Big Screen Science

Big Screen Science is a monthly movie night hosted with my colleague Jeff Silverman at the Alamo Drafthouse in San Francisco. A packed house of 300+ listen as we delve into the science of some of our favorite movies and take their ideas to new heights.

Screened Films

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey

  • Alien

  • Apollo 11

  • Apollo 13

  • Armageddon

  • Avengers: Endgame

  • Back to the Future

  • Black Panther

  • Blade Runner

  • Children of Men

  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind

  • Contact

  • Die Hard

  • Fast Five

  • First Contact

  • Ford v. Ferrari

  • Galaxy Quest

  • Ghostbusters

  • Gravity

  • Gremlins

  • Groundhog Day

  • Home Alone

  • Jurassic Park

  • Memento

  • National Treasure

  • Ocean's Eleven

  • Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

  • Raiders of the Lost Ark

  • Rocky IV

  • Star Trek (2009)

  • Strange Brew

  • Terminator 2

  • The Fifth Element

  • The Last Starfigher

  • The Martian

  • The Rock

  • Wall-E

  • Wrath of Khan

  • Young Frankenstein

Big Screen Science Online

Galaxy Quest

Young Frankenstein

The Rock

Close Encounters of the Third Kind