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This week in Cult Scifi, I'm bringing you a few shorts, including some from the lovely Imagine Science Film Festival. Plus a translated trailer of Dod Sno (Dead Snow) so we'll finally figure out what's going on with the crazy Nazi undead. More »
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Mathematics becomes more than the stuff of SAT nightmares in Fermat's Room, a tense thriller screened last night at the Imagine Science Film Festival in New York City. When four skilled mathematicians solve a puzzle and are invited to a secluded conference, they're promised the world's greatest enigma. Instead, they find themselves in a slowly shrinking space, with less than an hour to figure out how they're connected and who wants them dead — or the giant hydraulic presses will finish the job. Only by correctly solving the mathematical mind-twisters delivered via PDA can they buy a little time. More »
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If you're in New York, then I know what you're going to be doing for the next nine days. The Imagine Science Film Festival kicks off today and runs until the 25th. The highlight is probably Sleep Dealer, the movie about people south of the border doing all our shit work via telepresence. But there's also A Biometric Tale, a retelling of Little Red Riding Hood in a world where biometrics are ubiquitous; The Wormhole, about a boy who tries to find a wormhole so he can travel back in time and save his family; and California King, about a mattress salesman who uses Newtonian physics to pick up girls. Admit it: You've just forgotten whatever it was you had planned this weekend. [Gothamist] More »
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