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APORIA MOVIE REVIEW
When Marty McFly returned to his home at the end of Back to the Future, he found that his actions in the past had a ripple effect on the timeline. He still lived in his house, but it was nice now. His brother and sister were still there, but they had real jobs. Biff was a loser (and his dad’s slave?). And his parents were now cool and in love. Only he retained the memories of the timeline that once was. Was this okay, because it all worked out so well for Marty? What were the other unintended consequences of his meddling with time? Aporia presents that moral quandary in a much quieter and complex way. What if you could change the past by flicking a switch? What if that simple action would erase the person who ruined your life from existence? If it meant bringing a loved one back to your reality, regardless of the ripple on the world, would you kill someone with a press of a button? Sophie (Judy Greer), has struggled to manage grief, a full-time job, and parenting her devastated daughter Riley, but when a friend reveals a secret time-bending machine, Sophie is faced with an impossible choice. Jordan, Frank, Lewayne, and T.C. hop in the One Of Us Wayback Machine to discuss the complexities of paradoxical time travel, praise the quietude of this indie film, and decide where to aim their own time gun.
DIRECTED BY: Jared Moshe
STARRING: Judy Greer, Edi Gathegi, Payman Maadi, Faithe Herman, Rachel Paulson, Adam O’Byrne, Veda Cienfuegos, Dionne Audain, Lisa Linke, Whitney Morgan Cox, Coel Mahal, Elohim Nycalove, Jeffrey Sun, Mann Alfonso, Grace Hinson
YOUR REVIEWERS
T.C. De Witt (Screener Squad)
T.C. De Witt is a multi-awarded writer/director originally from Wisconsin and now based in Los Angeles. His life has been devoted to the arts since he was a child. He’s been a stage performer, playwright, stand-up comic, film and television actor, radio DJ, podcaster published author, recorded musician, and comic writer/illustrator. He is now a professional screenwriter and has been thriving for the past decade, regularly offering his talents to production studios in LA, Chicago, Milwaukee, and internationally in Sydney and Poland. He’s provided content for Amazon Prime, Netflix, and several YouTube partners. His films have screened internationally, and his stageplays have been performed across the country. In the last ten years, he has directed 57 films, 23 episodes of his series The One Minute Rewatch, 300+ episodes of podcasts, and his multi-award-winning short film Screen: Righter screened at the Festival de Cannes in 2016. He has released two feature films, The Princess Knight and A Christmas Sunset. He thrives on collaboration and the thrill of sharing stories in all forms.
Jordan Cobb (Screener Squad)
Born with a comic book in one hand, a camera in the other, and in front of the television as WrestleMania played out, Jordan Worth Cobb was thus birthed into this crazy world. A Digital Filmmaking major from the University of Central Arkansas, Jordan has done it all in film from directing, writing, editing, and producing in addition to skills involved in film and TV criticism, journalism, and years of podcasting experience. On any given day, her ADHD riddled brain bounces focus from film to pro wrestling to TV to superheroes to noir to video games to espionage and yes, even to sports. She played little league you know. For more of this eccentric nerd, you can follow her on Twitter here and read her original writings on Deepest Corners of My Notebook.
Frank Calvillo (Highly Suspect Reviews, Screener Squad)
Born and raised in South Texas, Frank currently lives in Austin and has been in love with movies ever since his father showed him some Three Stooges shorts when he was five years old. Today he loves all kinds of film, regardless of era, country, budget or genre. He believes every film has an audience and is at least one person’s favorite movie. After writing for Sight & Sound and Slackerwood, he now writes for Cinapse where his increasingly random taste in all flavors of cinema (from Rashomon to Mars Attacks!) continues to thrive. His ultimate goal is to write a script for his boyhood crush, Michelle Pfeiffer.
Lewayne White (Screener Squad)
Lewayne’s earliest memories are of watching movies and reading comics, which instilled in him a sense of wonder, a vivid imagination, and unrealistic expectations. It also means he spends a lot of time watching movies, writing scripts for them, and trying to get them made. He lives in the middle of middle America after landing there as a child, and has remained there mainly because he hates packing.
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