Mês: agosto 2025

Fright Night Predicted the Two Sides of Nerd Culture 40 Years Ago

Nerds ruled the 1980s, or so it seemed. Not only did geeks get their own franchise with Revenge of the Nerds, but they also were mainstays in movies such as The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, and also films not starring Anthony Michael Hall. So it’s no surprise that the 1985 vampire film Fright Night would […]

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Alien: Androids and AI Are Now the Center of the Franchise

This article contains very mild spoilers for the first episode of Alien: Earth. There originally were never going to be any robots in the world or mythology of Alien. As brilliant as Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett’s initial idea was about a crew encountering an alien organism that nestles itself inside a human host—or “impregnates […]

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Hunt for Gollum Movie Poised to Ask ‘What Does Frodo Do When He’s Happy?’

“I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.” When most people refer to that line, spoken by Elijah Wood as Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, they quote it to set up Ian McKellen as Gandalf the Grey’s thoughtful, resonate […]

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