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The Expanse Season 4 Review: Here Comes the Juice

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The cult-hit space opera heads to Amazon for a bigger budget, wider scope, and renewed sense of purpose.

Posted on December 4, 2019December 4, 2019 TV

“Ex Machina”, “Annihilation”, and the Beautiful Apocalypse

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Alex Garland’s contemplative sci-fi stories imagine a world where destruction and liberation go hand in hand.

Posted on November 27, 2019November 27, 2019 Features

Watchmen Episode 5 Recap: “Little Fear of Lightning”

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Watchmen explores the cyclical nature of trauma in an episode that serves as a haunting showcase for Tim Blake Nelson.

Posted on November 17, 2019November 17, 2019 TV

The Mandalorian Recap: Star Wars Goes West With “Chapter One”

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Disney+’s live-action Star Wars series shakes off its fan-film cobwebs and shows glimmers of space Western intrigue.

Posted on November 12, 2019November 12, 2019 TV

Watchmen Recap: “If You Don’t Like My Story, Write Your Own”

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Legacy and memory rise to the forefront of an intriguing Watchmen concerned even more directly with the shadows of the past.

Posted on November 10, 2019November 10, 2019 TV

Watchmen Recap: “She Was Killed By Space Junk”

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An old character from the comics arrives reinvented, as we see the other half of the story thus […]

Posted on November 3, 2019November 3, 2019 TV

See Review: Avert Your Eyes From Apple TV+’s Latest

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If you can’t use your eyes to see, you might as well roll them at Apple TV+’s hokey dystopian drama.

Posted on November 3, 2019November 3, 2019 TV

For All Mankind Review: One Giant Leap Into An Alt-Space Race

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Ronald D. Moore’s alt-history space race series proves to be one of Apple TV+’s most alluring offerings.

Posted on October 30, 2019October 29, 2019 TV

Love and Robots: “The Terminator” is Cameron’s Most Romantic Movie

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On the thirty-fifth anniversary of the film’s release, we look back at James Cameron’s most melancholy blockbuster.

Posted on October 26, 2019October 24, 2019 ColumnsFeaturesMovies

Paradise Hills Review: Harajuku Gossip Girls

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Emma Roberts fights the patriarchy in this trippy feminist fairy tale.

Posted on October 24, 2019October 24, 2019 Movies

Fantastic Fest: Christopher Winterbauer on Youth, Grief, and “Wyrm”

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Wyrm writer/director Christopher Winterbauer sits down at Fantastic Fest to talk about the analog appeal of ’80s kitsch and adapting shorts to features.

Posted on October 11, 2019October 11, 2019 Fantastic Fest 2019FestivalsInterviewsMore of a Comment ReallyPodcasts

Gemini Man Review: Not Even Three Will Smiths Could Have Saved It

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Ang Lee’s ambitious young-vs-old futuristic thriller is a misfire of cranked-up frame rates and muddled plotting.

Posted on October 9, 2019October 9, 2019 Movies

“Dreamcatcher” Is the Ideal Stephen King Movie, Ass Aliens and All

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For better or for worse, Lawrence Kasdan’s adaptation of Dreamcatcher captures the strange, ambitious essence of a Stephen King novel.

Posted on September 23, 2019September 23, 2019 Filmmaker of the MonthMovies

Box Office Report: Gird Your Monocles, “Downton Abbey” Tops the Box Office

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Waistcoats and pageantry rule the day at the box office, while Brad Pitt’s cerebral sci-fi drama Ad Astra puts on a respectable showing.

Posted on September 23, 2019September 22, 2019 Box Office ReportColumnsMovies

Ad Astra Review: Is There Life Out There?

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Brad Pitt seeks the divine amongst the stars in James Gray’s flawed but mesmerizing space epic.

Posted on September 20, 2019September 22, 2019 Movies

Gender Treachery, or Where Are All the Trans People in “The Handmaid’s Tale”?

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Hulu’s patriarchal sci-fi dystopia can’t quite bring itself to explore what happens outside the cis experience.

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Posted on September 5, 2019September 4, 2019 FeaturesTV

Don’t Let Go Review: Relive “Frequency” in This Derivative Thriller

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Jacob Estes’ time-travel caper feels like an uncredited remake, which makes its flaws stand out even more starkly. […]

Posted on August 27, 2019August 27, 2019 Movies

Hall of Faces: Who’s the Greatest Character on “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine”?

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Twenty years after the show’s finale, we sit down to determine which of Deep Space Nine’s deep bench of great characters earns our favor.

Posted on August 26, 2019August 26, 2019 Hall of FacesPodcastsTV

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