It’s a standard conversation starter at dinner parties everywhere: “What would you do if you had a time machine?” With “kill baby Hitler” being a frequently offered response. Overused as it is, the scenario still raises some moral, ethical, and practical issues. But how, exactly, did this particular baby-killing question become such a time-travel cliche? Vox investigates the strange subject with a new video from Phil Edwards and Christopher Haurbursin. To understand the whole “killing baby Hitler” conundrum, Edwards talks with writer and science historian James Gleick, author of 2016’s Time Travel: A History. It turns out that time travel itself is relatively young as narrative devices go. Shakespeare wasn’t having his characters dart about in history back in the 1500s, for instance. It wasn’t really until H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine was published in 1895 that time travel became a staple of speculative fiction ...
- 10/17/2016
- by Joe Blevins
- avclub.com
Here are a bunch of little bites to satisfy your hunger for movie culture: Mashup of the Day: It's such a simple gif, but it's such a perfect gif. Here's Deadpool's reaction to Spider-Man's appearance in the new Captain America: Civil War trailer: Nailed it! #spiderman #CaptainAmericaCivilWar #deadpool pic.twitter.com/fmGLdEFEv6 — Phil Edwards (@Live_for_Films) March 10, 2016 Movie Science of the Day: With Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice arriving very soon, it's time to learn from Kyle Hill how the Man of Steel's heat vision works: Vintage Image of the Day: Jon Hamm, who turns 45 today, in his first movie appearance in Space Cowboys. He's on the right playing the part of "Young Pilot...
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- 3/11/2016
- by Christopher Campbell
- Movies.com
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