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.TIME TRAVEL-RELATED WEBSITES:

• Time Travel Movie-related websites -
  • Time Dwellers- Site of a time travel-related movie that is in production
  • Sites dedicated to the beautiful 1980 time-travel film, Somewhere In Time, starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour:
  • Memoirs of Elise - This site features a sequel/prequel to Somewhere In Time, written by David L. Gurnee . The story is an extrapolation of what happened to Elise McKenna after Richard Collier disappeared from her life. The story does not change the original film at all, and is perfectly circular with Somewhere in Time. Universal Studios is currently considering this novella for a film or a made-for-tv movie. Word is that Universal is to make a sequel to this incredible film!
  • "A Sound of Thunder" Ray Bradbury's Classic butterfly-stomping/Dinosaur hunting time travel short story, is being made into a film! (note: Prague set was evacuated due to flooding, Aug. 14, 2002) Click here for more information.
  • Jo Addie's Somewhere In Time site features links to fan sites, as well as articles about her involvement with the filming of S.I.T., sounds and pictures from the film, and much more, including a film-related trivia game and some fascinating and remarkable parallels between the film and James Cameron's Titanic!
  • Time Ship - Three proposals for Time Travel movies, with great links!
  • Back to the Future Page - A must-see for fans of the trilogy.
• Time Travel Subject listing from Yahoo!
• About.com's Time Travel Site - Great links throughout the Web.
• Time Travel in Physics:
  • Website of Phillip Ellis Jackson - Author whose books deal with Time Travel themes.
  • Time Travel Paradoxes examined - This 1997 web site deals with paradoxes in Time Travel, and reviews way they can be avoided while staying true to physics.
  • TimeTravel Research Center - Led by Dr. David Anderson, is a privately-owned research laboratory dedicated to the advancement of the science, technology, and research which will someday make it possible for man to travel through time.  The site includes a great primer on Time.
  • Spacetime - A Caltech website graphically depicting the very latest theories of time travel and spacetime. An excellent resource with graphic animations. This is part of a site "Time Travel In Flatland", based upon the novel "Flatland" by Edwin Abbott.
  • NOVA interview with the late Carl Sagan on time travel.
  • Michio Kaku FAQ - A "FAQ" on hyperspace, wormholes, and time machines by Michio Kaku, noted physicist.
  • Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Time Travel - A look at Quantum Physics and why time travel is possible.
  • In the News: Scientists Break The Speed of Light! 
  • Time Travel: Theory and Practice - Honors Seminar led by David DeGraff, Physics and Astronomy professor, Alfred University
  • So, You Think Time Travel Is Imposssible, Eh? - A look at the physics of Time Travel.
  • Time Travel: Fact or Fiction?
  • A Page exploring Time Travel
  • "Time Travel" or, "The Possibility of Global Causality Violation"- A paper examining the Paradox Problem in time travel.
  • A Guide to the Realm of Temporal Physics- A page designed to educate Dr. Who Role Playing Game enthusiasts on the Physics of time travel.
• Fun Time Travel Sites:
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  Synchronity Time Police (UK Division) - A serious attempt (I think) at devising an "oath" for time travelers, to keep it out of the "wrong hands." It would obviously be necessary to have one, were time travel ever a reality, to prevent time paradoxes. Cheers to Steve Jones for an imaginative and well-done web site!
  • Want to travel in time? Visit Andy's "Anachronia Time Travel Agency"! A very good site.
  • Instructions For Meeting TimeTravelers
  • Timecube.com - The "timecube" website is the best argument against drugs I have ever seen. I dare you to read it all the way through, without getting a headache!
• General, Unclassified Time Travel Sites:
  • Memories from the Future - The off off Broadway magic show about Time Travel - featuring Master Magician, Igor. Now playing at the 13th Street Theatre in New York City. (Yes, I know it's an ad, but it sounds kind of interesting!)
