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There are nerds, and then there are "Nerdists." A "Nerdist" is, more specifically, an artful nerd. He or she doesn't just consume, he or she creates and innovates.

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By: Chris Hardwick

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Chris Hardwick is an actor, host and comedian who founded Nerdist Industries, a digital media empire that has spawned numerous offshoots, including an improv school and live performance theater in Los Angeles, dozens of pop culture-related podcasts, an entertainment news website, among other entities.

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God dammit, I'd piss on a spark plug if I thought it'd do any good. Let the boy in there major!

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By: Barry Corbin
Characters: General Beringer
From: WarGames

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Barry Corbin as General Beringer said this to skeptical colleagues who were preventing computer hacker Matthew Broderick from trying to shut down an A.I.-enhanced computer system in John Badham's 1983 film WarGames. The system - called "WOPR," short for War Operation Plan Response - was based at a NORAD command center in Washington State and was attempting to start Global Thermonuclear War as part of a computer simulation gone wrong.

Win a free copy of the thriller Altered Minds on DVD

This week, Entertaiment One released the taut psychological thriller Altered Minds, starring Judd Hirsch. Described as a taut psychological thriller from director Michael Z. Wechsler, Altered Minds is distributed by Entertaiment One. To celebrate the release of Altered Minds, Entertaiment One has provided FilmFetish.com with 3 copies of the DVD to giveaway to readers. Wanna ….

Pusher director Nicolas Winding Refn to appear during IFC Center’s “Nordic Noir” thriller screening series

This Friday, IFC Center in New York City will host the screening series “Cold Cases: The Department Q Trilogy and the New Nordic Noir,” a 15-film survey of twenty years of crime films from Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. The series starts this Friday, June 17th and runs through Thursday, June 23rd. Police procedurals, grisly ….

Alien Con to celebrate popular History show Ancient Aliens

This October in Santa Clara, California, fans of History’s Ancient Aliens will have the chance to attend Alien Con, the very first convention devoted to fans of the show, along with sci-fi buffs and pop culture enthusiasts. Cosmic-Con, the event division of Famous Monsters of Filmland Magazine, and History are teaming up to celebrate all ….

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I mean you're workin' on some crazy stuff in these buildings. Stuff that would freak me out if I actually understood it. I'm going to tell you about one that's been on my mind - Simulation Theory. The basic idea as I understand it is that we all could be living in a massive simulation, run by a far smarter civilization, like a giant computer game, and we don't even know it.

What if this, all of this, IS a simulation.

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By: Matt Damon

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Matt Damon says during a commencement speech he gave a MIT.

Drafthouse Films & Alamo Drafthouse celebrate Indiana Jones’ 35th Anniversary with the greatest fan film ever made

This weekend marks 35 years since the debut of iconic adventure-hungry archaeologist Dr. Henry Walton “Indiana” Jones Jr. in Stephen Spielberg’s cult classic adventure Raiders of the Lost Ark. Drafthouse Films is celebrating with countrywide screenings of their upcoming documentary release Raiders: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made. The film is currently ….

Midnight Release Party planned to celebrate Harry Potter and the Cursed Child release

July 31st marks the official script book release of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – Parts I & II, the theatrical eighth installment of JK Rowling’s best-selling Harry Potter series premiering as a play on London’s West End stage. To celebrate the countdown to the latest chapter of the Harry Potter saga, Books-A-Million is ….