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The Ghost Who Parkours — Review of Syfy’s The Phantom Syfy, 9:00PM Sunday Written by Daniel Knauf & Charles H. Knauf Directed by Paolo Barzman “I thought it would be kind of cheesy but once you do it live, it’s kinda cool.” —Kit Walker Syfy Channel’s latest translation of a comic book hero to the small screen comes as a four-hour epic, obviously designed as a test of the waters to see whether viewer reaction justifies a series. As such, it has some of the good points of a pilot—good character delineation, lavish production values, good directing—and some of the bad points—uneven…

Beside Himself—a review of Moon Written by Nathan Parker from a story by Duncan Jones Directed by Duncan Jones Starring Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey, Dominique McElligott What do you do if you need a human being to do a job which may kill him? As humans extend their reach into space, this question will become more and more acute. Do we send robots to do the job? Fine, but what if they can’t? What if the limits of artificial intelligence fall far short of the limits of natural intelligence? What if the job calls for intuition, instinct, or imagination? We’ll have…