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Excellent Adventures: The Time Travel Movie Podcast

Excellent Adventures: The Time Travel Movie Podcast

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 Three friends, Ellen, James and Paul, explore the hows and whens of time travel in the movies.Copyright 2023 All rights reserved. Art
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  • 050: A Fiftieth Episode Excellent Adventure

    050: A Fiftieth Episode Excellent Adventure
    Jan 16 2026

    Celebrating a whopping 50 episodes of Excellence. Ellen, James & Paul reflect on highlights of 2 years Podcasting together, lessons learned & what the Future still holds. Tune in & celebrate along with them!
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    35 mins
  • 049: Warlock (1989): An Excellent Adventure

    049: Warlock (1989): An Excellent Adventure
    Jan 2 2026

    This episode, Paul Hosts & invites Ellen & James to a mini quiz on the cinema of the Summer of 1989. With the picture painted, it’s a race against Time to stop a devil of a scheme to undo creation itself.

    Discussing the performances of Richard E Grant, Julian Sands & Lori Singer, there’s also much praise for Jerry Goldsmith’s score.

    Oh & Paul was really pleased to finally suggest something Time Travelly that Ellen hadn’t already seen!
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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • 048: A Christmas Carol (2009): Part Two of An Xmassy Adventure - WITH BONUS!

    048: A Christmas Carol (2009): Part Two of An Xmassy Adventure - WITH BONUS!
    Dec 19 2025
    Robert Zemeckis, co-writer and director of Back to the Future (1985), returns to the world of the time travel movie with this lively and very faithful adaptation of the Charles Dickens story. Produced as a performance capture movie, and released in 2009, the film has a visual dynamism and invention to it that makes it an especially effective version of the source material. Jim Carrey’s performance across several roles is fascinating and the sense of atmosphere and place, and of menace and of whimsy, are beautifully realised. Amidst the visual spectacle of the movie, the core ideas that Ebenezer Scrooge’s journey articulate are not overshadowed. For James, this adaptation of A Christmas Carol is one of the very best there has ever been. The movie also works as an excellent double-bill with Zemeckis’s other Christmas movie, The Polar Express (2004). BONUS: Stay tuned at the end for a short report from Alexandra Palace by Ellen & Paul of the stage adaptation by Mark Gatiss, showing to 4th January 2026.
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    58 mins
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