  • Einstein's Dreams - An interactive site based upon the Alan Lightman book of the same name, which I highly recommend (needs Shockwave plug-in, which is free). "A hybrid of essay, prose poem, imaginary biography, and short story collection, Einstein's Dreams elegantly defies generic classification and straddles the gap between realism and fantasy, science, philosophy, and literature. But most of all, it is about human experience." - from the website.
  • Andy's Anarchonisms - Time Travel and Alternate History website.
  • The Time Travel Page of James Deem - Exploring many facets of Time Travel, including TT as a "retrocognitive experience".
  • TIMELINKS - Aetherco's  online content guide to time travel on the web.
  • How to travel in Time - An Essay by Bill Adler, Jr., author of "Time Machines: The Greatest Time Travel Stories Ever Written.
  • Alien Time Treasure - Serial Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Magic, Mystery, Horror, and Young Adult novels.  Read online or download.  Featured novels are "A Circle of Two" and "Quarantined".
  • TimeFlights.com - A site by two people claim to have travelled in time. Features info about their book "Sparks from the Fire of Time", as well as about channeling, past life regression and hypnosis.
  • Check out Chuck Buckley's Time Travel Site - Time Travel, a Temporal Brain Drain.
  • The mad bassist - Erich Zann- on Time Travel - An excellent essay on Time Travel, giving plausible explanations for paradoxes and taking time travel films to task for inaccuracies.
  • Steve Preston's Time Travel Site
  • Brian Bosak's Time Travel Page
  • Time Travel - It's only a matter of time  - A somewhat more whimsical look at time travel.
  • Time travel for beginners - An interesting group of articles on Time Travel.
  • StrangeMagazine's Time Travel Pages- Good articles in this online magazine about time travel in general, including interviews, a story of a documented time travel incident, and a listing of time travel books and movies.
  • Practical Time Travel - An interview Strange Magazine with Steven Gibbs, who  claimed to have traveled to the future and back..
  • An FTP listing of Sci-fi authors and their works, chronologically arranged.
  • Also visit the alt.sci.time-travel newsgroup.

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SOME TIME TRAVEL BOOKS (Fiction):

• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) - Mark Twain
• The Time Machine (1895)- H.G. Wells (A link to this text online)
• An Experiment With Time - (1927) - J.W. Dunne
• Sidewise In Time (1931) - Murray Leinster
• Lest Darkness Fall (1949) - L. Sprague DeCamp
• The Wheels of If (1949) - L. Sprague DeCamp
• Bring the Jubilee (1953/1987) - Ward Moore
• The End of Eternity (1955) - Isaac Asimov
• The Crossroads of Time (1956) - Andre Norton
• The Door Into Summer (1956) - Robert Heinlein
• The Lincoln Hunter (1958) - Wilson Tucker
• Time Out of Joint (1959) - Philip K. Dick
• Twice Upon a Time (1959) - Charles L. Fontenay
• Dr. Futurity (1960) - Philip K. Dick
• A Wrinkle In Time (1962) - Madeline L'Engle
• Man In His Time (1965) - Brian Aldiss
• Tunnel Through Time (1966) - Lester Del Ray
• The Time-Hoppers (1967) Robert Silverberg
• Up The Line (1969) Robert Silverberg
• Time and Again (1970)- Jack Finney
• Dinosaur Beach (1971) - Keith Laumer
• There Will Be Time (1972)- Poul Anderson
• Time's Last Gift - (1972) - Philip Jose Farmer
• The Return of the Time Machine (1972) - Egon Friedell
