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Paradox: The Time Travel PodcastEpisode 25: Hot Tub Time MachineFinally, we’ve come to the smoking-hot group of middle-aged friends reliving their cocaine-fueled glory days in an ’80s comedy of time travel that is “Hot Tub Time Machine.”
There aren’t a ton of time travel comedies out there, but “Hot Tub Time Machine” manages to be pretty funny, when it isn’t being a little overly sexist and very 2010. Still, a few great time travel and 1980s comedy gags thanks to the very solid casting of Crispin Glover.
Turns out, “Hot Tub Time Machine” has a lot in common with “Back to the Future,” in that it ha...2023-09-3048 minParadox: The Time Travel PodcastBonus Episode: Paradox Q&AFinally, we’ve come to a smoking-hot question and answer episode of time travel, rounding up some interesting questions from our amazing listeners. It’s Q&A time!
In this bonus episode, we dug up a bunch of questions listeners have put to us on the various social media channels for Paradox, like its Facebook page, the Facebook page for “So You Created a Wormhole,” and our Twitter accounts, @philhornshaw and @hewizard. (You can use them to ask us questions too!)
While we always get back to people on those social places (or at least we think w...2023-09-301h 10Paradox: The Time Travel PodcastEpisode 24: TriangleFinally, we’ve come to the hellish murder cruise of parenthood of time travel that is “Triangle.” For real, this is one Phil, as the resident horror movie fan, has been looking forward to for a while.
This is definitely one of those movies you need to watch before we talk about it. More than the usual spoiler warnings here! “Triangle” is best experienced with zero understanding of it. The fact you’re reading about it here, on our time travel podcast, is already a spoiler!
Did you watch it? Okay. Moving on.
“Triangle” is a...2023-09-301h 47Paradox: The Time Travel PodcastEpisode 23: PredestinationFinally we’ve come to the adaptation of a tragic 1950s Robert Heinlein short story about really cruel timeloops that is “Predestination.”
Yup, it’s been a long time. We’re pretty sure some old man stole our car and messed around with the radio presets and other buttons, and long story short, it’s 2018 and our Creedence tapes are missing. …I may be mixing my movie jokes here.
Anyway, it’s “Predestination,” the 2014 Sarah Snook and Ethan Hawke vehicle that adapts what might have felt like an eminently unadaptable but classic 1959 Robert Heinlein short story, “All You Zomb...2023-09-301h 58Paradox: The Time Travel PodcastEpisode 22: Edge of TomorrowFinally, we've come to the smoking hot cycle of endless, painful death matched only by the endless monotony of life (but, you know, funny) that is "Edge of Tomorrow."
Tom Cruise’s foray into time travel takes a lot of cues from Bill Murray’s “Groundhog Day,” but adds a sci-fi angle and throws in aliens. It’s cool, goofy, and hilarious, and it has a terrible title.
“Edge of Tomorrow” puts together a pretty solid time loop movie from those ingredients, and does well to avoid some of the issues loop movies struggle with by placing its...2023-09-301h 53Paradox: The Time Travel PodcastEpisode 21: Bill & Ted’s Excellent AdventureFinally, we've come to the smoking-hot mystery at the Circle K of time travel that is Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.
Strange things are definitely afoot for Bill and Ted, but as far as time travelers are concerned, the two confused San Dimas high schoolers are actually pretty damn good at this. Ted intuits how nonlinear causality works on pretty much his first try, which is something that is often the undoing of most other time travelers.
And while “Bill & Ted” might be a bit heavy on deus ex machina for getting its heroes out of tight...2023-09-301h 42Paradox: The Time Travel PodcastEpisode 20: Project AlmanacFinally, we've come to the smoking-hot Imagine Dragons concert of a time travel movie, of time travel: "Project Almanac."
After a ridiculous nine-month delay brought on by familial responsibilities, job responsibilities, and excuse-making, the Paradox podcast is finally back! We’re sorry.
We’ve powered through, though, and we’re finally back with an episode about Peggy Sue Got Married! Oh, wait, no, for some reason we didn’t do that even though it had been requested, and we hopped over to Project Almanac instead. We’ll come back to you, Peggy Sue and Nicolas Cage doing...2023-09-301h 54Paradox: The Time Travel PodcastEpisode 19: Deja VuFinally, we've come to the smoking-hot excuse to watch Denzel Washington be smoking hot (in several ways) in a movie of time travel: "Deja Vu."
