At first glance Project Almanac isn’t the most conventional of stories. The movie, which opened this past weekend, is about a bunch of high school misfits that just happen to build a time machine out of an Xbox after running into some secret blueprints in their basement. But despite the outlandish premise it’s actually just the latest in a somewhat-proud cinematic tradition: suburban sci-fi.
First popularized in the 1980s, a Spielbergian decade filled with stories of kids escaping the doldrums of their cookie cutter lives (or their post-divorce families), suburban science fiction has mutated over the years but the core tenets have stayed remarkably consistent. Socially ostracized (but secretly brilliant) heroes? Check. Fantastic...
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