Podcast Episodes

How do you adapt an unadaptable sci-fi epic about the origins of religious belief, the moral responsibilities and failures of people in power, and intergalactic hallucinogens generated by giant worms?

It's the OG time travel story. A man invents a machine that allows him to witness humanity's past and future. Perhaps because time travel has been done to death ever since, adaptations of The Time Machine struggle to find something new to hook audiences. Does one of these movies get it right?

The Thing from Another World poses an important question. As special guest Grant puts it, "Is Science Bad?" Later adaptation The Thing poses an entirely different question: "Does Kurt Russell kick so much ass that he can kick an invulnerable shapeshifting alien's ass?"