Blade Runner (Movie)
Gen Z Stars React to Classic Sci-Fi Movies of the ’80s
If you were a moviegoer in the 1980s, you were constantly presented with imaginative questions that seemed cosmic and existential. Would humanity someday settle its differences here on earth and learn to travel the stars as a unified species? Or were we destined for a dystopian future with little more to look at than smoggy […]
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How Five Sci-Fi Movies From 1982 Shaped Our Present
“Blade Runner,” “E.T.,” “Tron,” “The Wrath of Khan” and “The Thing” all arrived that one season 40 years ago to become indelible and influential. To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. At the end of Christian Nyby’s 1951 sci-fi chiller “The Thing from Another […]
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Joe Turkel, the Spectral Bartender in ‘The Shining,’ Dies at 94
Joe Turkel, a gaunt-faced yeoman character actor who appeared in scores of movies but is best known for two of his final performances — as Lloyd the bartender in “The Shining” and Dr. Eldon Tyrell in “Blade Runner” — died on June 27 in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 94. His son Craig Turkel said […]
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