A country that doesn’t exist: The twilight zone of Transnistria

Bill Fink January 9, 2018 Share this article A breakaway, ex-Soviet region that issues its own passports and isn’t recognized by the rest of the world? That’s only half the appeal of visiting this nation in limbo. Small men in big hats boarded our bus to ask for passports. Our guide hissed out a warning: […]

Twilight Zone Revival Ordered to Series at CBS All Access, With Get Out's Jordan Peele Among the EPs

CBS All Access is officially journeying back to a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind. The streaming service on Wednesday announced that it has ordered to series The Twilight Zone, a “modern reimagining” of the classic sci-fi anthology to be executive-produced by Jordan Peele (Get Out), Simon Kinberg (Legion) and Marco Ramirez (Marvel’s The […]

Get Out director Jordan Peele to reboot The Twilight Zone

Enlarge / The end credits from Twilight Zone episode “Eye of the Beholder,” written by the pride of Binghamton, New York—Rod Serling. (credit: CBS via Getty Images) The Twilight Zone (1959-1964) remains the rare bit of classic TV that can hold up today. SyFy proves this annually with its traditional Twilight Zone New Years’ marathon. So it shouldn’t […]

‘Twilight Zone’ Reboot Coming to CBS All Access from ‘Get Out’ Director Jordan Peele

You’ve gotta hand it to CBS All Access: they’ve just made it extremely difficult to avoid subscribing to their subscription streaming service. A new report says that Jordan Peele – the former Key & Peele star and the architect behind Get Out, one of 2017’s best movies – is working on a reboot of Rod Serling‘s seminal sci-fi anthology […]

Daily Podcast: The Best TV Shows Of The Past 5 Years, Star Wars, Twilight Zone, Shazam, Orville, Pixar, Fast & Furious

On the November 2, 2017 episode of /Film Daily, Peter Sciretta is joined by Jacob Hall and Chris Evangelista for the latest news, including a Twilight Zone reboot from Jordan Peele, Shazam casting, The Orville get a second season, the future of Star Wars films, and some theme park news including Fast and Furious: Supercharged […]

Twilight Imperium v4 review: All-day sci-fi gaming just got better

Enlarge / Mid-game: Blue’s bold rush to Mecatol Rex in the center basically sees its territory carved between rival powers (so, just like real life). (credit: Tom Mendelsohn) Ever since its first edition was released almost 20 years ago, Twilight Imperium has been one of the most massive propositions in tabletop gaming. Over the years, it […]

Midnight Scenes takes adventure gaming into The Twilight Zone

After Barcelona-based Octavi Navarro worked on the art for Terrible Toybox’s point-and-click game Thimbleweed Park, he decided to embark on his own project: Midnight Scenes. It’s inspired by one of his favorite TV shows, The Twilight Zone, and it’s the first game he’s developed as a solo act. He’s released one episode so far called The Highway, and it’s […]

Stanley Fischer and the twilight of technocracy

IN 2004 Stanley Fischer described the wonder he felt as an economics student in the 1960s. “You had a set of equations”, he said, “that meant you could control the economy.” Technocracy—the dream of scientific government by a caste of wise men—arose in the 20th century, as rapid change rendered the world unfathomably complex; in […]

More ‘Hunger Games’ and ‘Twilight’ Movies May Happen If Lionsgate Gets Its Way

Lionsgate may volunteer the Hunger Games and Twilight franchises as tribute to reboot mania. Both franchises wrapped up their stories before cinematic universe fever broke, and Lionsgate is itching to fill the hole — first by exploring a John Wick universe that spans movies, TV, and comic books, and now by revisiting their most popular and lucrative franchises. Lionsgate CEO […]

Robert Pattinson was almost FIRED from Twilight – For the OPPOSITE of what you'd think

The brooding teen icon revealed the hilarious reason in a recent interview. It would almost be ironic, if the resolutely po-faced movies had been capable of the slightest hint of irony. Pattinson, or the man formerly known as R-Patz, played the vampire Edward Cullen, a creature with a distinct aversion to sunlight and and any […]