The Tony Scott-directed, Denzel Washington-starring movie is a consummate action vehicle that actually does pretty well with time travel. It's also the movie that originally inspired "So You Created a Wormhole: The Time Traveler's Guide to Time Travel." After watching it way back in 2006 (or whenever), it was "Deja Vu" that led us to look into trying to explain time travel stories.
As it turns out, though, "Deja Vu" is...2023-09-301h 57Paradox: The Time Travel PodcastEpisode 18: FAQ About Time TravelFinally, we've come to the smoking hot British-comedy-about-a-time-travel-bathroom of time travel, "Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel."
By popular demand, we're diving into the 2009 comedy that mixes a bit of a "Shawn of the Dead" vibe with some time travel tropes, some "Back to the Future" gags, and some generally nerdy discussions of why Hollywood puts out a bunch of crap sequels instead of great sci-fi movies, because jeez.
All the knowledge of every sci-fi movie ever can't save "FAQ" from getting lost in its time travel ideas, however. Still pretty funny, though!
...2023-09-301h 18Paradox: The Time Travel PodcastEpisode 17: Donnie DarkoFinally, we've come to the smoking hot six-foot Halloween bunny hallucination from the future of time travel, "Donnie Darko."
Way back from 2001 comes a broody teenage angst story that's also about time travel, God, sacrifice and parallel universes. "Donnie Darko" is a weird case because it has an original cut of the movie, which is pretty, uh, ambiguous, and a director's cut that is significantly less ambiguous, but no less confusing.
The good news is, we've gone through both versions in our analysis in Episode 17! The bad news, this is our longest episode (and it f...2023-09-302h 06Paradox: The Time Travel PodcastEpisode 16: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Finally, we've come to the smoking hot Harry Potter spawn in stage play form of time travel: "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" -- our first play!
The "eighth" Harry Potter book (which is actually a script) takes a bit of what was started in "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" and kicks it into high magic time travel gear. Over the course of the two-part play, a couple of dumb kids make every time travel mistake pretty much ever. Albus Severus Potter and Scorpius Malfoy are basically Marty McFly if the general time t...2023-09-301h 46Paradox: The Time Travel PodcastEpisode 15: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of AzkabanFinally, we've come to smoking hot wizard-children-mess-with-the-time-space-continuum-with-zero-adult-supervision of time travel: "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban."
We're prepping for our next episode, in which we're covering the newly released stage script, "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child." To get in the mindset for a wizardly time travel story, we're checking out a (much more compact) wizardly time travel story. Azkaban might not be as time travel-heavy as "Primer" and the other films that we've covered here, but that doesn't mean there's not plenty to break down.
You know, like the many failed timelines in wh...2023-09-301h 00Paradox: The Time Travel PodcastEpisode 14: Primer, Part 2Finally it's blah blah blah smoking hot "Primer" episode blah blah blah way too long here you go. It's Part 2 of our double-wide episode on the technically proficient and complex "Primer."
Quick note: By now you'll have seen the "Part 2" up there in the headline. Ridiculously convoluted as "Primer" is known to be -- believe us when we say it's one of the movie's charms -- we wound up recording an insane, double-wide near 2.5 hours of episode for this one. As such, we've split Episode 14 into two parts, hopefully making it more digestible for you, our beloved...2023-09-301h 23Paradox: The Time Travel PodcastEpisode 14: Primer, Part 1Finally, we've come to the smoking hot ridiculously-convoluted-best-friend-betrayal-so-you-can-look-baller-at-a-party of time travel, "Primer."
Often exalted as one of the best time travel movies out there, "Primer" is a 2004 indie film written and directed by, and starring, Shane Carruth. In a big way, it's one of the most technically exacting time travel movies, and it's often thought of as being pretty difficult to follow as a result. But that's why we're here!
As always, you're going to want to make sure you've watched the movie before listening, because we're going to spoil the hell out of it...2023-09-301h 02Paradox: The Time Travel PodcastEpisode 13: 12 Monkeys and La JetéeFinally, we've come to smoking hot viral-end-of-the-world-and-animals-inherit-the-Earth of Time Travel: "12 Monkeys." And "La Jetée," the short film it's based on, as well.
Look, this is our longest episode, and one of us is neck-deep in the hundreds of thousands of people-strong insanity that is Comic-Con. So go ahead and listen, because we're feeling a little nuts.