• Time Enough for Love (1973) - Robert Heinlein
• Bid Time Return (1975) - Richard Matheson
• The Time of Achamoth (1977) - M.K. Joseph
• The Mirror (1978) - Marlys Millhiser
• Time After Time (1979) - Karl Alexander 
• Morlock Night (1979) - K.W.Jeter
• Journey to Yesterday (1979) - June Lund Shiplett
• The Man Who Folded Himself  (1980) - David Gerrold
• The Number of the Beast (1980) - Robert Heinlein
• Thrice Upon A Time (1980) - James P. Hogan
• Remember the Alamo! (1980) Kevin Randle and Robert Cornett
• The Guardians of Time (1981) - Poul Anderson
• Time Machine II (1981) - George Pal and Joe Morhaim
• Rebel in Time (1983) - Harry Harrison
• Anubis Gates (1983) - Tim Powers
• Return to Yesterday (1983) - June Lund Shiplett
• The Ivanhoe Gambit (1984) - Simon Hawke (Time Wars Series)
• The Pimpernel Plot (1984) - Simon Hawke (Time Wars Series)
• The Threshold (1984) - Marlys Millhiser
• The Timekeeper Conspiracy (1984) - Simon Hawke (Time Wars Series)
• Elleander Morning (1984) - Jerry Yulsman
• Time After Time (1985) Allen Appel
• The Nautilus Sanction (1985) - Simon Hawke (Time Wars Series)
• The Zenda Vendetta (1985) - Simon Hawke (Time Wars Series)
• The Cross-Time Engineer (1986) - Leo Frankowski
• The Khyber Connection (1986) - Simon Hawke (Time Wars Series)
• Time Out of Mind (1986) - John R. Maxim
• Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987) - Douglas Adams
• The Argonaut Affair (1987) - Simon Hawke (Time Wars Series)
• The Highly Flavoured Ladies (1987) - Patricia Andagi
• Three By Finney (1987) - Jack Finney
• To Sail Beyond Sunset (1987) - Robert Heinlein
• Project Pendulum (1987) - Robert Silverberg
• Kindred (1988) - Octavia Butler
• Replay (1988) - Ken Grimwood
• The Dracula Caper (1988) - Simon Hawke (Time Wars Series)
• Lightning (1988) - Dean Koontz
• Remember Gettysburg! (1988) -  Kevin Randle and Robert Cornett
• The Boat of a Million Years (1989) - Poul Anderson
• The High-Tech Knight (1989) - Leo Frankowski
• The Radiant Warrior (1989) - Leo Frankowski
• The Flying Warlord (1989) - Leo Frankowski
• Lord Conrad's Lady (1989) - Leo Frankowski
• The Lilliput Legion (1989) - Simon Hawke (Time Wars Series)
• The Shield of Time (1990) - Poul Anderson
• If I Never Get Back (1990) - Darryl Brock
• Knight in Shining Armor (1990) - Jude Deveraux
• The Hellfire Rebellion (1990) - Simon Hawke (Time Wars Series)
• The Cleopatra Crisis (1990) - Simon Hawke (Time Wars Series)
• Remember the Little Bighorn! (1990) Kevin Randle and Robert Cornett
• The Six-Gun Solution (1991) - Simon Hawke (Time Wars Series)
• The Time Patrol (1991) - Poul Anderson
• Lord Kelvin's Machine (1992) - James P. Blaylock
• Dragonfly in Amber (1992) - Diana Gabaldon (part 2 of a series)
• Outlander (1992) - Diana Gabaldon (part 1 of a series)
• The Dreamstone (1992) - Liane Jones
• Voyager (1993) - Diana Gabaldon (part 3 of a series)
• Thebes of the Hundred Gates (1993) - Robert Silverberg
• Guns of the South (1993) Harry Turtledove 
• The Doomsday Book (1993) - Connie Willis
• Dead Morn (1994) - Piers Anthony
• Remembrance (1994) - Jude Deveraux
• Dinosaur Nexus (1994) - Lee Grimes
• Mariana (1994) -  Susanna Kearsley
• Time Scout (1995) Robert Asprin and Linda Evans 
• The Time Ships (1995) - Stephen Baxter
• Arc Riders (1995) - David Drake and Janet Morris
• Time After Time (1995)- Jack Finney
• Looking Through Glass (1995) - Mukul Kesavan
• Time Trekkers Visit the Romans (1995) - Antony Mason
• Time Trekkers Visit the Stone Age (1995) - Antony Mason
