Journey Through Sci-Fi: Science Fiction Film History
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A film history podcast that takes one big science-fiction idea and follows it through the decades. Hosted by James Payne and Matt Willcock, Journey Through Sci-Fi traces the evolution of science fiction on screen, from the silent era to the present day. Each episode pairs two films to ask what changed in between: how they were made, what they reveal about the world that produced them, and how science fiction keeps reinventing the same hopes, fears and questions for a new generation. Previous journeys have explored Artificial Intelligence, from Metropolis and The Terminator to Ghost in the Shell, The Matrix...
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- Get Out (2017) & Possessor (2020): Losing Control of Your Own Body
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- Hulk (2003) & Iron Man (2008): When Scientists Become the Experiment