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

Project Almanac PROJECT ALMANAC (2015) Starring Jonny Weston, Sofia Black-D’Elia, Virginia Gardner, Allen Evangelista, Amy Landecker, Sam Lerner, Gary Weeks, Gary Grubbs, Macsen Lintz, Michelle DeFraites, Curry Stone, Jamila Thompson, Katie Garfield, Hillary Harley, Courtney Bowers and Imagine Dragons. Screenplay by Andrew Deutschman and Jason Pagan. Directed by Dean Israelite. Distributed by Paramount Pictures.  106 minutes.  Rated PG-13. I am often on the record of saying t

About Time ABOUT TIME (2013) Starring Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams, Bill Nighy, Lydia Wilson, Lindsay Duncan, Tom Hollander, Will Merrick, Richard Cordery, Joshua McGuire, Margot Robbie, Tom Hughes, Clemmie Dugdale, Harry Hadden-Paton. Vanessa Kirby, Mark Healy, Mitchell Mullen and Lisa Eichhorn. Screenplay by Richard Curtis. Directed by Richard Curtis. Distributed by Universal Pictures. 123 minutes. Rated R. About Time is literally about time: time travel, to be exact. B

The Lake House THE LAKE HOUSE (2006) Starring Sandra Bullock, Keanu Reeves, Christopher Plummer, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Willeke van Ammelrooy, Dylan Walsh, Lynn Collins, Mike Bacarella, Kevin Brennan, Frank Caeti, Scott Elias, Lori Ann Gerdisch, Michael Andrew Gorman and Jennifer Kern. Screenplay by David Auburn. Directed by Alejandro Agresti. Distributed by Warner Brothers Pictures. 105 minutes. Rated PG. I’m already on the record in this review section that

Sir Ben Kingsley in “Oliver Twist.” SIR BEN KINGSLEY TRAVELS THROUGH TIME AS TWO VERY DIFFERENT CHARACTERS by Brad Balfour While veteran actor Sir Ben Kingsley remains one of our greatest working thespians–having accrued numerous Academy nominations and won an Oscar for Gandhi – he rarely has two films with such different roles being released virtually at the same time. In Peter Hyams’ A Sound of Thunder he plays a man who operates a dinosaur-hunting time travel service; in R

Kate & Leopold KATE AND LEOPOLD (2002) Starring Meg Ryan, Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Breckin Meyer, Natasha Lyonne, Bradley Whitford, Philip Bosco, Paxton Whitehead, Spalding Gray, Josh Stamberg, Matthew Sussman and Charlotte Ayanna. Screenplay by James Mangold and Steven Rogers. Directed by James Mangold. Distributed by Miramax Pictures. 118 minutes.  Rated PG-13. Here is a hint for movie producers. It is almost impossible to make an uninteresting time travel film. No mat