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The Future of Funny Has Already Happened BY MARC SAVLOV Welcome to Spaced, the cult British comedy with Star Wars in its eyes

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Wonder Stories Screens

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The Hard Question BY MARY JO PEHL Why don't zombies just eat one another?

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Sci-Fi Week

Paramount Theatre Summer Classics

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TV Eye

BY BELINDA ACOSTA

The geeks shall inherit the earth? They'll certainly rule San Diego this weekend.

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Robot Chicken: Star Wars This spoof is sure to keep that inner problem child happy

THIS WEEK IN SCREENS

The Future of Funny Has Already Happened
BY MARC SAVLOV
Welcome to Spaced, the cult British comedy with Star Wars in its eyes

• How the Force Was With Them
  BY KIMBERLEY JONES
  Spaced's Top 5 Star Wars Moments

 Things That Came: It Might Be Science, But It Sure Ain't Fiction
BY MARC SAVLOV
'Videodrome' and 'They Live,' then and now

The Hard Question
BY MARY JO PEHL
Why don't zombies just eat one another?

Sci-Fi Week
Paramount Theatre Summer Classics

TV Eye
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
The geeks shall inherit the earth? They'll certainly rule San Diego this weekend.

DVD Watch

Robot Chicken: Star Wars
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
This spoof is sure to keep that inner problem child happy

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Playing the Field November 20, 2009 The lowdown on the season's new games Console Wars: The Saga Continues November 20, 2009 BY JAMES RENOVITCH Sizing up the video-game platforms Goodbye to All That November 20, 2009 BY KIMBERLEY JONES Revisiting Kyle Henry's University Inc. and a film community's cri de coeur Community Building November 13, 2009 BY MARC SAVLOV Ed Radtke's Speed of Life opens the 2009 Austin Asian American Film Festival

The Mighty Finn November 13, 2009 BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN AFS Essential Cinema presents the Chilly Humorist of Finland: Aki Kaurismäki Sorting the Family's Dirty Laundry November 6, 2009 BY ANNE S. LEWIS AFS Documentary Tour revisits Alan Berliner's 1991 film Intimate Stranger Bucking Categorization November 6, 2009 BY MARC SAVLOV Character actor Sam Rockwell slips into a new guise in the goofy comedy Gentlemen Broncos Lady Diane November 6, 2009 BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN Diane Keaton takes her life to the stage

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