Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Surely there is very real and very convincing data that the planet cannot survive the excesses of the human race: the proliferation of atomic devices, uncontrolled breeding habits, the rape of the environment, the...
Tagged: time travel
Somewhere in Time (1980)
Like something from out of the past itself, Somewhere in Time is an old-fashioned romance that came out at a time when such movies were no longer being made. Missing an audience at the time of...
Timeline (2003)
A popular Michael Crichton novel gets the big budget movie treatment yet again, and like many of the other adaptations of his work, the results are only so-so. Here, it’s fairly easy to see...
Back to the Future (1985)
Back to the Future is pure entertainment, and very successful at that. Wholly inspired and brilliantly executed, this brainchild of co-screenwriter Bob Gale and director Robert Zemeckis is chock-full of in-jokes and sight gags...
The Butterfly Effect (2004)
The Butterfly Effect derives its name from a short story by Ray Bradbury entitled, “A Sound of Thunder” (which is coincidentally being made into a movie the same year), whereby men travel back to prehistoric...
Donnie Darko (2001)
The experience of figuring out Donnie Darko is like buying a jigsaw puzzle at a garage sale and trying to put it together realizing that you may not have enough pieces to make a complete...
Second Time Around (2002)
Upon first sight of the opening credits, either an homage to or a rip-off of The Matrix, depending on your perspective, you’ll probably guess that Second Time Around is going to be a sci-fi flick dealing...
Kate and Leopold (2001)
Meg Ryan, in a romantic-comedy, is about as much of a sure thing as you can get in Hollywood. Although she has done her share of dramatic work, and excellent performances she had in...
Just Visiting (2001)
JUST VISITING is one of those remakes that will make you say “Why did they bother?” After all, this is an American remake of a French film that only came out eight years before,...
Frequency (2000)
FREQUENCY is a sleeper thriller, and one of the better surprises of 2000 that only a small amount of people went to see. This one has the Aurora Borealis phenomenon occurring in the same...