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Now Streaming: In the Shadow of the Moon (2019)

Josh Zyber — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 16:00:50 +0000

For a remake of the acclaimed documentary about NASA’s Apollo space program, Netflix’s In the Shadow of the Moon misses the mark pretty badly. For a TV movie thriller about a time-traveling serial killer… well, it’s pretty middling at that as well. The truly strange thing about recycling this particular title is that the phrase...

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Fantastic Fest Journal: The Wave

Deirdre Crimmins — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 17:00:02 +0000

The Wave highlights the realities of both stranger-danger and drug use, but what you really should be wary of is insurance companies. Justin Long stars as Frank. Frank has an annoying wife (Sarah Minnich) and is barely keeping his head above water financially, but that’s all going to change after making his big presentation to...

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Now Streaming: Undone

Josh Zyber — Wed, 18 Sep 2019 16:00:21 +0000

Star Rosa Salazar is so good in Amazon’s new animated, existential sci-fi mystery series Undone that I almost want to check out that Alita: Battle Angel movie she was in after all… Almost. Let’s not go crazy here. Undone is animated in rotoscope style, wherein live actors are filmed and then stylized animation is drawn...

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Legion Series Finale Recap: “I Think We Saved the World”

Josh Zyber — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 12:00:45 +0000

FX’s Legion wrapped up its third and final season this week, and series creator Noah Hawley was allowed to end the story on his own terms. As you’d expect, it gets pretty weird. I’ll do my best to make some sense of it. Aside from a check-in at the season premiere, I haven’t attempted to...

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Legion 3.01 Recap: “All Past Is Future”

Josh Zyber — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 12:00:46 +0000

After its deeply confusing and, let’s be honest, frequently incoherent second season, FX’s bizarre superhero drama Legion saw its viewers throw their hands in the air and its ratings nosedive. However, the show still has a small cult audience, and the network was generous enough to grant it a third season to finish the story...

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‘Frequency’ Pilot Recap: “You Believe in That Twilight Zone Stuff?”

Josh Zyber — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 19:00:12 +0000

Time travel seems to be a major theme this fall TV season. In addition to NBC’s ‘Timeless‘ and returning shows ‘The Flash’ and ‘Legends of Tomorrow’, the CW network felt that now would be a good time to dust off the old Dennis Quaid movie ‘Frequency’ and adapt it to series form. This was an...

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‘Timeless’ Pilot Recap: “Make Your Own Future”

Josh Zyber — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 13:00:41 +0000

From the incessant ads for it, NBC’s new time travel adventure ‘Timeless’ looked like it would be either one of the most promising new TV series of the fall or one of the cheesiest. Do these two things have to be mutually exclusive? The show has some notable talent behind-the-scenes, including creators Eric Kripke (‘Supernatural’)...

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‘The Flash’ 2.17 Recap: “This Will All Make Sense Eventually”

Josh Zyber — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 19:00:46 +0000

As a rule, episodes of ‘The Flash’ that dabble with time travel are almost always absurdly convoluted, contradictory and painfully illogical. This week’s attempt, amazingly, almost makes sense… until it doesn’t at all. Still believing that his friend Jay Garrick is the villain Zoom – and without ever considering the possibility that Zoom could be...

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‘Legends of Tomorrow’ Pilot Recap: “Time Travel… Cool”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 26 Jan 2016 14:00:30 +0000

Based on the first episode, ‘Legends of Tomorrow’, the new spinoff from ‘Arrow’ and ‘The Flash’, is DC Comics’ most ambitious television undertaking to date. It’s also undoubtedly going to be the most difficult sell. Unlike ‘The Flash’ (and to a lesser extent ‘Arrow’), ‘Legends of Tomorrow’ isn’t fronted by an individual recognizable superhero whose...

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Weekend Roundtable: The Time Traveling Movie Fan

Josh Zyber — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 19:00:39 +0000

Let’s say you had a time machine. You could use it to go back and prevent world wars or save the mother of the future leader of the human resistance from a cyborg assassin. Sure sure sure, that’s all well and good. Or, as a movie buff, you could attend the opening weekend premieres of...

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‘Terminator: Genisys’ Review: Guess What, He’s Back

Philip Brown — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 19:00:21 +0000

‘Terminator: Genisys’ is technically the fifth film in the 30-year-old franchise, but as James Cameron or anyone who was actually involved in the project will tell you, it’s really the third official movie in the series. You see, the first two ‘Terminator’ flicks remain rowdy action/sci-fi classics, while the subsequent two haven’t been mentioned since...

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‘Hot Tub Time Machine 2’ Review: Bad, But Funny

Philip Brown — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 14:00:24 +0000

The biggest joke in ‘Hot Tub Time Machine’ was the fact that the movie even existed at all. It was beyond idiotic and that was the charm. ‘Hot Tub Time Machine 2’ doubles down on this dumbness, and at times can be tough to watch. And yet, it has laughs. The original was a guilty...

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