Recent content by Josh Dial

After seeing basically every new release last year, and upon reflecting further on my review, I've dropped my score down to 2/10.

This was a really good movie. It's an A24 action drama by Alex Garland about war journalism. Right there is all you need to know to decide if you should go see this. Everything was great. The leads are all fantastic. Jesse Plemons shows up and ratchets tension up to eleven. The directing...

I was at the preview show!

Total agreement. Heroes arrived at a problematic time in television. Not because TV was so bad: but because it was so good. When Heroes premiered in September 2006, LOST's third season was about to debut (after a jaw dropping cliffhanger and an agonizing summer break), and Battlestar Galatica...

Frankly, I don't think any of those episodes would have been better season finales. But I agree with you that the network meddling did the show a disservice. Still, Learning Curve is the season finale, whether we like it or not. Perhaps it's a season finale* with an asterisk. Since Discovery's...

For what it's worth, I just now (like seconds ago) checked my PVR and I'm showing season 5 episode 1 ("Red Directive") airing tomorrow (April 4, 2024) from 7:00 pm to 8:15 pm, and then season 5 episode 2 ("Under the Twin Moons") from 8:15 pm to 9:30 pm. That's Shaw digital cable in Calgary...

Human Target? That was a spy show but more action-y than cerebral. Killer soundtrack by Bear McCreary. I was sad when the show got cancelled after two seasons.

One jumping to my brain with a mundane name is "Traveler" staring Aaron Stanford, but it didn't really have an international setting. Any other basic info you can think of? Male star? Young? Old?

I liked it a lot!

I thought the superposition cabin was actually pretty clever.

Based on the information we have thus far, I would suggest the title refers to a group of "things" (persons, stars) that, when observed from a particular point of view, has a certain form/shape/expression. The keys being observation and points of view. But I would be more inclined to let the...

I forgot to note the potential continuity error I mentioned above. Here it is in a spoiler:

The core concepts have nothing to do with either general or special relativity. This is one of the shows where people "think they get it" but, in fact, do not.

I think if Reitman had directed this it could have been better. It's hard to explain, but you could see the studio's hand in the edit. The technical aspects of the editing were solid. There was no sloppy ADR (when this happens I blame the editor and director), and only one continuity error...

I saw this last night. It was...not great. There are far too many characters, and the movie seemed hellbent on giving them each one single moment in the spotlight (except, strangely, Carrie Coon, who is one of the best actors out there). The poster is cluttered and so is the plot. There are so...