AN ARTIST WITH THE THOMPSON

If we can’t write diversity into sci-fi, then what’s the point? You don’t create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones.

Jane Espenson (from interview with Advocate.com)\

I dunno how many which ways this needs to be said

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Blu-ray Of The Week: Lifeforce

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A movie at once of its time and recklessly out of it, the 1985 sci-fi horror film Lifeforce cost nearly $25 million to make, back when that was real money, and represented one of the major attempts by Menahem and Yoram Globus’ Cannon Group to make a transition from disreputable indie to blockbuster player. On paper, Lifeforce looked sure-fire: It’s an Alien-esque mainstream genre picture co-written by actual Alien scribe Dan O’Bannon, and directed by Tobe Hooper, who’d just helmed the Steven Spielberg-produced smash Poltergeist. But only in 1985 could this collection of people (which included composer Henry Mancini) and this level of production value (with 70mm cinematography by Return Of The Jedi lenser Alan Hume and special effects by Star Wars/Battlestar Galactica/Star Trek: The Motion Picture effects man John Dykstra) have co-existed.

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zeekubeast:

If you could make your own house motto and sigil, what would they be?

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i think we can all relate to the motto of house bradley-west

I have been waiting for this gif set forever. 

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Things I Think are Neat: consider the bank.

gyzym:

You know, a few months ago this dude friend of mine showed up to hang out with me all dejected. Over a couple of drinks he explained his long face — earlier that night, he’d been walking down the street behind this really cute girl, and when she looked back at him over her shoulder,…