We've had a slew of "found footage" horror movies lately, along with the superhero film Chronicle and the space movies Apollo 18 and Europa Report. So what's next? Apparently, "found footage" time travel movies.
The Central Problem With Steven Moffat's Doctor Who
This Saturday, we witness the end of Steven Moffat's third season as Doctor Who showrunner. And what an ambitious run thus far: a single story, starting with the crack and leading up to the Doctor's greatest mystery. You have to admire the boldness and cleverness of Moffat's plan. There's just one huge problem with all …
The eldest Weasley uses time travel to pick up chicks in About Time
There have been plenty of time travel movies that involve romance, but About Time — from Richard Curtis, the writer and director of Love Actually — takes a different view on it. Instead to using it to save a relationship, why not use it to make sure your new relationship stays awesome?
Don't use a time machine to change your past—make out with it instead
Cartoonist Jess Fink has already straddled the line between science fiction and sexy times with her webcomic Chester 5000 XYV (NSFW). Her latest book, We Can Fix It!: A Time Travel Memoir blends science fiction, a bit of young sexuality, and something else: autobiography. Fink uses a time machine to change her bad…
How Neil Gaiman did away with the "clanky clanky steampunk" Cybermen
This Saturday, renowned author Neil Gaiman returns to Doctor Who, with a brand new mission: make the Cyberman actually terrifying again. We talked to Gaiman, along with some other reporters, and he explained how he became the new Cyber-controller. Spoilers ahead...
We're mighty sick of Doctor Who stories where time travel is magic
Ever since Steven Moffat took over as head writer of Doctor Who, the show's been trying to be a "dark fairy tale." And the main sort of magic in Moffat's fairy-tale Who has been time-travel, with its arbitrary rules and get-out-of-jail-free cards. But after tonight's episode, I'm finally tired of "jargony-wargony" writing.
It's always a love story on Doctor Who these days
Tonight's "haunted house" episode of Doctor Who has a lot going for it, including some genuinely creepy moments and a companion rescuing the Doctor in a way we've never seen before. But it also exposes how the show's over-reliance on romance as a storytelling engine is running into the law of diminishing returns.…
2077 has never looked better: new VFX shots from Continuum season 2!
The time-travel cop show Continuum comes back to Canadian television on Sunday (and on June 7 on Syfy), for more paradoxically exciting action. And the show's producer, Simon Barry, sent us these exclusive (and gorgeous) VFX shots from season two.
Doctor Who's new companion is only lovable when the show isn't trying to …
It's part of the ritual of Doctor Who these days: First we have to be introduced to a new time-traveling companion (for the third time, in the case of Clara.) And then, in her second story, we have to get reminded just why she's so amazingly special and wonderful. That's this week's episode, which is kind of mixed bag. …
