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What's going on in this set photo from Continuum, the Canadian show about a time-traveling cyborg hunting terrorists from the future? The show's creator Simon Barry sent it to us, with the note: "INT. SADTECH FACILITY." More »
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We keep getting more fascinating glimpses of Rian Johson's time-traveling gangster movie Looper. The latest clue: This strange poster, which only raises more questions. What's the time machine filled with? Books, journals, or something else? We don't know. More »
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Every scientific breakthrough has taken time to get going. Knowledge and technology needs to slowly accrue over time until a tipping point is reached. But in some cases, time just isn't a factor. Can we say that some things will never happen because they haven't happened yet? More »
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We take it for granted that the past is fixed. History always happened the way we remember it happening. But how do we know for sure that that's the case? If time travel is possible, time travelers could be zipping back and changing things around all the time. How would we even be able to tell if that was the case? More »
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With his moon-based Nazi flick Iron Sky in the can, director Timo Vuorensola is turning his filmmaking eye toward a different breed of science fiction Nazi: time-traveling Hitler. Vuorensola is getting ready to adapt the film adaptation of Jason's graphic novel I Killed Adolf Hitler. More »
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If paleontologists had access to time machines, they could solve innumerable mysteries about the terrible lizards who once walked the Earth. But if the past is anything like Michael Stearns' webcomic Dawn of Time, the age of dinosaurs may not be quite what they expected. Last I checked, few scientific theories included a bikini-clad barbarian riding a blue triceratops, while civilization marches on in the background. More »
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Back in 1997, Mia Farrow, Garrison Keillor, Michael Richards, Fabio, Adam West, and Don Rickles lent their voices to Redux Riding Hood, a wonderfully weird jazz-inflected short cartoon that toured the festival circuit. More »
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Folks who demand that we invent time travel know where their priorities lie. But where do you want time travel, sir? More »
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Some day, people from the distant future will travel back to our era and inform us that science has conclusively identified the best movies about time travel. Until then, though, we're forced to make our own judgements. Luckily, there are a few time-travel movies that have rocked our space/time continuums more than any others. More »
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Here's some VHS ephemera that gives the post-apocalyptic library education series Tomes & Talismans a run for its money. In 1988, actor Richard Kiley starred in Fast Forward Future, a three-part U.S. Department of Education-funded video series about a fortune-telling computer that warns children about the dangers of marijuana. From the synopsis: More »
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Fringe has been teasing us for ages with hints that Peter Bishop and Olivia Dunham are super important — and that their romance could have universe-shattering (or saving) consequences. Now, with last night's episode, we finally get to see the reason why these two lovebirds matter so doggone much. More »
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iam8bit is a Los Angeles gallery known for its cool, pop culture-themed shows. And the latest, a series of pieces on the theme "So You Created A Wormhole," already has us excited. Here you can see a video for one of the pieces, a time traveling baby stroller (you know, for all those superintelligent alien babies). Want to see more? Check out the iam8bit gallery, and if you're in the LA area you can see the show through the end of April. More »
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Kurt Kuenne — the director of the most gutting documentary I've ever seen Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father — is back with something entirely different, a black and white science fiction thriller titled Shuffle. More »
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There's a long and proud tradition of Doctor Who actors cashing in on the role in commercials — including Tom Baker's totally nutso Prime Computer ads. But now, the BBC are upset about David Tennant's new TiVo ad, which you can watch above. At least, that's what the ever-reliable British tabloid the Mirror is reporting. More »
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Doctor Who celebrates the adventures of a whimsical time traveler who saves the universe using a teaspoon and an open mind. But just because the Doctor has two hearts, it doesn't mean he's always the most caring person. Sometimes he's the oncoming storm, and sometimes, he's just kind of a dick. More »
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Here's the debut trailer for director Colin Trevorrow's Safety Not Guaranteed, which takes an internet meme from 2005 and spins it into a wistful indie comedy. Here was our Sundance correspondent's verdict on the flick, and I do wish they maintained the power mullet of the original illustration. Safety Not Guaranteed hits theaters June 8. More »
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We're pretty excited about Looper, which is shaping up to be the next big mind-job flick. So when we nabbed Looper director Rian Johnson and actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt at WonderCon, we had to pump the duo for all the time-traveling mob murders plot info possible. More »
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All along, Alcatraz has felt like two very different shows — you've got the horrifying, brutal and often creeptastic flashbacks to late-Eisenhower prison madness. And then you've got the cozy present-day police procedural, with lingering mysteries. Last night, the balance tipped sharply towards the creepy brutality — and the result was probably the most memorable episode of Alcatraz thus far. More »
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When time travelers find themselves in a distant future era, they're usually time travelers from our own time — or from the (Edit: later) Victorian or Edwardian eras, if we're feeling particularly steampunk. But Sylvan Migdal's webcomic The Adventures of Athena Wheatley, or, Warp & Weft sends a time-traveling scientist from 1841 Baltimore to Earth's strange distant future. And Athena has to worry about more than her new transhuman home; she's been followed by a rival inventor looking to take credit for her time machine. More »
