This Doc Brown guy sure does love clocks. However, we don't think the director threw all those in here just to indicate that their owner was fascinated by hand-crafted, antique timepieces. Hopefull...

Just as a director takes plenty of time agonizing over the first shot, they will also take great pains to make sure the entire first scene is ripe with meaning. So why do we spend so much time (the...

At one point, one of Biff's goons makes fun of Marty for wearing a "life preserver." It's basically a down vest, and many people would indeed wear them in the future… but it's not like everyone i...

There's clearly no actual science behind the number, since time travel doesn't exist… yet. So was the writers' choice of that particular speed totally arbitrary? Flip the number "8" on its side....

We can't talk about Back to the Future without mentioning the famous DeLorean time machine: the one that goes a little nutty whenever it hits 88 miles per hour. If we look at the movie as a whole,...