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Maddie, Sify here. Happy Friday, everybody. I want you to grab some popcorn and

Asoda or your carbonated beverage of choice because you're going to want them

handy after this episode. Today we're going to talk about two of my favorite

things, movies and science fiction. And to help out, I'm joined by astrophysicist

Adam Frank. Hey, Adam, how you doing? Doing good. Happy to be here. Adam, tell us your

favorite romantic comedy right now. Oh, no, you put me on the spot. Come on, Adam.

Something from the 80s with Meg Ryan. I don't know. All right, solid. Okay, so Adam's

no expert on romcoms, but he does know a thing or two about Sify. He was a

science advisor for Marvel on the movie Doctor Strange, which is so cool. So I asked

him to highlight some movies from the last decade. One's that tell us something

interesting about science fiction or science and storytelling. The thing we can

ask ourselves about is when does it matter for science to be done accurately in

a science fiction film? So we sort of chose a bunch of films where that have

different representations of science and sometimes getting the science right

mattered and sometimes it didn't matter at all. I thought that would be an

interesting way to frame our conversation about science fiction in the last decade.

Today on the show, Sify films of the decade with scientists Adam Frank. Yes,

there will be spoilers, but y'all have had a lot of time to watch these movies.

We've got astrophysicist Adam Frank with us. Okay, before we talk about Sify

movies, I want to talk to you about your work as a science advisor on Marvel's Doctor Strange,

which is very cool. Like that's a cool thing to do. It was a cool thing to do. If you haven't seen

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