• Pirates (1995) - Linda Lael Miller
• Time Trekkers Visit the Dinosaurs (1995) - Kate Needham
• Arc Riders: The Fourth Rome (1996) - David Drake and Janet Morris
• To Bring the Light (1996) - David Drake
• House on the Strand (1996) - Daphne Du Maurier
• The Law of Love (1996) - Laura Esquivel
• Time Station London (1996) - David Evans
• Time Station Paris (1996) - David Evans
• The Christmas Mystery (1996) -  Jostein Gaarder
• The Bones of Time (1996) - Katheen Ann Goonan
• Knights (1996) - Linda Lael Miller
• Time Machines: The Greatest Time Travel Stories Ever Written (1997) - Bill Adler (editor)
• Ceasar's Bicycle (1997) - John Barnes (Timeline Wars Series)
• Patton's Spaceship (1997) -John Barnes (Timeline Wars Series)
• Washington's Dirigible (1997) - John Barnes (Timeline Wars Series)
• Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1997) - Orson Scott Card
• Einstein's Bridge (1997) - John Cramer
• Timeshare (1997) - Joshua Dann
• Time on My Hands (1997) - Peter Delacorte 
• Remembrance (1997) - Jude Deveraux
• The Mistress of Spices (1997) - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
• Time Weaver (1997) - Kate Donovan
• Days of Cain (1997) - J.R.Dunn
• Time Station Berlin (1997) - David Evans
• Drums of Autumn (1997) - Diana Gabaldon (part 4 in a series)
• Corrupting Dr. Nice (1997) - Kessel, John
• The Dechronization of Sam Magruder (1997) - George G. Simpson
• Timequake (1997) - Kurt Vonnegut
• Oracle (1997) - Ian Watson
• To Say Nothing of the Dog (1997) - Connie Willis
• Timeshare: Second Time Around (1998) - Joshua Dann
• In the Garden of Iden, a Novel of the Company (1998) - Kage Baker
• The Fall (1998) - Simon Clark
• On the Edge of Darkness (1998) - Barbara Erskine
• About Time (1998) - Jack Finney
• Conrad's Quest for Rubber (1998) - Leo Frankowski
• Survivor (1998) - Robert Steele Gray
• Seize the Night (1998) - Dean Koontz
• Island in the Sea of Time (1998) - S.M. Stirling (part 1 of a series)
• Against the Tide of Years (1999) - S.M. Stirling (part 2 of a series)
• Timeline (1999) - Michael Crichton
• Timeshare: A Time for War (1999) - Joshua Dann
• Target: Grant, 1862 - Charles Fontenay
• Larry Niven (1999) - Larry Niven
• Timeless Wish (1999) Barbara Sheridan
• Household Gods (1999) - Judith Tarr and Harry Turtledove
• Out of Time (2000) - Lynn Abbey
• Mendoza of Hollywood, a Novel of the Company (2000) - Kage Baker
• Sky Coyote, a Novel of the Company (2000) - Kage Baker
• Enchantment (2000) - Orson Scott Card
• Ripping Time (2000) - Linda Evans and Robert Aspirin
• 1632 (2000) - Eric Flint
• Transgression (2000) - Randall Ingermanson
• Father Ernetti's Chronovisor: The Creation and Disappearance of the World's First Time Machine (2000) - Peter Krassa
• On the Oceans of Eternity (2000) - S.M. Stirling (part 3 of a series)
• The Boozygods (2000) - Mark Von Zierenberg
• A Portrait in Time (2001) - Barbara Donlon Bradley
• A Separate Season (2001) - Paul D. Ellner
• What Lies Behind You (2001) - Robert Furlani
• Who's Got the Right Time? (2001) - Russ Barkhimer
• Timeshift (2001) - Phillip Ellis Jackson
• The Time Traveller (2001) - Joseph W. Miles (short story)
• The Demon Plague (2002) - Karl Joreid and Frances McFate
• Beyond This Time (2003) - Charlotte Banchi
• A. D. 62: Pompeii, a Novel (2003) - Rebecca East
• The Resonance of Time (2004) - Victor Kruse
• The Time Traveler's Wife (2004) - Audrey Niffenegger
  

A good list of Children's time travel fiction can be found here, at this link.
