Category: Film
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The Only Good Jedi Is a Dead Jedi – A Modest Proposal for the Future of Star Wars
by William Moon The Jedi have to go. Both for real-world reasons (their mystique is long gone, mired in a morass of vaguely defined mythology) and for in-universe ones (one of them inevitably turns evil and starts blowing up planets). I’m not advocating for a Sith takeover either. They only seem to exist in the…
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The Bats**t Chronicles #2: Dune
by William Moon As promised, The Bats**t Chronicles returns with a sophomore outing covering Dune. (See the entry on Genesis’ The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway here.) And where to start with Dune exactly? Well, first off, this won’t focus on any one particular version of Dune and instead will look at the novel and…
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Whatever Will Happen with the Man of Tomorrow?
As Superman: Legacy flies into pre-production, let’s examine what audiences may be looking for from the Man of Steel on the big screen by William Moon Yesterday was the 85th anniversary of Superman’s first appearance in Action Comics #1. (The cover date is June 1938, but it went on sale on April 18th of that…
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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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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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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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