Inverting Lovecraft
The works of H. P. Lovecraft have inspired a number of Black creators and other writers of color, from the new HBO series Lovecraft Country...
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Latest firstOnce and Future Comic Con
San Diego Comic Con is the high holiday of geekiness where fans converge to cosplay, buy collectables, show their appreciation to creators,...
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Making Up Creatures
If we ever make contact with aliens, they probably won’t look like humans with pointy ears or bumpy noses, but creature makeup design is...
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Larping in Place
Live theater has been shut down across the country, but live action role play (“larp” for short) is finding new ways to thrive in digital...
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Time Travel Therapy
Time travel is one of my favorite genres, and it’s also my go-to daydream. But I’ve begun to wonder whether time travel fantasies are a...
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The Curse of The Curse
When things go wrong, it’s tempting to say something’s cursed as a joke. But when things go dreadfully wrong on horror movie sets, some...
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Toy Stories
Many of us have imaginary friends when we’re young in the guise of a doll, stuffed animal or toy that give us a sense of comfort. Then we...
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Solarpunk the Future
Cyberpunk was cool. Steampunk was hip. Get ready for Solarpunk. This new emerging genre of art and fiction imagines a future where DIY...
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Fighting a Virtual Pandemic
In 2005, the multiplayer online game World of Warcraft was taken over by a virus called Corrupted Blood, and the virtual pandemic in this...
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Retcon-apalooza
We're craving an escape into our favorite fantasy worlds, but fans are complaining that all the "retconning" is ruining their suspension of...
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Making The Good Places Better
The Good Place just ended after four critically acclaimed seasons, and it was one of several recent TV shows to imagine the afterlife as...
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Truth, Justice and The American Way
Tracing the history of the superhero genre can reveal a lot about how we understand our own history, and how history gets whitewashed....
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2001: A Filmmaking Odyssey
2001: A Space Odyssey is considered a masterpiece, and a game changer for sci-fi on film. But the movie had a tumultuous origin story, and...
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Queen of Tarot
When it comes to tarot cards, there is an artistry to designing a world of emperors, fools, priestesses, hermits and other iconic figures....
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Fear of The Borg
Patrick Stewart is reprising his role as Jean-Luc Picard in the new TV series “Picard,” where the writers have promised a very different...
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In Defense of The Star Wars Holiday Special
As far as Star Wars fans are concerned, there is no greater hive of scum and villainy than the 1978 made-for-TV Star Wars Holiday Special....
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Can Villains Be Good?
What does it take for a villain to be redeemed? That’s not a theoretical question when that villain is Kylo Ren who may or may not be...
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My So Called Evil Plan
Villains are having a moment. They’re getting their own movies, they’re inspiring hashtags that say they’re right. And they don’t want to...
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Under a Red Moon
Ronald D. Moore is probably best known for rebooting Battlestar Galactica as a gritty political commentary in the early 2000s. His latest...
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From Outer Space
Think of an alien abduction: humanoid creatures, medical experiments, lost memories brought back by hypnosis. But that narrative was...
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