Cinema Science

Spike Lee with cowrite and direct Time Traveler, an adaptation of a memoir by Ronald Mallett, a professor at the University of Connecticut who was one of the first African-Americans to earn a Ph.D. in theoretical physics. Mallett's book, Time Traveler: A Scientist's Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality, recounts his journey from poverty to wide academic acclaim — and his lifetime obsession with inventing a time machine. (Mallett was 10 years old when is father died, and his goal has been to go back in time to save him.)