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Past society events

This is a list of past events held or celebrated by our society between 2011/12/29 and 2012/03/06.

Picocon

Picocon is a tiny (hence the name) convention organised by Imperial College's own Science Fiction society. There'll be all manner of events through out the day, most notably readings/talks given by the Guests of Honour. This year's crop of famous authors are Adrian Czajkowski, Justina Robson and Tricia Sullivan.

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Stardate: 20120218.1000
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Stardate: 20120218.1800
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Everyone
Up

It's Valentine's Day, so we're going to make you feel all gooey inside (not like that) by showing you Up, the 2009 Pixar film about an old man who tethers his house to thousands of balloons and goes on a fantastical journey to South America, with an unlikely travelling companion.

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Stardate: 20120214.1900
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Stardate: 20120214.2300
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Surrogates

Set in a world in which people love their lives through remote controlled 'surrogates', Surrogates stars Bruce Willis as an FBI agent who has to go in to the real world to investigate an impossible murder.

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Stardate: 20120207.1900
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Stardate: 20120207.2300
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Ponyo

To quote Wikipedia, "Ponyo" is:"(Gake no Ue no Ponyo, literally "Ponyo on the Cliff"), is a 2008 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli.

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Stardate: 20120131.1900
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Stardate: 20120131.2300
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Everyone
Zardoz

Sean Connery runs around in an orange nappy shooting people.

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Stardate: 20120124.1900
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Stardate: 20120124.2300
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Source Code

Jake Gyllenhaal plays a guy who does some stuff in this film from the guy that directed Moon (who is also David Bowie's son).

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Stardate: 20120117.1900
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Stardate: 20120117.2300
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Thor

Our first film of the new term will be Thor, the superhero movie directed by celebrated Shakespearian thesp Kenneth Branagh. As far as I'm aware, this is his first comic-book adaptation. Anyway, Thor (played by him off Home and Away) is the disgraced heir to the fantastic realm of Asgard, who gets exiled to Earth and has to stop the evil Frost Giants taking over the universe. Just like Hamlet.

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When:

Stardate: 20120110.1900
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Stardate: 20120110.2300
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Members Only