Also, one more mega-huge thanks to listener Tim Taber for his generous donation to the cause of talking about time travel movies!
In this episode:
Phil's at Comic-Con!
"12 Monkeys," "La Jetée," an...2023-09-301h 38Paradox: The Time Travel PodcastEpisode 12: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IIIFinally, we've come to the totally nonsensical "giant anthropomorphic turtles with googly eyes that make you uncomfortable" of time travel: "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III."
The lesser of the three original "Turtles" films, "TMNT III" includes time travel back to 1600s Japan for some reason. This is accomplished by a weird scepter, the rules of which make zero sense.
Somewhat in honor of the release of the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows", the second movie in the new rebooted Turtles continuity that Phil rather likes, we're digging into 1993's ignoble end to...2023-09-301h 01Paradox: The Time Travel PodcastEpisode 11: Time After TimeFinally, we've come to the smoking hot "1979 San Francisco riff on a classic time travel story -- but with Jack the Ripper also because that's awesome" of time travel: Time After Time.
Director Nicholas Meyer dives into H.G. Wells' novel The Time Machine, mixes in the story of an 1800s serial killer, takes the whole thing to San Francisco (just like he will with Star Trek in The Undiscovered Country) and tosses in the First Lady of Time Travel, Mary Steenburgen.
Then things get weird, as Time After Time is alternately an adventure story, a fish...2023-09-301h 11Paradox: The Time Travel PodcastBonus Episode: ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6’s ‘The Door’Yup, the hit super-violent fantasy TV show Game of Thrones went ahead and somewhat haphazardly introduced time travel. So welcome to a very special bonus episode of Paradox, in which we attempt to make some sense of the extremely limited tidbits of information presented in Game of Thrones Season 6, Episode 5: "The Door."
(Spoiler alert from the future: They never did explain the time travel and it never did make sense.)
The "bonus" part of this episode is that it's a short one, mostly because there are a ton of unknowns when it comes to Game of T...2023-09-3034 minParadox: The Time Travel PodcastEpisode 10: X-Men: Days of Future PastFinally, we've come to the smoking hot "Goofy attempt to link a reboot to the rest of its franchise" of time travel: X-Men: Days of Future Past.
The second movie in the rebooted X-Men franchise (or are they prequels?) and the, like, ninth film in the X-Men continuity (or is it a continuity at all?), Days of Future Past introduces everyone's favorite plot device: time travel. In order to save the world from an awful fascist future full of killer robots, the future X-Men decide to send Wolverine (who else, when it comes to these movies) back in t...2023-09-301h 34Paradox: The Time Travel PodcastEpisode 9: TimecopIn This Episode:-How to Watch Timecop: Amazon, YouTube, Vudu, iTunes, Google Play-New Donate button!-Catching up with "Time Lapse"-The weirdo, never again relevant opening scene of "Timecop"-You Can't Kill Hitler-You Can't Travel to the Future (Except When You Can and Do)-Van Damme's Ass-All About Entwood, McComb and a variety of time travel henchmen-The Nonsensical time machine of "Timecop"-Alternate 2004-McComb is Terrible at Villainy-The Same Matter Can't Occupy the Same Space-Timeline Breakdown2023-09-301h 37Paradox: The Time Travel PodcastEpisode 8: Time LapseFinally, we've come to the smoking hot "you should really read a few Wikipedia articles before you make life-changing decisions using knowledge of the future" cautionary tale of time travel: Time Lapse.
A camera that can see the future seems awesome, especially when you use knowledge of tomorrow to make you rich today. But the trouble in Time Lapse is the three friends who stumble on this future-knowledge technology spend the whole movie afraid they're going to get murdered by supernatural time forces, and that colors all their unfortunate future decisions.
If you haven't watched Ti...2023-09-301h 12Paradox: The Time Travel PodcastEpisode 7: TimecrimesFinally, we've come to the smoking hot "hellish causality loop in which free will doesn't exist — but in Spanish" of time travel: Timecrimes (or Los Cronocrímenes).
Director Ignacio "Nacho" Vigalondo's time travel story follows our take on Looper. It's another time loop movie, but this time the loop is actually a loop, complete with the fatalistic feeling that it's impossible to break free, and that all of time — past, present and future — are already set.
f you haven't seen Timecrimes, as always, listening to this episode will ruin it for you. So stream it beforehand! Phil...2023-09-301h 20Paradox: The Time Travel PodcastEpisode 6: LooperFinally, we've come to the smoking hot "if you met Baby Hitler, would you kill him?" moral dilemma of time travel, "Looper."
