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time travel wars

Greatest Time-Travel Duels Of All Time(lines)

Some of the greatest battles in science fiction haven't involved dogfights or shoot-outs, but time-traveling smackdowns, with two different people trying to change history out from under each other. Like Marty and Biff, trying to wipe out each other's timelines in this clip from Back To The Future 2. As soon as you have more than one time machine, you can have timeline-altering sniper fights, and whoever can erase the other person's time line first wins. Start your paradox engines, and may the slipperiest time-trickster win! More »

10:30 AM on Tue Apr 15 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
9,532 views, 87 comments

Latest by Rhysesmum: OK, puting aside SF series such as Star Trek, Star gate, Far Scape, X Files and numerous others that have pulled out the trusty old Time Travel storylines, here are some movies that havent been mentioned yet. Heroes (series I know more »

timecrimes

Time Travel + Porn = Nacho Vigalondo

Timecrimes might be the second best film involving time travel to come out of Sundance (top honors go to Primer, and Timecrimes writer/director Nacho Vigalondo is a fan of it). In a recent interview, Vigalondo being a comic book nerd (he's pictured here with a copy of fave book The Ultimates), and why porn and time travel are the best combination ever. More »

2:30 PM on Tue Feb 19 2008
By Kevin Kelly
2,820 views, 11 comments

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Alternate Selves, Alternate Histories for Sundance's SciFi Offerings

The Sundance Film Festival enters its 27th year in January, and the organizers just announced the lineup of films for this year. They include only two vaguely science fictional films: The Broken and Timecrimes. This is part of a trend: Sundance tends to shun science fiction films in general, despite the fact that Sundance declared itself "scifi friendly" in 2004.
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3:30 PM on Mon Dec 3 2007
By Kevin Kelly
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Time Travel Is Like Heroin in Primer

Four corporate drones trying to spinoff a cool startup accidentally discover time travel in Shane Carruth's dark SF flick Primer, a Sundance hit in 2004. Carruth's tale explores what happens when time travel doesn't work quite the way you'd expect — to travel back in time 6 hours, you have to sit in a cramped time machine for 6 hours getting bombarded with half-understood radiation and gasses. It makes your ears bleed and your handwriting get shaky. You may see yourself die, or you may actually have to kill one of your doubles. And yet the power of being able to change time is so addictive that our two main characters, Abe and Aaron, can't stop. They do nothing but go back in time again and again, living on crackers and bottled water in a storage space where they've stored the time machines. And then things really begin to unravel. More »

2:59 PM on Mon Nov 12 2007
By Annalee Newitz
264 views, 1 comment

Latest by tamoko: I love this film... simple. sometimes brutal and in your face. I 'refreshing" look at time travel that begs you tp watch it over and over as you notice more paradoxes, time loops and subtle hints. more »