Andrew Bowler and Asa Butterfield on the set of “Time Freak.” Andrew Bowler If He Could Turn Back Time by Jay S. Jacobs Andrew Bowler has spent most of the last decade thinking about time machines, and he’s not so sure they would be a good thing. The writer/director first started writing about them in about 2010, which led to the 2012 short “Time Freak,” which was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short. That recognition prompted him to make a full-length script bas

Cosplay at Wizard World On Top of the Wizard World by Jay S. Jacobs Such a feeling is coming over us. There is wonder in most everything we see. The reason is clear, it’s because Wizard World is back. Philly’s baby sister to San Diego and New York’s huge corporate Comic-Cons, Wizard World Philadelphia is a more intimate and easy to manage melding of the stars, the cars, the paraphernalia, the games (video and board), the cosplayers, the food and drink (all at stadium prices),

Cosplay at Wizard World Comic-Con Philadelphia. We’re Off to See the Wizard World! by Jay S. Jacobs Wizard World Comic-Con touched down in Philadelphia again as freaks, geeks, aliens, superheroes, gamers, mad slashers and B-actors all made their way to the Convention Center this past weekend. (June 1 to June 4.) It was where fantasy met commerce in an awe-inspiring, sense-pulsing dance, where fans and the famous rubbed elbows and shared their particular obsessions with like-m

Michael J Fox, Lea Thompson and Christopher Lloyd talk Back to the Future at Wizard World Philly 2016 – Photo by Debbie Wagner. Michael J. Fox, Lea Thompson, Christopher Lloyd and Bob Gale Gotta Get Back in Time to Back to the Future by Jay S. Jacobs As hard as it is to believe, the movie Back to the Future is now further in our collective rearview mirror than the Enchantment Under the Sea dance was to Marty McFly when he originally went back in time to save his parents’ rela

Cosplay at Wizard World Philly 2016 – Photo by Debbie Wagner. And We Say To Ourselves, What a Wizard World Wizard World Philadelphia Comic-Con – Philadelphia Convention Center – Philadelphia, PA – June 2-5, 2016 You know the old song that goes “Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right”?  Well what if those clowns are Pennywise the Dancing Clown and the jokers are… well, the Joker.  What does that say about there you are? Probably that you’re at Wizard World Philadelphia

Cosplay Comes Out to Play at Comic-con New York 2015 As Comic-con NY 2015 rolled into the Javits Center, as it has done every year (getting bigger annually), it was made up a lot of people, panels and of course, lots and lots of cosplay. As day rolled in on Thursday, the place seemed to begin to buzz as the 12 Monkeys panel set the tone, with a sold out crowd on the main stage. As the weekend rolled on, there was a lot of attention being made with Back to the Future, as the i