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Science fiction has long served as a genre to escape to, for decades offering audiences the chance to get lost in imaginary worlds through the pages of novels and comic books. But as filmmaking tools took hold throughout the early 20th century, movies became regular entertainment outlets and vehicles for sci-fi worlds of their own.…

As the (depending on who you ask) great Marshall Mathersonce said, “You only get one shot. Do not miss your chance to blow. This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo!” The man won an Oscarfor that tune, so he must’ve been onto something.

1975 was a pivotal turning point in history — President Gerald Ford announced the end of the Vietnam War, “Chicago” opened on Broadway, “Jaws” made $260 million in the box office, and the following five songs would go on to define pop history.

There’ll be no need to go freaking out at this new product unveiling, because this one is sure to work! We know that the last list we put out had a few bugs in it, but we’ve recently outed those bugs as myths, and moved them over to one of our many myth-busting lists.Today, it’s…

As the industry continued its steady rebound from the video game crash of 1983, 1987 proved there was still plenty of life in arcades. From beat’em ups to shoot’em ups, the arcade scene was as robust as ever in the ’80s. Moving beyond the initial technical limitations of the medium, video games from 1987 were…

Cancellation is supposed to be the end of a television show. The network makes its decision, the sets come down, the actors move on, and viewers are left wondering what might have happened if the series had been given another season.

Many great TV shows have been canceled after only one season, and many terrible ones have suffered a similar fate. That’s no different for TV Westerns, which were so prevalent in the mid-20th century they might as well have been the only thing on TV. Still, no matter how popular the genre was, there were always…

William Shatner got his start as an actor in the early 1950s, but it was his role as Captain James T. Kirk on the classic 1960s series “Star Trek” that turned him into a household name. After playing the character in an additional seven theatrical films, it’s hardly surprising that Kirk continues to define him…

Branded merchandise isn’t exactly a new marketing innovation. Major companies have used this strategy for decades, creating popular products that customers clamored for.

There really hasn’t ever been a bad era for PlayStation, but the PlayStation 3 was a particularly strong console. The PS3 gave us “Uncharted,” “The Last of Us,” and the modern version of the “God of War” series. That’s just the tip of a high-quality iceberg, but even the worst games on PS3 were bad…