This version is probably my all-time favorite anthology show. Its best episodes were really fantastic and even some of the mediocre stories had their charms.

posted 4 years ago in The Twilight Zone (1985)

I love anthology shows! My ranking of the anthology shows I've seen would be: The Twilight Zone 1985 Tales from the Crypt The Twilight Zone 1959 Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction Black Mirror The Outer Limits 1995 Monsters Alfred Hitchcock Presents 1985 Amazing Stories 1985 50 States of Fright Masters of Horror Night Gallery The Twilight Zone 2002 Tales from the Darkside The Outer Limits 1963 The Hitchhiker Creepshow The Ray Bradbury Theater Fear Itself Amazing Stories 2020 Night Visions Creeped Out The Twilight Zone 2019

posted 4 years ago in The Twilight Zone (2002)

A Message From Charity is my favorite episode of the entire Twilight Zone franchise. It's a beautiful love story with a clever, intriguing sci-fi twist and a moving ending that gets me teary-eyed every time I watch it. The episode has a very cinematic quality to it, and Robert Duncan McNeil and Kerry Noonan have amazing chemistry even though they're never on screen together at the same time. Basil Poledouris also delivers an excellent score. He may very well be the most underrated composer of all time. As far as any other Twilight Zone episodes like it, Her Pilgrim Soul is probably the closest in tone and style, but it appears you've already seen it. If you're open to other similar anthology shows, I would recommend two episodes from Amazing Stories. The first would be The Doll, from the 1985 original series, and the other would be The Cellar, from the 2020 reboot on Apple TV plus. Both are romantic stories with a supernatural and/or sci-fi twist to them. They're not quite as good as A Message From Charity, but they are effective and moving episodes.

posted 4 years ago in The Twilight Zone (1985)

I had a lot of fun watching Shadow in the Cloud. The year is short, but it's the most entertaining new film I've seen so far! It was like a mix of The Twilight Zone's Nightmare at 20,000 Feet crossed with Amazing Stories' The Mission, but packed with a whole lot more action. The cast was great, especially Chloe Grace Moretz, and the synth score was terrific and catchy.

posted 4 years ago in Shadow in the Cloud (2021)

A Message from Charity - This is my single favorite episode in the entire TZ franchise. It's a beautiful and moving love story and coming of age tale with an interesting twist on both the telepathic link and the time travel genre. The ending moves me to tears every time I watch it. The Helgrammite Method The Toys of Caliban I of Newton The Star The Card Kentucky Rye Dealer's Choice To See the Invisible Man The Cold Equations Her Pilgrim Soul Examination Day Dead Run The Shadow Man

posted 4 years ago in The Twilight Zone (1985)

Hostiles Lonesome Dove The Outlaw Josey Wales Bone Tomahawk Open Range High Plains Drifter Maverick Ravenous Brimstone Unforgiven

posted 4 years ago in Open Range (2003)

There were a few episodes that I thought were okay, but there isn't a single great or genuinely memorable episode out of the entirety, and the majority of the episodes are mediocre at best and pretty bad at worst. I'm a big fan of both the 1959 and 1985 versions (the '85 is my personal favorite, with some admitted 80s nostalgia playing a factor there) and this is a massive step down from both those renditions. I thought for sure this would at least be superior to the 2002 TZ (which I thought made for okay junk-food entertainment), but this is actually a fair bit worse and is easily the worst of the four TZ shows.

posted 4 years ago in The Twilight Zone (2019)

Fully agree. This was a powerful film with fantastic performances, an engrossing and moving story, stunning cinematography, and intense action sequences. The final scene is one of the most emotional and memorable endings I've seen in a while, playing as a reverse homage to the ending of The Searchers, and Max Richter's beautiful score is so haunting. Hostiles is actually the film that got me genuinely interested in Westerns. After seeing Hostiles, I pretty much went back and watched or re-watched as many Westerns as possible and I've become fairly obsessed with the genre since then, having seen other classics like Lonesome Dove (which runs neck-and-neck with Hostiles as my favorite of the genre), High Plains Drifter, and The Outlaw Josey Wales.

posted 4 years ago in Hostiles (2018)

I thought it was an excellent film. It was a gripping dramatic thriller with great performances and beautiful scenery. This was probably the most tense and suspenseful film I saw last year. The conversations between the Blackledges and the Weboys were some of my favorite dialogue exchanges ever, so full of simmering tension.

posted 4 years ago in Let Him Go (2020)