We're old hands at analyzing "Looper" -- we dug into the movie way back when So You Created a Wormhole was first released in this article for The Huffington Post. We'll be revisiting those ideas, as well as delving into new ones, getting lost in some of the weird time travel idiosyncracies of "Looper," and wondering what's the deal with kale. That's more of a side discussion but maybe it's, like, symbolic, man.2023-09-301h 32Paradox: The Time Travel PodcastEpisode 5: Terminatory GenesysFinally, we've come to the smoking hot nuke-from-orbit of time travel that is Terminator: Genisys.
Concluding our look at the (absolutely ridiculous, paradox-ridden time travel disaster that is the) Terminator franchise, we're diving into Terminator: Genisys -- the Terminator movie that completely nukes the entire Terminator timeline and all its rules, then makes up entirely new ones.
If you haven't seen the film, you might be a bit lost, and you will absolutely be spoiled. Listen at your own risk!
Also, check out this Entertainment Weekly article that does a good job of running dow...2023-09-301h 14Paradox: The Time Travel PodcastEpisode 4: Terminator 1, 2, and 3Finally, we've come to the smoking hot machine overlord of time travel: "The Terminator."
James Cameron's seminal action movie about a robot from the future trying to annihilate his future competition by killing him before he's born isn't the most cogent of time travel stories -- it basically exists thanks to some fudged rules of causality that allow one person to chase another through time without feeling the effects of the first person's travel -- but it's a solid story and one of the best-known examples of time travel in film.
Unfortunately, the longer "Terminator" g...2023-09-301h 18Paradox: The Time Travel PodcastEpisode 3: Back to the Future IIIEpisode 3 rounds out our stint on "Back to the Future" with a lengthy discussion of mess of "Part III" timelines, Marty McFly's personal growth, and what the hell a "BttF: Part IV" would look like ("Revenge of the Martys," probably).
-Last time, on Paradox: Doc Brown has yet more information about the future-In fact, Doc Brown is super-bad about this whole "don't meddle with time" philosophy-The timeline becomes a mess-Professional Teenager Marty McFly-Pie-tin Frisbee-How badly should Hill Valley be altered by all this-What the hell...2023-09-301h 22Paradox: The Time Travel PodcastEpisode 2: Back to the Future: Part IIAfter the startling revelation that Doc Brown must have been a mastermind of near-supervillain proportions once armed with 30 years of foreknowledge, Nick and Phil break down the rest of "Back to the Future: Part II." Settle in!
- Last time, on Paradox: Doc Brown has more information than he's letting on- The Two Martys- New Jennifer vs. Old Jennifer- Timelines: 1955->1985a, 1985b, 1985c and 1985d- Biff is a murder guy now- The Old Biff Plothole- 5 Fan Theories about "Back to the Future"2023-09-301h 15Paradox: The Time Travel PodcastEpisode 1: Back to the FutureIn the first ever Paradox podcast, Nick and Phil tackle the smoking hot mother of all time travel movies: Back To The Future.
Show contents:
-Welcome to Paradox!-Is Doc Brown secretly a dick?-Marty McFly: Lucky & Oblivious-Pepsi Free-Johnny B. Goode-Skateboarding: How Does It Work?-New Martys, New Timelines-SO YOU CREATED A WORMHOLE: The Time Traveler's Guide To Time Travel-THE SPACE HERO'S GUIDE TO GLORY: How To Get Off Your Podunk Planet & Master The Final Frontier
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The Raconteur RoundtableTVCU #20 - Flux Capacitor on the TARDIS with Phil Hornshaw & Nick HurwitchJoin the TVCU Crew and M.H. Norris, the mystery maven and sci-fi sorceress, as we chat with Phil Hornshaw & Nick Hurwitch of QUAN+UM, authors of the time travel guide, So You Created a Wormhole, and The Space Hero's Guide to Glory: How to Get Off Your Podunk Planet and Master the Final Frontier. We talk to them a lot about the perils and perplexities of time travel using films and television shows to illustrate the theories of time travel. (Originally presented April 19, 2016.)2017-03-1758 min
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