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Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with special guest Kieran Gillen, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released every Saturday at 6pm GMT, with the occasional bonus episode thrown in.

This time, Robert Zemeckis’ Back to the Future.

Marty McFly is just a regular teenager, until he finds himself thrown back in time to the mid-fifties. Accidentally disrupting the first meeting of his parents, Marty must reunite their teenage selves before he is erased from existence.

At time of recording, it was ranked the 44th best movie of all-time on the Internet Movie Database.

Show notes:

• Recorded 13th May 2018.
• Back to the Future at The Internet Movie Database.
• The IMDB 250 as it appeared at time of recording.
• Catherine Shoard at The Guardian reflects on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Back to the Future, September 2010.
• The writers at The Dissolve on the lasting appeal of Back to the Future, January 2015.
• Ryan Gibley at The Guardian interviews the cast and crew of Back to the Future, August 2014.
• Caseen Gaines at Vulture on the replacement of Eric Stoltz by Michael J. Fox, October 2015.
• Frank Price talks to Deadline Hollywood on the getting Back to the Future made and distributed, October 2015.
• Crispin Glover talks to The Guardian about his career and Back to the Future, February 2011.
• Crispin Glover explains to io9 why he declined to return for Back to the Future II, August 2013.
• E.S. Huffman at Uproxx on product placement in Back to the Future, October 2015.
• Peter Sciretta at /Film on how the time travel device in Back to the Future was almost a fridge, July 2009.
• Richard S. Chang at The New York Times on building an electric hybrid DeLorean, June 2008.
• Jason Torchinsky at Jalopnik on the sad story of the original DeLorean factory, April 2012.
• Paul Takahashi at The Houston Chronicle on the revival of the DeLorean, February 2018.
• Beatrice Verhoeven at The Wrap on the conspiracy theory that Back to the Future predicted 9/11, October 2015.
• Keith Phipps at The Dissolve on the approach to time travel within the Back to the Future franchise, January 2015.
• Patrick Metzger at The Patterning on the thirty-year cycle of nostalgia, February 2017.
• Forrest Wickman at Slate on the difficulty pinning down an exact nostalgia window, April 2012.
• Kurt Anderson at Vanity Fair on how modern fashion seems to have been frozen in the nineties, January 2012.
• Jason Farago at the BBC on the nineties as the decade that never ended, February 2015.
• Daniel Kreps at Rolling Stone on the worst things about Woodstock ’99, July 2014.
• Nick Greene at Mental Floss on the regional variations on M*A*S*H‘s laughter track, May 2014.
• Noel Murray at The Dissolve on how Back to the Future is itself a time machine, January 2015.
• Sean O’Neal at The A.V. Club on the oft-cited “plot hole” of the Marty and Doc Brown friendship, August 2011.
• Gene Newman at io9 argues that Doc Brown is the real villain of Back to the Future, October 2010.
• Skrillex goes Back to the Future, October 2012.
• Family Guy goes Black to the Future, April 2000.
• Tyler Hopkins produces a gritty trailer for 1.21 Gigwatts, a proposed prequel to Back to the Future, February 2016.
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