Category: Archive
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A Dream Given Form – 25 Episodes That Show Why ’90s Throwback Babylon 5 Is Worth Your Time
NOTE: This article originally ran on scifigangstas.com in June 2022 by William Moon We’re not quite to its 30-year anniversary (the pilot TV movie Babylon 5: The Gathering first aired on February 22, 1993), but having recently completed a rewatch of the entire series (which was also a first watch for my wife), I think…
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1982: Movie Sci-Fi’s Best Year?
Multiple Classics of the Genre Look at 40 by William Moon NOTE: This article originally ran on scifigangstas.com in June 2022 June 1982 was a fat month for movie releases. In an era now where studios fight over release date real estate much like jackasses fight over smart TVs on Black Friday, the logjam of…
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♪ Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-Ranking-All-the-Movies-Featuring-Batman!
by William Moon NOTE: This article originally ran on scifigangstas.com in April 2022 Well, here we are again. The Batman, an extremely long but apparently well-reviewed new take on the Caped Crusader from director Matt Reeves and star Robert Pattinson, is set to hit theaters this Friday. With yet another riff on the World’s Greatest…
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The 100 Greatest Science Fiction Movies, Part Two
by William Moon NOTE: This article originally ran on scifigangstas.com in July 2021 OK, we’re back. Here’s part one, in case you missed it. Now, on with the list. 50. 12 Monkeys (1995, dir: Terry Gilliam) I mentioned in the intro that La Jetée was ruled out because it’s not feature length, but that you…
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The 100 Greatest Science Fiction Movies, Part One
by William Moon NOTE: This article originally ran on scifigangstas.com in July 2021 Well, why not? I should note that this list is just my opinion, and the larger Sci-Fi Gangstas team reserves the right to their own views on the subject (possibly we may hear those views at some point in the future). With…
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Keep Circulating the Tapes: The Evolution of Mystery Science Theater 3000 Continues
by William Moon NOTE: This article originally ran on scifigangstas.com in April 2021. There’s been a flurry of articles discussing Mystery Science Theater 3000 lately. Like this one…or this one. (Both of those are definitely worth reading.) Maybe I don’t have a tremendous amount to add here. MST3K is an institution, something that began airing…
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Picking at the Scab: Let’s (sigh) Talk About What Went Wrong with Game of Thrones
by William Moon NOTE: This article originally ran on scifigangstas.com in April 2021 This coming Saturday (April 17th), we’ll have somehow reached the ten-year anniversary of the premiere of Game of Thrones‘ pilot episode, “Winter Is Coming”. A friend of mine found out via an ad from HBO pushing people to dive back into the…
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Twilight of the SnyderVerse: Where Does DC Go from Here (and Where Could It Have Been)
by William Moon NOTE: This article originally ran on scifigangstas.com in March 2021 Well, it’s come and gone. The once-mythic Snyder Cut has been released. At least some of us were caffeinated enough to slam through all four hours of it. (No judgment if you weren’t.) The film may or may not have been a…
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After All That, the Snyder Cut Is Mostly Just Sort of…There…
by William Moon NOTE: This article originally ran on scifigangstas.com in March 2021 Right off the bat, let’s start with the admission that I’ll watch just about any DC movie (except maybe Green Lantern…or Catwoman…or Suicide Squad again – DC has made some very bad movies, but still I soldier on). I’ve always been cool…
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The Post-Script to a Classic – Three Episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation at Its Peak
by William Moon NOTE: This article originally ran on scifigangstas.com in September 2017 For this 30th anniversary of Star Trek: The Next Generation, a series that’s as important to the development of science fiction on television and in popular culture as its famed predecessor, let’s take a look at the show’s most famous episode(s), the two-part season-spanning…
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Don’t Feed the Plants: The Genius of ‘Little Shop of Horrors’, the King of the Nerd Musicals
by William Moon NOTE: This article originally ran on scifigangstas.com in August 2017 Well, certainly the talk of this week has been about the…♪ to-tal-e-clipse-of-the-Sun. So that naturally got me thinking about one of my all-time favorite movies, Little Shop of Horrors. This isn’t a round number anniversary for the film or anything, nor is there any type…
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The Journey vs. The Destination: The Silver Age of ‘Game of Thrones’
by William Moon NOTE: This article first ran on scifigangstas.com in August 2017. Spoilers for several seasons of Game of Thrones are present in this article, up to and including the sixth episode of season seven, “Beyond the Wall”. No show spills as much blood as Game of Thrones, and no show causes as much digital ink…
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I Can Live with It…Ranking the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Episodes…Part V
by William Moon NOTE: This article originally ran on atlantaclassiccomics.com in the summer of 2016 So now it’s all down to this…We’ve tromped through 138 episodes of this series in the previous four installments (links below), and now we’re staring down the disruptor barrel at the top 35 entries in the show’s catalogue. It’s been…
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I Can Live with It…Ranking the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Episodes…Part IV
by William Moon NOTE: This article originally ran on atlantaclassiccomics.com in the summer of 2016 Welcome back, everyone. This is gonna be the best Part IV since Rocky IV. We’ve traipsed through 103 of the show’s 173 episodes, so that means we have…hmmm…carry the one…um…70 episodes left…that’s right…70. So, hows about we press on? Once again,…
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I Can Live with It…Ranking the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Episodes…Part III
by William Moon NOTE: This article originally ran on atlantaclassiccomics.com in the summer of 2016 The endurance test continues. Hopefully, you’ve enjoyed reading the first two parts of this five-part series. I imagine if you haven’t, you probably won’t be reading this. We’re continuing to rank the episodes of the underrated 90’s sci-fi series Star Trek:…
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I Can Live with It…Ranking the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Episodes…Part II
by William Moon NOTE: This article originally ran on atlantaclassiccomics.com in the summer of 2016 …And we’re back. I hope you enjoyed Part I, because Part II’s gonna be more of the same, just extra awesome. The episodes get better and better, and I don’t know about of some of our international customers/readers, but we…
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I Can Live with It…Ranking the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Episodes, Part I
by William Moon NOTE: This article originally ran on atlantaclassiccomics.com in the summer of 2016 Hello all, I’m the new guy here at Atlanta Classic Comics. I like lists. This is a list. All right, now that that’s settled, let’s get started. In my opinion, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is the overall strongest Trek series, and I don’t…
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