What makes a good sci-fi movie? How much fiction can we mix with fact before the science part begins to fall apart? Using the movie Interstellar as a focus of attention, Joe and Rob discuss movie making, how this one genre attempts to blend storytelling with reality, and how it sometimes succeeds and sometimes does not.

What makes a good sci-fi movie? How much fiction can we mix with fact before the science part begins to fall apart? Using the movie Interstellar as a focus of attention, Joe and Rob discuss movie making, how this one genre attempts to blend storytelling with reality, and how it sometimes succeeds and sometimes does not.


Interstellar IMDb page


Interstellar Rotten Tomatoes page


Interstellar soundtrack on YouTube


The ending of Interstellar finally explained


Interstellar: ending explained


Chris Hadfield reviews space movies


Rob’s 1-page story about “plan B”


The Martian IMDB page


Stargate (movie) IMDB page


Primer IMDB page


Back to the Future IMDB page


The Time Machine IMDB page (1960) (2002)