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SATURDAY SHORT: TIME SLIME (2012)

“Adventure Time”‘s creator Pendleton Ward teamed up with Breehn Burns to start the web series Bravest Warriors. In this first episode, the team must save the planet of Glendale from the Fartsparkles Effect.

CAPSULE: LA JETÉE (1962)

Note: In the third reader’s choice poll, 366 readers voted to make La Jetée a candidate for the List of the 366 Best Weird Movies ever made; we’ve upgraded its status accordingly.

DIRECTED BY: Chris Marker

FEATURING: Jean Négroni (narrator), Davos Hanich, Hélène Chatelain (models)

PLOT: After World War III, a man is trained . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: LA JETÉE (1962)

LIST CANDIDATE: PRIMER (2004)

DIRECTED BY: Shane Carruth

FEATURING: Shane Carruth, David Sullivan

PLOT: Two engineer/entrepreneurs accidentally discover a box that allows time travel, and

soon get themselves into trouble. WHY IT MIGHT MAKE THE LIST:  Primer‘s baffling story gives you an untethered, free-falling in reality feeling.  But although the dense, complicated, and deliberately obtuse plot produces . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: PRIMER (2004)

LIST CANDIDATE: PROXIMA (2007)

DIRECTED BY: Carlos Atanes

FEATURING: Oriol Aubets, Anthony Blake, Manuel Solás, Abel Folk

PLOT: Just as his life seems to be falling apart, aimless sci-fi nerd Tony (Aubets) becomes

accidentally entangled with a doomsday cult, a time-traveling conspiracy, and new method of interstellar transportation. Or does he? WHY IT MIGHT MAKE THE LIST: Atanes . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: PROXIMA (2007)

CAPSULE: S. DARKO (2009)

DIRECTED BY: Chris Fisher

FEATURING: Daveigh Chase, Briana Evigan, Ed Westwick

PLOT: Samantha Darko goes on a cross-country road trip and learns along the way

that, once again, the world will end at a predetermined time unless she figures out a way to stop it. Where’s Jake Gyllenhaal when you need him? WHY . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: S. DARKO (2009)

37. TIME BANDITS (1981)

“…Gilliam fearlessly brings the logic of children’s literature to the screen.  Plunging headfirst into history, myth, legend, and fairy tale, Gilliam sends his characters—a boy and six good-natured if rather larcenous little persons (i.e. seven dwarves)—careening through time-twisting interactions with Napoleon, Robin Hood, and Agamemnon (played, respectively, by Ian Holm, John Cleese, and Sean Connery).  . . . → Read More: 37. TIME BANDITS (1981)

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