Join Dan and Brian as they revisit a forgotten time-travel romcom from a simpler time. Brian, an avowed Hugh Jackman fanboy, praises his charm and silky accent, while Dan ponders if Meg Ryan was the right casting for his counterpoint. They pick apart the film’s time loops and elevator paradoxes as Dan pitches a Kate…
Dan and Brian take a deep dive into the sci fi film 12 Monkeys and the pros/cons/paradoxes of various types of time travel. Join as they celebrate the film’s dedication to interlocking timelines, its striking post-apocalyptic visuals, and Brad Pitt’s bug-eyed insanity. Meanwhile, Dan makes the case for 12 Monkeys as the ultimate movie about…
“It’s gonna be the future soon I won’t always be this way When the things that make me weak and strange Get engineered away.” -Jonathan Coulton Welcome to the future. With Marty McFly’s official “arrival date” behind us, Back to the Future joins the likes of Lost in Space, The Terminator, and Looking Backward in depicting a…
That’s right, I’m back again, for a final FINAL chapter of “Ten Things Brian Likes.” I won’t stop beating this dead horse ’til it’s glue. In the first half of my honorable mentions, I acknowledged ten more topics about which I’m passionate. Now, to close out the series, I’m returning to the original ten “canonical” categories,…
“Where the hell are they?” “The appropriate question is, when the hell are they?” -Marty & Doc, Back to the Future If you’ve read many of my articles here on EarnThis, there’s a good chance you already knew that Brian Likes this one. Of the hundred entries in my Film Favorites Countdown, fully 10% include…
100 Film Favorites – #7: Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (Stephen Herek, 1989) “Hi. Welcome to the Future: San Dimas, California, 2688. It’s great here. The air is clean, the water’s clean, even the dirt is clean. Bowling averages are way up; mini-golf scores are way down. And we have more excellent water slides than…
100 Film Favorites – #22: Back to the Future Part II (Robert Zemeckis, 1989) “Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.” Those words, spoken by all-time great “mad scientist” character “Doc” Emmet Brown, end 1985’s Back to the Future on a cliff-hanger. After Marty McFly’s time-trip to 1955 in the first film proved a…