Paradox: The Time Travel Podcast

Paradox: The Time Travel Podcast

Authors Nick Hurwitch & Phil Hornshaw dive through the wormhole of your favorite time travel movies, TV shows and stories to attempt to make sense of timelines, time machines and paradoxes.

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April 27, 2019 48 mins
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 …

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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 …

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April 27, 2019 107 mins
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 …

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April 27, 2019 118 mins
Finally we’ve come to the adaptation of a tragic 1950s Robert Heinlein short story about really cruel timeloops that is “Predestination.” Yup, it’s been a long time. We’re pretty sure some old man stole our car and messed around with the radio presets and other buttons, and long story short, it’s 2018 and our Creedence …

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April 27, 2019 113 mins
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 …

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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 …

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April 27, 2019 114 mins
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 …

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December 10, 2016 117 mins
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 movie that actually does pretty well with time travel. It’s also the movie that originally inspired “So You Created a …

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November 2, 2016 78 mins
Finally, we’ve come to the smoking hot British-comedy-about-a-time-travel-bathroom of time travel, “FAQ About Time Travel.” By popular demand, we’re diving into the 2009 comedy that mixes a bit of a “Shawn of the Dead” vibe with some time travel tropes, some “Back to the Future” gags, and some generally nerdy discussions of why Hollywood puts …

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October 8, 2016 126 mins
  Finally, we’ve come to the smoking hot six-foot Halloween bunny hallucination from the future of time travel, “Donnie Darko.” Way back from 2001 comes a broody teenage angst story that’s also about time travel, God, sacrifice and parallel universes. “Donnie Darko” is a weird case because it has an original cut of the movie, …

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September 28, 2016 106 mins
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 …

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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’re checking out a (much more compact) …

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August 29, 2016 83 mins
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 …

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August 29, 2016 62 mins
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 it’s often …

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Finally, we’ve come to smoking hot viral-end-of-the-world-and-animals-inherit-the-Earth of Time Travel: “12 Monkeys.” And “La Jetée,” the short film it’s based on, as well. Look, this is our longest episode, and one of us is neck-deep in the hundreds of thousands of people-strong insanity that is Comic-Con. So go ahead and listen, because we’re feeling a …

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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 …

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June 12, 2016 71 mins
Finally, we’ve come to the smoking hot “1979 San Francisco riff on a classic time travel story — but with Jack the Ripper also because that’s awesome” of time travel: Time After Time. Director Nicholas Meyer dives into H.G. Wells’ novel The Time Machine, mixes in the story of an 1800s serial killer, takes the whole thing to San …

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Super-de-duper SPOILER WARNING! Even more than usual! Yup, it seems 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 …

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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 …

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May 11, 2016 97 mins
Finally, we’ve come to the smoking hot “Jean-Claude Van Damme one-liner-laden ass-kicking that melts you into goo” of time travel: Timecop. You don’t need rules in Timecop, unless those rules are “Never cross JCVD,” “Never time travel for personal gain,” and “Never let the same matter occupy the same space at the same time.” We …

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