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Sorry! Here’s the Museum of Science Fiction survey link!

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Fill out survey – have a voice in the Museum of Science Fiction’s preview

And check out this article at Wired.

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Lenny Henry Gives Advice To BAME (Black, Asian, And Minority Ethnic) Filmmakers (Video)

Brilliant talk on need for people of color not just in front of the cameras but behind them…as well as POCs in decision-making and greenlighting positions. Note, also, advice to POC film makers about how to represent.

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Akame ga Kill! The Best Anime of Summer 2014

Great review! Thanks, Nerdophiles!

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Akame ga Kill!

Cast: Sora Amamiya, Soma Saito, and Yukari Tamura
Director: Tomoki Kobayashi
Episode Numbers: 24
Genres: Drama, Action, Anime
Based On: Akame ga Kill! manga by Takahiro

Rating: ★★★★☆
Review Spoilers:  Low
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To be frank, most modern anime disappoints me to a certain degree. In the popular shōnen genre, characters have become incredibly one dimensional, plots recycled to the point of staleness, and I feel like I’m being forced to be sympathetic to the characters as opposed to actually caring about them. 

“Akame ga Kill!” has blown me away though. Casually deciding to try out the series, I was told that it was addicting and one of the better animes of Summer 2o14 and I’m going to have to agree with that. “Akame ga Kill!” tells the story of Tatsumi, a young teenage who goes to the Imperial Capital with the hopes of working for the…

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Are There Star Wars and Avengers Characters We Don’t Know About Yet?

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Also, news/trailers for Sleepy Hollow, Gotham, The Leftovers, Supernatural, The Vampire Diaries, and more.

James Earl Jones Reads Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” and Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”

James Earl Jones reads “The Raven”

Watch “Song of Myself” readings at Open Culture

Request: “No, Hollywood. Ignore ‘Lucy’. Please.

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Read C. Rhodes’s plea.

First Official Trailer for “See No Evil 2”


Starring Lee Majdoub, Glenn Jacobs, Danielle Harris, Katharine Isabelle, and Kaj-Erik Eriksen.

“The Leftovers,” Episode 5: What the hell??

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