Today, if you turn on Netflix or Cable television, you’ll most likely come across at least a half-dozen shows involving a variety of heroes travelling through time to fix history, including such shows as Timeless, The Librarians, and the Travelers, yet back in the 80s this was a relatively rare concept for television. Other than…
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Terminator: Dark Fate (2019) – Review
When a franchise deals heavily with time travel, each additional sequel can easily cause the wheels to wobble until they eventually fall off. Case in point, Terminator Genisys, but with Terminator: Dark Fate, producer James Cameron and director Tim Miller took a page out of Halloween (2018) by ignoring the existence of unwanted sequels and…
Mega Time Squad (2018) – Review
What would you do if you had a time travel device? Would you visit the Cretaceous Period and ride a dinosaur? Or would you hunt down and kill baby Hitler? Maybe you’d just go back far enough to tell your younger self not to sign up for a certain dating app — I’m totally not…
The Fantastic Journey (1977) – Review
In 1977, producer Bruce Lansbury brought to the small screen a show called The Fantastic Journey, a startling tale about a small group of people trapped on a mysterious island — decades before J.J. Abrams would conjure up his series Lost — and though this particular series didn’t even manage a full season, thanks to the…
Time Trap (2017) – Review
There are many time travel stories – with heroes zipping back and forth through time – from the H.G. Wells’ classic The Time Machine to more modern comedic tales like Back to the Future, but most of these time travel stories have one thing in common, they have some sort of device that propels our…