Everyone knows the rules by now, even people who haven't watched the trilogy in years. You need a flux capacitor. You need 1.21 gigawatts of power. And you need to hit exactly 88 miles per hour at the moment it all comes together. Say those numbers out loud to almost anyone and they'll nod, maybe … Continue reading Could Back to the Future’s Time Travel Actually Work?
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Stargate: Building a TV Universe from a Single Film
Here's something worth thinking about as Amazon MGM Studios gears up for a brand new Stargate series: a movie that Roger Ebert once called out by name as evidence of cinema at its worst somehow spawned over 15 years of television, 364 episodes across three live-action series, two direct-to-DVD films, and a Guinness World Record. … Continue reading Stargate: Building a TV Universe from a Single Film
The Question I Couldn’t Stop Asking (And the Book It Became)
I was five years old the first time I saw Back to the Future, sitting in the back of my family's car at a drive-in theater. I didn't understand half of what was happening on screen. I definitely didn't understand the science, or the lack of it, behind a souped-up DeLorean hitting 88 miles per … Continue reading The Question I Couldn’t Stop Asking (And the Book It Became)
The Confusing Middle 