Today’s episode is a little different, as Katy Rusch and I took a detour during our recent discussion on John Carpenter’s The Thing to talk about special effects in a conversation that deserved its own episode. This time, we time travel across an entire 15-year period to talk about the transition that special effects went through as the CG era took over, what it means for the way we feel about movies that have become so reliant on it, and the 15-year period at the beginning of this century where movies can never be remastered.

Mike Goonan joins as we travel to 1993 with the real first Quentin Tarantino movie, ‘True Romance.’ We dig into how Tarantino defines the digital era, an entire generation that lives between two others, and all cinema to come after.

Tech and videogame strategist and singer/songwriter Jenna Hanlon joins as we travel to 1984 with the most famous AI warning of all time, James Cameron’s ‘The Terminator,’ and try to figure out whether its prediction of the coming AI war in 2029 feels right and what it means for the next decade.

Production designer and art director for film and TV Katy Rusch joins as we travel to 1982 and into the delicious paranoia of John Carpenter’s ‘The Thing.’

In our premiere episode, we're joined by production designer Claire Vitto as we travel to 1988 and dive deep into the hair, technology, and sexual politics with the film ‘Working Girl.’

E.J. Kalafarski is a technologist, transit advocate, former Presidential Innovation Fellow, actor, archaeology ambassador, and amateur time traveler. Each week, we’ll time travel to a different year using movies, technology, and pop culture to bridge the divide between generations and see what living in other times can tell us about surviving the technology, media, and politics of today.