An excellent essay on time travel literature through history can be found at this link.

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SOME TIME TRAVEL FILMS: (Red indicates films I've seen, with a short , subjective review and rating of up to 4 stars, 4 meaning "excellent". Films are in chronological order, appropriately! And obviously - or perhaps not - this isn't an exhaustive listing.)

• Berkeley Square (1933)
• Turn Back the Clock (1933)
• Time Flies (1944) - A minor music hall star uses a professor's time machine to go back to the days of Queen Elizabeth I.
• That Lady in Ermine (1948) - Circa 1861, the ruling countess of an Italian principality is at a loss when invaded by a Hungarian army. Her lookalike ancestress, who saved a similar situation 300 years before, comes to life from a portrait to help her descendant.
• Portrait of Jennie (1948) - (Link) A struggling artist  meets an enchanting young girl in the park who seems to be from a previous life. On each subsequent meeting, she is older and more beautiful. He falls in love with her and decides he must paint her portrait. He attempts to piece together the facts which led to her untimely death, and tries to keep it from happening again.
• I'll Never Forget You (1951)  - A nuclear scientist is hit by lightning and is sent back in time 150 years. Remake of 1933's "Berkeley Square"
• Beyond the Time Barrier (1959)  A 1950s jet pilot breaks the time barrier and flies into World War III America, which is populated with mutants and plagued with a deadly virus.
• Time Machine (1960) *** - (Link) An adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel. Starring Rod Taylor as H. G. ("George") Wells, the inventor of a time machine with which he travels to the future. The movie's special effects, though dated by today's standards, won Oscars.
• “La Jetée” (1961) - The film, by Chris Marker, upon which "12 Monkeys" would later be based. 
• The Yesterday Machine (1963)
• The Time Travellers (1964) - A time travel experiment that was supposed to produce a window into time turns out to be a portal instead. One of the experimenters steps through into a not-too-distant-future world that has been destroyed by nuclear war. Some of the others follow, but then the portal phases out and they can't get back. Things just get worse after that.
• Daleks': Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (1966) - Doctor Who spinoff movie, featuring a "Doctor" not in the original series.
• Dimension 5 (1966) - An American intelligence agent, aided by a Chinese-American female agent, uses a time-travel belt to thwart Chinese operatives who are attempting to import to Los Angeles the materials to make an atomic bomb.
• It's About Time (1966) - Two astronauts, after breaking the speed of light, accidently travel back in time to prehistoric Earth. Unable to return, they make friends with the "natives".
• Journey to the Center of Time (1967) * - (Link) - An interesting, if somewhat dated, attempt to explain time travel. The film has a certain B-Movie charm, but from the wordy and overly convoluted prologue to the unsatisfying ending, the film fails. It lacks just about all production values- values that were clearly available at the time for science fiction (The original Star Trek  proves you can portray time travel convincingly on a small budget.) The film leaves you with a yearning for a better plot and writing that makes sense. One of the funniest moments is when the owner of the company sponsoring the time experiments enters the lab and takes a mini-elevator ONE FOOT down into a sunken lab floor. Although I suppose this was the age of the electric curtain closer, too. Another funny part is the rest of the film, but I'm sure that's unintentional.
• Planet of the Apes (1968) ***  - Thought by many to be a "classic", this 60's era film does have much going for it. It has a great actor in Charlton Heston, some good lines, and a nice plot twist or two (no give-aways here!) It is rather dated, however, and the it appears to be a rather typical 60's morality play. If you hate preachy 60's morality plays, see it anyway, because it's probably the highest form of that genre.
• Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
• Time Slip (1970) - Simon and Liz were teenage siblings who fell into a time hole and found themselves trapped in  various periods of the 20th century, where they encounter all sorts of adventures. Many of them involve the nefarious Commander Traynor, who is also traveling in time.
• Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
• The Amazing Mr. Blunden (1972) After their mother is hired as the caretaker of a Victorian mansion, a pair of youngsters see a ghost. They are transported back in time to the turn of the 20th century, where they come to the aid of two children who are about to be murdered.
• Between Time and Timbuktu (1972) - (Link) A made-for-tv film based on several short stories of Kurt Vonnegut, and pieced together in a screenplay for a public television broadcast on March 13, 1972.
• Slaughterhouse Five (1972)  ***  -  This well-acted film features the character Billie Pilgrim, who survives the bombing of Dresden in a POW camp, then returns home, where he becomes "unstuck in time", living in the present, in the future, and in the past, simultaneously. A very disjointed but interesting film, though the "future" scenes, in which he becomes an exhibit in a zoo in a distant galaxy, is a bit much. However, it's based on Kurt Vonnegut's nightmarish novel, after all, so one must expect the Bizarre.
• Sky (1976) - A young time-traveller with superhuman powers is stranded on Earth after running into a Black Hole. Pursued by the evil Goodchild, Sky is helped on his quest to find a way home by three human teenagers, Arby, Jane and Roy.
• The Time Travelers (1976) - Two researchers travel back in time, trying to rescue a cure for a modern-day epidemic, but their plans go astray when their time travel brings them to Chicago not a week but a single day before the Great Chicago Fire.  Based on "Time Tunnel" by Charles W. Byrd (1958). Thanks to Mr. Byrd for giving me a synopsis of this film.
• The Fantastic Journey (1977) -  A plane makes the mistake of flying through the Bermuda Triangle. It crash-lands on a mysterious island, and the survivors discover that different parts of the island exist in different realities.
• Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1978)
• Two Worlds of Jennie Logan (1978) ***  - A bored housewife open to the idea of time travel finds herself wearing an antique dress, and travelling 78 years into the past. There she meets a man who is everything her husband is not, and falls in love. But can she find true love there? Can she save her new lover from a terrible fate as the new century chimes in? Starring Lindsay Wagner and co-starring future Dallas star Linda Gray, this film is well-acted and is worth seeing.
• Time After Time (1979) ** A young H. G. Wells, played by Malcolm McDowell, follows Jack the Ripper through time into San Francisco in 1979. He falls in love with a bank teller, played by Mary Steenbergen, and he tries to avoid her death at the hands of the Ripper. The story is good, and the clothes are sooo 1970s!
• The Final Countdown (1980) ***  An aircraft carrier is sent back to the Pacific Ocean just before Pearl Harbor is attacked in 1941. Once they realize what's happened, they have a dilemma: Do they have a duty to try to change history and win the war right then and there? Or should they allow history to remain as it is? An interesting moral discussion and the special effects are quite good. (Starring Kirk Douglas and Martin Sheen).
• The Girl, The Gold Watch, and Everything (1980) - Made-for-TV movie in which a man inherits a watch that stops time which he uses to fights bad guys before the time limit of one minute is up.
• Metal Mickey (1980) - Metal Mickey was a robot built by young Ken to do chores around the house. Ken was the youngest child of an (almost) typical British family. Metal Mickey was had a number of magic powers, which enabled it to battle aliens, travel through time, survive extreme temperatures, and other outlandish situations. 
• Somewhere In Time (1980) ****  In a turn of the century hotel, an aspiring actor (Christopher Reeve) wills himself back in time to 1910 in the very same hotel after falling in love with the picture of an actress, played by Jane Seymour, who once stayed there as a guest and performed in the hotel's theatre. Richard Matheson's novel, Bid Time Return, inspired this movie. A very well-shot movie, it is lush and beautifully acted.