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This is apparently the year of bizarre novels about time travel and people creating alternate timelines. And the wildest example yet of this subgenre may well be David Kowalski's The Company of the Dead — in which a time traveler goes back and saves the Titanic from sinking, with unpredictable results. More »
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A new batch of TV pilots have leaked, and it looks like the studio is relentlessly cribbing what's hot. What do we have to look forward to? Another Grimm and The Hunger Games-lite. If there aren't more than two supernatural cop shows on the air at the same time, Atlas will let the Earth tumble into the abyss. More »
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During Hollywood's golden era, it was common for a picture (they called 'em pictures back then) to be based on a popular stage play. It still happens, but rarely. The biggest and most visible movies are based on comic books these days (they called 'em graphic novels back then, they'll say of us) but maybe we're about to witness a paradigm shift. More »
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Looks like Syfy has added one more show to their rapidly depleting list of scripted series. Their latest purchase is Rewind, a show about a time-traveling anti-terrorist unit who tries to change the past to alter their terrible future. It's written by Justin Marks from Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li. More »
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In 1995, The Face magazine asked Stephen Hawking if he knew the formula for time travel. The magazine received this pithy fax back from the physicist. More »
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For the last several decades, boot-headed performance artist Vermin Supreme has been running for political office on the platforms of zombie awareness and mandatory dentifrice for all Americans. More »
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The Sound of My Voice rocked Sundance. It wowed South By Southwest. The story of a beautiful cult leader (Another Earth's Brit Marling) who claims to be a time traveler from the future, this film had everybody including it on their list of 2011's best indie movies. Fox Searchlight picked up the distribution rights. And then... nothing. More »
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What if someone from the future popped up in our timeline and started answering questions from people on internet message boards? That's exactly what John Titor did in the late 1990s. Claiming he was sent from the future on a mission to retrieve an antique computer, he talked with thousands of people online and told stories of futuristic life in 2036. Many of his tales warned of imminent disaster for the world, but he said he couldn't help. More »
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The most recent era of Doctor Who has been full of time warps. The show about an alien in a time machine has been delving into the weird ramifications of time travel more than ever before, including the Doctor's time-crossed relationship with River Song. More »
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You know that as soon as we invent a time machine, the first thing we're going to use it for is to destroy our enemies retroactively. (Well, maybe the second thing.) More »
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This weekend sees the first performances of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, a one-man show based on Charles Yu's acclaimed novel. Last night was the opening night, and according to the Columbus Dispatch it was a huge hit.

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There hasn't been a truly great time travel movie in quite some time, maybe since Primer. But we've got high hopes for Rian Johnson, the director of Brick, to create a cool new spin on the genre with his new film, Looper. More »
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Stephen King's new novel 11/22/63 involves a tunnel to the past, and a guy who tries to tamper with the Kennedy assassination. Talking to Wired, King explains something about the rules of time travel as he sees them: More »
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Pitching movie ideas in Hollywood can be hard, if you don't have an agent or any connections. Or you could just post your idea on Reddit.com. A posting on the popular social-networking site has been optioned as a movie by Warner Bros. More »
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Fringe has always been full of riddles and mysteries, but now our favorite weird-science show is one giant paradox. How did Peter change history, and what are the repercussions? We may find out more in tonight's episode — but for now, here's a brilliant explanation of what we know about time travel in the real world, and how Fringe plays with the space-time continuum. Stephen Cass, senior editor with the Technology Review, takes us inside Fringe's time paradoxes, in an excerpt from the new book Fringe Science: Parallel Universes, White Tulips, and Mad Scientists, edited by Kevin R. Grazier. More »
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Refined ladies, old-fashioned palm-dancing, picnics, gossip and time travel! Are you ready for Nora Ephron's Jane Austen movie? More »
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There's been a lot of hubbub about the possibility of FTL neutrinos. But would breaking the light barrier really be such a big deal? Hell, yes, it would! In this week's "Ask a Physicist," we'll find out why. More »
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Still confused by the twists and turns inside Shane Carruth's time traveling indie Primer? Never fear, someone has finally made the ultimate guide to Abe's wild time-traveling ride. Behold the world's most complicated time travel movie, solved. (Sort of.) More »
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In Louis Morneau's 1997 time travel road thriller, Retroactive, Frank Whaley plays Brian, a physicist studying time travel. And James Belushi portrays the character Frank, a computer chip thief...and sociopathic Elvis impersonator. More »
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So you think you know what's going on in the new dinosaur drama Terra Nova? Think again. Some casting calls have come down the pike for a couple of major characters who are going to shake up the prehistoric world. More »
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The last hope for the future of the human race depends on a handful of settlers traveling back into the distant past and building a brand new world. And from what we've seen so far in Steven Spielberg's Terra Nova, the human race is doomed. More »
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