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You Need to See This Year’s Most Awesome Meteor Shower

If you’ve ever wanted to wish on a shooting star, your chance is coming up. The Perseids, one of the year’s most spectacular meteor showers, will reach its peak late on the night of August 12 and into the early morning hours of August 13. From the right vantage point, you might be able to see a meteor flash across the sky about once every minute.

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Sci-fi movies tend to either age very well or very, very poorly. While many older sci-fi stories still have a certain charm, their visions of the future feel much less advanced, perceptive, and realistic than they did upon release. There’s nothing wrong with them, but time can make one’s ideas, no matter how detailed or logical, look antiquated.

But some ideas don’t age as poorly as they should. On the contrary, some sci-fi movies only seem more possible now than when they were created. That’s certainly the case for writer-director Neill Blomkamp’s 2013 sci-fi epic, Elysium. The film, which received mixed reviews upon release, takes place in a future where both humanity and the Earth itself have been torn apart by greed, indifference, and cruelty.

Ten years after its release, Elysium hasn’t outgrown its narrative and stylistic flaws. However, its vision of a world where the wealthiest among us have literally cut themselves off from the rest of humanity feels far more timely than it did even just in 2013. It may not be the subtlest blockbuster ever, but some ideas can stand to be communicated with a heavier hand.

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💥 ‘TMNT’ Is the Latest in a Radical Animation Renaissance

Wednesday, August 2, 2023

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