THIS MONTH
TIME-TWISTERS
LEGENDARY AUTHOR AND CRITIC KIM NEWMAN BRINGS US HIS UNIQUE TAKES ON CULT CINEMA
MATTHEW BRAZIER
CONCEPTS LIKE THE multiverse, alternatetimeline doppelgängers and fracturing reality while trying to rewrite the past have become more familiar since that scene in Back To The Future: Part II where Doc gets out a blackboard and chalk and gives a five-minute lecture (with diagrams) on how time-travel screws you up. 1989 audiences still complained they hadn’t a clue what was going on. That Oscar-winners like Everything Everywhere All At Once and comicbook franchise features like Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse (and, er, The Flash) can play free and easy with multiple realities indicates general viewers have become more open to the kinds of time-tinkering which makes your head hurt.