Excellent Adventures: The Time Travel Movie Podcast

Episodes

6 days ago

022: Timecop (1994) - A Mini Excellent Adventure with Guest James Swallow

6 days ago

Paul travels back to the height of Jean Claude van Damme's career to chat with special guest, author James Swallow.
James is a British author. A BAFTA nominee and a New York Times, Sunday Times and Amazon #1 best-seller, he is the author of several original books and tie-in novels, as well as short fiction, numerous audio dramas and video games.
From the 18th onwards through December, he’s releasing MOSCOW RULES, a free 10-part serial novella from his Marc Dane thriller series, available first through his Reader’s Club mailing list https://mailchi.mp/2d6bae5d4c9d/jswallowreadersclubsignup).
His Space: 1999 and UFO novellas are out now (https://shop.gerryanderson.com/products/space-1999-the-armageddon-engine-signed-limited-edition-hardcover-novel and https://shop.gerryanderson.com/products/ufo-shadow-play-hardcover-novel) and he’s got a new Star Trek: Strange New Worlds novel up for pre-order, releasing in April (https://mybook.to/stsnwttn).

Friday Nov 01, 2024

021: Wild Strawberries (1957): An Excellent Adventure

Friday Nov 01, 2024

The trio explore the meaning & mysteries of Ingmar Bergman's classic old man journey. For all the bittersweet & tragedy of the piece, the chat manages to find the happy & the humorous in what often features upon lists of Greatest Films of All Time.

Friday Oct 18, 2024

020: Back to the Future the Musical: A Mini Excellent Adventure

Friday Oct 18, 2024

Recorded in November 2022, Ellen & Paul enthuse over the Laurence Olivier Award-winning show at London's Adelphi Theatre.

Friday Oct 04, 2024

019: Back to the Future (1985): An Excellent Adventure

Friday Oct 04, 2024

Of course the gang would get here eventually, but there's just so much to talk about. This is therefore Part One of Ellen, James & Paul discussing the first part of the trilogy. Paul Hosts - with a susprise in format for the others...

Friday Sep 20, 2024

018: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986): A Mini Excellent Adventure with Guest Karen McCreedy

Friday Sep 20, 2024

Paul is joined by Karen McCreedy, author of the Unreachable Skies sci-fi trilogy. Both are keen Star Trek fans - which may just show... For Ellen's benefit: it's the one about whales!

Friday Sep 06, 2024

017: Celine & Julie Go Boating (1974): An Excellent Adventure

Friday Sep 06, 2024

The trio of time travel chatters put their minds to making some start & end to Jacques Rivette's amazing tale set in the lesser know streets of Paris of the early 70s. Allusions to Alice's wonderland, boiled sweets, cats & murder all swirl into something any fan of David Lynch ought to find great affinity with.

Friday Aug 16, 2024

016: Time Addicts (2023) A Mini Excellent Adventure

Friday Aug 16, 2024

Ellen & Paul throw around some immediate thoughts, immediately following a joint viewing. It's a mini excellent adventure, but an enthusiastic one: both having been pleasantly surprised by everything about this Australian production.

Friday Aug 02, 2024

015: Timescape (1992): An Excellent Adventure

Friday Aug 02, 2024

Back to the 1990s - where Paul loves to lurk for Time Travel that splurged onto the scene in the wake of Back to the Future. This stars Jeff Daniels with a young Ariana Richards (Jurassic Park) as his daughter - hosts to a strange busload of tourists...
Released on video under the name "Grand Tour: Disaster in Time" - it packs in some great Time Travel twists & a super central couple (!) of performances by Daniels.

Spend time with us!

Join Hosts Ellen Cheshire, James Clarke and Paul Tonks, as they step into the fascinating world of time travel in the movies with Excellent Adventures: The Time Travel Movie Podcast. There'll be in-depth analysis of feature films, alongside shorter mini-adventures exploring all things timey-wimey.

Each main episode will feature a discussion on the film's plot, production and historical contexts, its twists, paradoxes, and scientific concepts. The bite-sized mini-adventures will be a mix of interviews, reviews, essays where we can venture into the wider world of time related storytelling.

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Wanna get involved? Email ellenexcellentadventures@gmail.com

Get in touch if you'd like to be a guest on one of our mini adventures, or would like us to review your time travel related movie, TV show, book etc. Also we'd love to join you on your podcasts!

Ellen Cheshire

Ellen Cheshire is a film writer and lecturer. Her books include those on Jane Campion, Ang Lee, Audrey Hepburn, the Coen Brothers, Sussex on Screen and Bio-Pics, plus chapters in books on James Bond, Charlie Chaplin, Fantasy Films, War Movies, Silent Film, Women Filmmakers and the A Level Film Text Book. She is a regular contributor to BFI booklets for their Blu-Rays. She has taught at the Universities of Chichester and Sussex, and Brighton Film School. She has a BA Film and English and MA Gothic Studies.

www.ellencheshire.com

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James Clarke

James Clarke is a writer and lecturer. He has taught screenwriting at the London Film School and also works as a Script Reader for the British Film Institute. James has given talks about screenwriting for the BFI Film Academy for young people and has directed a community film with young people for the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.

James’s film books include: Being Bardot, Bond: Photographed by Terry O’Neill, The Year of the Geek and The Films of Pixar Animation Studio. James specialises in writing about animation and visual effects films for the magazines Imagine FX and 3D World and his writing has also been published in Empire magazine and at Little White Lies online amongst other outlets.

James is currently developing a feature film screenplay project with a co-writer and, in the short-film form, he has written and produced a number of short film projects and was a BAFTA long listed producer in the Best Short Film category (an awfully long time ago).

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Paul Tonks

Paul Tonks has written about film & in particular – film music for many years. He has interviewed a great many composers & been published within numerous magazines, websites, CD booklets & for record labels. It was in writing the Pocket Essential Series book on ‘Film Music’ that Paul met fellow Excellent Adventurer Ellen Cheshire. Their mutual love of Time Travel in the movies was soon established. Paul may be found regularly reviewing & championing the sound of film music on letterboxd.

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