Category: Lists
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The Best of Futurama: Why We Keep Coming Back to the World of Tomorrow
by William Moon It can be easy to forget since we still don’t have any firm release date, but Hulu has revived Futurama from its cryonic stasis once again. The first half of the series’ 20-episode order is slated to drop sometime this summer, and after an initial delay, all of the show’s original regular…
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Watch That Man: The 100 Greatest David Bowie Songs, Part Two
Numbers 100-51 are in part one here. And we press on. 50. “TVC 15” (1976, Station to Station) One of Bowie’s most willfully bizarre tracks, “TVC 15” begins with a boogie-woogie piano intro, which is joined by a golden oldies-style vocal line from Bowie. While the vocals are buried in a surprisingly busy mix, the…
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Watch That Man: The 100 Greatest David Bowie Songs, Part One
by William Moon We lost David Bowie over seven years ago now, which feels impossible until you remember how little meaning time has had in the intervening years (too busy flexing and wanking, I suppose). The recent appearance of his Queen duet “Under Pressure” in the award-nominated film Aftersun sent me into a Bowie place,…
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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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♪ 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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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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