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Review: Call Me By Your Name

Call Me By Your Name is a beautiful romantic-coming-of-age drama directed by Luca Guadagnino. Based on the novel of the same name by Andre Aciman, the movie chronicles the romantic relationship between Elio, a 17-year old living in Italy, and his father’s American assistant, Oliver. What starts as friendship ends up being a relationship that

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Review: Clockwork Boys (Clocktaur War Book 1)

Convicted criminal Slate knows she’s not the first choice to lead an expedition into enemy territory. Heck, she’s not even the second. No one else has managed to find any useful information on the rampaging Clockwork Boys though, so she and a smart-aleck assassin, a failed paladin, and a misogynistic scholar have been press-ganged into

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Review – Battle of the Sexes

By guest columnist narrator26 Two of my favourite actors face off in this inexplicable true story about the levels of sexism that breathed all too easily through tennis in the 1970s. Considering our current celebrity climate, there’s probably never going to be better timing for this film’s release than now.

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Star Trek “Captain’s Holiday” Craft Beer Released

Here at Binary System, we like Star Trek. And we also like beer. So we got a kick out of this: Shmaltz Brewing Company is releasing a Star Trek “Captain’s Holiday” craft beer, coming soon to a bar near you. A holiday on Risa, in a bottle. (Hopefully with fewer Ferengi.) Keep reading for the

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Binary System Podcast – the Angels of Night Vale fan art

No podcast this week; the new Night Vale episode doesn’t drop until tomorrow, and it’ll be a few days before we catch up on all our TV shows and OH MY GOD HAVE YOU WATCHED SEASON TWO OF STRANGER THINGS YET? Ahem. To fill the time until then, have some of our favorite Welcome To

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Review – Transformers Lost Light #11

At long last, this issue we get the answer to the question that’s bugged me for months: how the hell did Getaway convince Blaster and Perceptor to turn into filthy mutineers? I can buy it from some obscure, background-filler, appeared-47-issues-ago-so-I’ve-forgotten-their-name-SORRY, but Perceptor? Blaster?? And the reason is both slightly unsatisfying and completely believable. And I

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Lost In Sci-Fi: Episode 58: Cryogenics

You can listen to this episode on our Lost In Sci-Fi channel at Anchor.fm! This week Leland and Elizabeth dive into the world of cryogenics. They know very little about it, but with confidence they make you believe they do: where it’s been used well in books, TV, and movies, and where it didn’t work

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Review: Troll Bridge

“I’m a troll,” he said. Then he paused, and added, more or less as an afterthought, “Fol rol de ol rol.” Thanksgiving is over, so it’s officially time to start shopping for Christmas presents! (Unless you’re one of those highly organized people who got their Christmas shopping done before October, in which case I DON’T

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