone. I would have excitedly talked that robot, who’d...

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Was 1999 the Year Nerd Culture Began to Take Over the World?

In the transcendental year of 1999, it became clear to me that I was extremely cool. No, that’s a lie, please don’t take that declaration even remotely seriously. I was twelve and thirteen years old in...

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20 Years Later, the Message of The Iron Giant Is More Urgent Than Ever

With its opening shot of Sputnik in orbit and its milieu of Red Scare paranoia, fallout drills, and cool beatniks antagonizing shady government agents, The Iron Giant was a throwback when it premiered...

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The Year Nerd Culture Took Over the Mainstream

In the transcendental year of 1999, it became clear to me that I was extremely cool. No, that’s a lie, please don’t take that declaration even remotely seriously. I was twelve and thirteen years old in...

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9 Thrilling Last Stands in Genre Fiction

There is nothing quite as thrilling as a last stand. You cannot help but admire characters who stand little chance of survival, but they still draw a line in the sand and hold firm against overwhelming...

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Six of the Best Flying Scenes in Animation

One of my favorite things about animated films is the ways in which they’re able to push the boundaries of reality. This is particularly true when it comes to depictions of flight—flying sequences can,...

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