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...sampling a tune composed by a Finnish chiptune musician in one of his songs. That same year, a rapper named Megaran released a Mega Man-themed album that landed him a deal with video-game publisher Capcom. But so far, that's pretty much it. Chiptune music's lo-fi, bleepy asthetic works well with songs by Kanye West and MGMT, but not so much with songs by someone like Miles Davis. (See TIME's list of the 100 all-time greatest albums...
...prove there was something for moviegoers of both sexes this weekend - provided they love sci-fi - The Time Traveler's Wife lured nearly $20 million worth of ticket buyers to take third place. Shot nearly two years ago and financed by the now-defunct New Line Cinema, this moony love story connected with female audiences in an unusually crowded marketplace for femme films. Four of the top 10 films were romances, as couples could also choose the love-of-food bio-pic Julie & Julia, in fourth place; Katherine Heigl's The Ugly Truth, in eighth; and the she-loves...
...success of District 9 spoke to the abiding power of sci-fi. The movie, which posits the imprisoning of space creatures in a Joburg detention camp, and the plight of their human warden who gets infected and forges a bond with the aliens to save his own life, is the sixth s-f action adventure to win a weekend in the 2009 summer season that began in early May with X-Men Origins: Wolverine. But it's the first one not sponsored by Hollywood - Jackson raised the money, Sony bought the rights - and the first South African film that American...
...TIME's Top 10 '50s Sci-Fi Movies...
...score that tries to cue all the emotions in viewers, as if they're incapable of locating their own feelings. But the movie also has an aching solidity that allows you to surrender to its cuddly-creepy feelings without hating yourself in the morning. (See the best 1950s sci-fi movies...