Paradox: The Time Travel Podcast

Finally, 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...

Finally, 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,  @p...

Finally, 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...

Finally, 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”...

Finally, 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 somethin...

Finally, 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 Marrie...

Finally, 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'...

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 p...

Finally, 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'...

Finally 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'...

Finally, 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 i...

Finally, 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 m...

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...

Finally, 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 trave...

In 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 -Th...

Finally, 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 o...

Finally, 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 t...

Finally, 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, ge...

Finally, 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 o...

Finally, 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 a...

Episode 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 wh...

After 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, 19...

In 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 - TH...