It occurs to me that I’m way overdue my self-imposed schedule for updating my progress on my overall viewing goals for 2025, so I thought I’d hammer that out. To review, at the start of the year I came up with a list of 25 new things that…
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Sam leaps into Dan Morganstern, a contestant on the gameshow The $50,000 Quest, at a time when it is rightly under suspicion for helping contestant’s cheat in order to help rating remain high. At the same time, Sam believes that he must “throw” the game so that someone…
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Doctor Who has long been my favorite show, but it’s been a couple of years since I’ve actually watched anything but the newest episodes. Before that, I was making a respectable run at getting through the original series, most of which I haven’t seen for decades. For various reasons,…
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Another crazy month. I mean, life always feels crazy, it always feels busy, but in August I actually went on a trip to India at the same time that my wife went on a trip to Africa. I came back before she did, so I was mostly…
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Stateless is an Australian TV series that ran back in 2020–a six episode drama inspired by real-life stories of would-be refugees stuck in an Australian immigration detention centre. I got curious about it a while ago because of the presence of a couple of different actors, and put…
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Sam leaps into an MIT student whose girlfriend is supposed to make a critical discovery that will help to inspire Project Quantum Leap itself. Sam’s arrival threatens this discovery and the girlfriend’s whole career, so he must work to fix it. Writer: Link Yaco. Illustrator: Andy Price. Letterer:…
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Doctor Who has long been my favorite show, but it’s been a couple of years since I’ve actually watched anything but the newest episodes. Before that, I was making a respectable run at getting through the original series, most of which I haven’t seen for decades. For various reasons,…
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“Screenlife” is a term used to describe a newish format for movies, in which the story is told entirely via images on a computer screen. Things like Google searches or scrolling through social media, or maybe FaceTime or Zoom calls become vehicles for unfolding plot, character, and all…
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And back on the plane I went, when it was time to come home from my latest journey overseas. Like on my way out, my first flight international leg of my journey was overnight, which means I’ll usually tune into one movie just to tire myself out, before…
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Sam leaps into a department store Santa named Nick in 1963, who just might be the real thing. He has to help restore a young girl’s belief in the spirit of Christmas, while also helping her father to not be framed for theft by a dishonest fellow employee.…
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