Columns
Some (dystopian) science fiction stories have infertility at their basis. What are some of the best in how they treat the phenomenon? And is the threat real?
Warm up your pipes and put on your dancing shoes, because this month’s staff inquiry…
Don’t blink. Seeing Doctor Who’s Weeping Angels petrifies them into statue form in a process referred to as quantum locking. How believable is this?
Midnight in Paris uses time travel to 1920’s Paris to deal with themes of nostalgia and the fallacy of Golden Age thinking.
In this part of the Fantasy Science column, we’re diving into the scientific underpinnings of Ant-Man’s power: resizing and going “subatomic”.
For this Staff Inquiry, the Film Inquiry team lists their favorite guilty pleasures; films that aren’t great (or even terrible) can be oh so enjoyable.
In our latest entry of Anarchic Cinema, we discuss the birth of Japanese V-Cinema and the contributions of Takashi Miike.
In this new Fantasy Science, we are revisiting the Fermi Paradox: if there are so many galaxies and planets out there, why haven’t we found evidence of alien life?
In this 7th part of the Fantasy Science series, we are going to chat about naturally occurring biological immortality, with the help of movies.
For this month’s Staff Inquiry, we’re examining films that were better than their original book counterparts, and we came up with some great examples.
In this segment of Time Crisis, we look back at the 2014 hit Edge of Tomorrow, examining why this is the best time loop film since Groundhog Day.
Film Inquiry’s resident physicist takes a look at teleportation in film and TV, explains how teleportation would work, theoretically, and whether one day we might be teleporting from A to B.
Why haven’t we found any signs of life out there in the universe, when statistically, there should be? This is Fermi’s Paradox, and in this new Fantasy Science column, we cover some of the explanations offered for this paradox in movies and TV.
In this all new Staff Inquiry, the Film Inquiry writers discuss their favorite coming-of-age films!
In this all new column in our Fantasy Science series, resident physicist Radha Pyari explains what scientific writing devices can be used to prevent Grandfather Paradoxes in time travel stories.