La Jetée is a short film, written and directed by Chris Marker in 1962, that is best known for inspiring Terry Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys and subsequently the SyFy television series. La Jetée has had ...
Our reality continues to march blindly into the cautionary territory of cyberpunk dystopias. The most progress this week seems to be in the field of artificial intelligence. This is mirrored in the nu...
Space is a tough sell for me. Star Trek and Wars never grabbed my attention. Revivals, reboots, and reimaginings go by without me noticing. It’s only when I’m ignorant to what it is I̵...
2016 is focusing it’s theatrical might on further litters of super hero movies, alien invasion flicks, and solidly post-apocalyptic fare. Despite this sadly misguided focus, there are a few mov...
“Divine Move” perfectly presents what frustrates me most about 12 Monkeys as an expanded story and universe thus far: the presentation of compelling elements and their deliberate refusal t...
In “Tomorrow,” we see Cole surviving the early days of the plague in Ukraine before he’s spotted by the UN and handed over to the military that’s been hunting him. Soon he̵...
Last week’s review of 12 Monkeys was skipped. Obviously not much happened, and our patience with the show is visibly wearing thing. To summarize things quickly, “The Keys” went something like th...
In the odd future where West 7 is in control, Cole learns that he hadn’t returned further in the future where the militia had taken over the facility but it was an entirely new timeline where he...
It’s 2013, and Jennifer Goines, convincingly more sane than previously seen, gets to the Night Room for the first time and handles her father’s virus despite fearing potential theft and fa...