Netflix’s DARK, the time-travel saga, gets confusing for primarily three reasons – the flow of events, the individual’s paths through time, and the character’s family tree. In this article, let’s focus on just the key people and how they are related; let’s understand the child-parent relationship. Once this happens, you are 1/3rd your way to … Read more
A Day (or Ha-roo) is a 2017 Korean thriller directed by Cho Sun-ho that features time-looping. The film is centred on a doctor who is trapped in a time loop trying to save his daughter’s life. As the loops progress, he begins to understand the complexity and reason behind them and how it connects to … Read more
Time Trap is a 2017 science fiction film directed by Ben Foster and Mark Dennis. What is Time Trap about? Well, it’s about a cave where people are known to mysteriously disappear. A group of students head into the cave looking for their missing professor. Once in, they are in for a world of surprise when they … Read more
What is mechanics of time-travel? Simple, it’s the in-film concept based on which the character(s) experience time-travel. Do people appear and disappear with minimal explanation, or is there an innovative device or a fantastic element powering the time-travel? In short, it is ‘how‘ the time-travel takes place. The more thought out this fictional portion is, the … Read more
In The Shadow Of The Moon is a 2019 Sci-Fi Thriller directed by Jim Mickle and was released on Netflix. The story is centered on a cop on the hunt for a serial killer who resurfaces mysteriously unaged every decade. The cast includes Boyd Holbrook (from Logan), Cleopatra Coleman, and Michael C. Hall (the original … Read more
In case you’re wondering, this article has nothing to do with Sasha Daygame or the Infinite Man dating site. However, it is about The Infinite Man, a 2014 Science Fiction film that deals with Time-Loops. The movie’s directed by Hugh Sullivan and has done a reasonably good job handling the film’s complexities in a shoestring … Read more
Mirage (on Netflix) or Durante la Tormenta is a 2018 Spanish film written and directed by the incredibly talented Oriol Paulo. The cast includes Adriana Ugarte, Chino Darín, Javier Gutiérrez Álvarez, Álvaro Morte, and Nora Navas. Oriol’s previous movie was Contratiempo (The Invisible Guest), and he started off in feature films as a writer for … Read more
Avengers: Endgame is a fantastic ending to the epic Marvel Cinematic Universe story-line that was built around the Infinity Stones. The Russo Brothers have delivered well. A movie like the Infinity Wars was a tough act to follow. While Endgame is not as pacy as its prequel, it wraps the story up pretty well without … Read more
Looper is directed by Rian Johnson. The Looper cast includes Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis and Emily Blunt in the lead roles. This is a film that deals with time-travel as a means for evil syndicates to assassinate people. While the plot is pretty interesting, the time-travel does create unescapable paradoxes which are hard to ignore. … Read more
This is a Spanish film directed by Nacho Vigalondo who later wrote, directed and produced Colossal. Timecrimes is a lovely film with a simplistic setting that gets tangled in time complexities and ends by untangling itself free of any major plot holes. The film stars Karra Elejalde in the lead role. Nacho, himself, has played … Read more
