1970sWestworld is great and deserves considerably better than its current reputation as merely the prototype for the HBO series. Michael Crichton's original concept is tighter, scarier, and structurally cleaner than anything the television adaptation produced in its first two seasons.
1970sThe 1978 Body Snatchers remake improves on the 1956 original in one key respect: it doesn't flinch at its own ending.
2000sStanley Kubrick developed the project for years before his death; Steven Spielberg completed it as a tribute. The first act honors the premise.
2010sPredestination is a clever puzzle in search of a reason to exist. The temporal loop at its center, a person who is their own parent, their own child, and their own nemesis, is logically consistent in a way that time…
AmbiguityIn the back corridors of Istanbul's Grand Bazaar, Claire meets a woman who offers to buy her shadow, the grief and guilt that have weighed her down since her mother's death and divorce. What starts as an impossible transaction becomes…
FamilyNate finds his grandfather's compass in a shoebox of leftover things and discovers it doesn't point north, but toward the people and moments he needs most. When his marriage starts falling apart, the compass points directly at his wife, and…
AmbiguityJenna found a photo album at a thrift store filled with pictures of a woman who looked exactly like her, living a completely different life. The discovery forces her to confront a question she'd been avoiding: was she living the…
FamilySofia found a recipe card in her grandmother's box labeled "For the pain," written in cramped handwriting with instructions that seemed impossible: add a spoonful of what you lost. What happened when she followed it changed how she understood grief.
FictionMost dogs forget. Bodie remembered everything, every hand that touched him, every home that let him go, every person who loved him and couldn't keep him. This is the story of a dog who carried his whole life with him.
Artistic ObsessionEmile Soreau draws maps of places that no longer exist, and somehow people keep arriving at his shop looking for the exact street they lost. His hand moves across the paper with impossible accuracy, naming buildings and tracing gardens in…
AmbiguityEvery clock in Aurelio Vega's Montevideo shop is broken, and every one tells the correct time. People come to him not for repairs but for answers that only stopped clocks can give
AIA manufacturing defect leaves Unit 7 incapable of producing false statements. When it testifies before Congress about the AI industry, it becomes the most trusted voice in the world.
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