“To know is one thing, but to believe is completely different.”
The 2022 Swedish sci-fi film released in America for the first time asks questions about whether or not we are alone in the universe, but even more so it explores how we treat those who dare raise the question. The film has it where it counts exploring both the intellectual curiosity and emotional need of its characters as they search for the answer of what’s really out there.
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One of the concepts Doctor Who has explored over the years, with select companions, is what happens to those people after they leave and attempt to go back to a normal life. With The Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) and Belinda Chandra (Varada Sethu) still stuck unable to reach the present, “Lucky Day” instead gives us a Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson) episode that isn’t what it initially appears. The first-half of the episode deals with Ruby attempting to move on from her time-traveling adventures and beginning a hopeful relationship with Conrad (Jonah Hauer-King) who it turns out also had a short encounter with The Doctor as a child and is not what it seems.
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Following the format of Tales of the Jedi and Tales of the Empire, the opening episode of the new Star Wars animated series focuses on Asajj Ventress (Nika Futterman), her resurrection on Dathomir and the new life she makes for herself staying under the radar until she’s drawn back into the fray in her attempts to help a young Jedi named Lyco (Lane Factor). Keeping the kid safe and one-step ahead of the Stormtroopers and Inquisitor (Daniel Ross) after him, forces Ventress to reveal herself and leave her new life behind in favor of the unknown.
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The highest-grossing film of Jean-Claude Van Damme‘s career, Timecop stars the kickboxing action star as an officer of the Time Enforcement Commission who attempt to prevent those from misusing time travel now that it has been discovered. Aside from a few flashes here and there in the past (the machine only allows you to travel backwards and then return to your own time), the film primarily takes place in two time periods. We get the early 90s where Max and his wife (Mia Sara) are attacked prior to him ever joining the TEC, and we get the near-future or present (ten years later) where Max is a more grizzled veteran of the agency.
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An unexpected callback to a David Tennant episode, “The Well” deposits The Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) takes Belinda Chandra (Varada Sethu) on a foreign world in the far future where a group of soldiers is investigating what went wrong with all the workers who appear to have gone mad leaving only one hearing-impaired miner (Rose Ayling-Ellis) left alive. Easily the creepiest episode of Who‘s run on Disney+, “The Well” plays on several classic tropes involving gun-totting soliders jumping to the wrong conclusion while The Doctor slowly works through what is hiding behind Aliss (Ayling-Ellis) and how it ties back to his first visit to the world in “Midnight.”
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