• Time Bandits (1980) ***  Six dwarves and a British schoolboy use time portals to travel through Earth's history. This cleverly filmed and nicely plotted film is really a fun romp through history. However, it features the just about the worst Napoleon- Ian Holm - to ever appear on film, here, and in two other films. Aside from that Evil is brilliantly portrayed by David Warner. The Monty Python cast (the film was written and directed by Terry Gilliam) do cameos throughout the film, but do no dominate it with their off-center humor, which would be wrong here (well, OK, a scene with John Clesse as Robin Hood was pretty absurd). Speaking of cameos, there are several good ones. 
• Warp Speed (1981) - An astronaut takes a flight and comes back to Earth at a slight time shift, where everybody seems to be moving very slowly except him.
• Timerider (1982) A motorcycle and its rider is thrust back in time to the old west.
• Prisoners of the Lost Universe (1983) - (Link) Low-budget made-for-TV film about Modern people cross a gateway to anotherprimative world where humans and non-humans live in a primitive time where
  they fight with swords.
• The Cold Room (1984) A young woman visiting East Berlin is transported back in time to World War II when she enters a strange room behind her hotel room's wall.
• The Philadelphia Experiment (1984) *** - (Link) In 1943, a battleship in Philadelphia is part of an experiment trying to make it invisible to radar. Instead, it's sent into a time vortex, where many men are hurt or killed. Two men jump overboard, and find themselves flung ahead in time to Nevada in 1984, where further experiments are taking place. The shock of them adapting to modern life is enjoyable to watch. Just a note: this film is supposedly based upon a real event.
• The Terminator (1984) ***
• Back to the Future Parts I through III (1985, 1989, 1990) **** (all)  In this timetravel classic, Michael J. Fox plays Marty McFly, whose friend Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) builds a time machine from a modified DeLorean.  The films explore time travel paradoxes in great detail, and are the best of the genre. In part one, McFly accidentally goes back in time and meets his parents in 1955. By changing the past, he endangers his own future, so he must arrange for his parents to meet and fall in love. Part two occurs in 2015, and McFly has to save his kids and his girlfriend - who tagged along for the ride - gets a look at what's in store for her. Part three finds McFly and Doc in the Old West. They must prevent Doc Brown's death at the hands of "Mad Dog" Bufford Tannen. All three commend themselves to the time travel enthusiast for different reasons. Those looking for nostalgia can't help but love part one's sunny '50s view of Americana. Part two is for the physicist, who will enjoy the many twists and turns of time traveling from 2015 to 1985 and back again. Part three is good fun in the wild, wild west.  (Just a note, I've seen Part One at least 25 times!)
• Trancers (1985)
• Biggles (1986) *** - (Link) Jim Ferguson- who lives in New York in the 1980s- is suddenly transported back to World War I to help his "time twin", "Biggles", who is in danger. Whenever either of them is in danger, they are transported to help one another. There are some problems with the film: with paradox, with character reactions to being shifted in time (i.e. they aren't very surprised by it), with the "secret weapon" and its unexplained origin, and even with the age of one character (A WWI officer would have been well over 90 in 1985, yet he still appears to be in his 60s!), but these don't detract from this interesting, well-filmed and at times very funny movie. (What Ferguson and Biggles bring back to 1917 will amaze you!)
• Flight of the Navigator (1986) ***  An excellent film about a 12-year-old who becomes a missing person in 1978, only to return in 1986, without having aged a day. What happened? The mystery is answered, but I won't give it away here.
• Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) ***  I wrote a review of this film here a few years ago that was very harsh. But having seen this film again in 2002, I gave it a second chance - and two more "stars" than my original "one star" rating. Kathleen Turner plays the teen-aged "Peggy Sue", who goes back to 1960 and inhabits her own body. What follows are her strong, emotional reactions to seeing her parents, sister, friends and long-dead grandparents again. Yes, the plot is silly. Yes, the way that is used to bring her back to the present is contrived, but it's also often clever and funny (like when she dates the school's "beatnik" or confides in the school physics nerd.) What's interesting is that while she's in the past, every attempt to change history by not marrying her philandering husband (Nicholas Cage) ends up with her back where she was in the present. She discovers that her love for him was stronger than she thought it was, and it transcended time itself. It's no "Back to the Future," but it takes a wistful look at a long-gone era, and makes us all want to go back to high school again, even if it's to the 1980s to see this in the theater for the first time.
• Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) *** The crew of the Enterprise use a captured Klingon spaceship to go back in time to 1986 San Francisco to save the earth's whales, since this is crucial to saving 24th century Earth. The funniest, and most say the best, of the Star Trek "Original Cast" movies.
• Timestalkers (1987) *** -(Link) A time-travelling woman from the 26th century (Lauren Hutton) convinces a modern-day college professor (William Devane) to help her track down her scientist father's evil associate - who has fled back to the 1800s to kill an important figure in history. This has one of the neatest time travel gimmicks I've ever seen used in a TT film: The evil associate wants to get into a military facility. But it's too heavily guarded. So, he goes up on a hill, overlooking the facility. Then, he goes back in time to the 1920s- BEFORE the facility is built. Then, he walks down the hill to where the facility WILL BE built in the future. Then, he goes ahead again to the present day. Brilliant! This is a gem of a film and is worth seeing.
• The Navigator: A Mediaeval Odyssey (1988) *** In this magical film, 14th century European villagers dig a hole to the other side of the earth to escape the coming plague - and to explain a young boy's visions of the 20th century. The villagers reach the modern world - a 20th century city- but are unable to find anything but violence and confusion. The interaction between the characters and modern life is enchanting and believable, and you'll be rooting for the characters.
• Millennium (1989)** A future time-travelling society infiltrates the past to take bodies of those who are about to die on plane crashes. Stars the wooden acting of Kris Kristofferson and Cheryl Ladd. The best parts take place in the "present", and the somewhat lame explanation of paradoxes (and the resulting "time quakes") mar the film, slightly. Also- a hokey ending. ("Goof": Watch Ladd's hair when she enters the bar, then when inside. She got quite a perm in that doorway!!)
• Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)*** Two teenagers from California travel through time in a phone booth to get ready for their history report, which is very important for them to pass. They end up in a future world where their (yet to be unwritten) music is the basis of all of society- a frightening thought, once you hear the music and the platitudes that go along with it! For their history report, they bring back personalities like Socrates, Abraham Lincoln, Joan of Arc, Sigmund Freud and Napoleon. (Forget continuity, forget plausibility, just enjoy it!) Look for George Carlin playing their mentor. The film explores paradoxes in a funny way (watch the scenes where they sneak around the police station- and try to follow it!)
• Warlock (1989)  - A warlock flees from the 16th to the 20th century, with a witch-hunter in hot pursuit.
• Time Barbarians (1990) - A medieval warrior chases a bad guy to modern day Los Angeles to avenge the death of his wife.
• Running Against Time (1990) - Made-for-TV Movie in which history professor David Rhodes never has got over the 1966 death of his older brother, in Vietnam. When he hears the rumor that a famous professor is working on a time machine, he immediately contacts him and persuades him to allow him to travel back in time and correct history. If he could save President Kennedy's life, Vietnam war might never have happened!
• Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time (1991)
• Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) * Not as good as the first film, though this sequel features a hillarious series of contests with "Death". ("Twister", anyone?)
• The Spirit of '76 (1991)  Twenty-Second Century time travelers, distraught with their own time, try to go back to 1776 to see what went wrong in their world. Instead, they end up on 1976!
  Terminator 2: Judgment Day  (1991)  ***- The second Terminator movie. Skynet, the 21st century computer waging a losing war on humans sends a second terminator back in time to destroy the leader of the human resistance while he is still a boy. His mother is the only one who knows of the existence of Skynet's Terminators, and is in an insane asylum because of her first encounter with them. The humans send a protector back to protect the boy, John Connor, future leader of the human resistance. This film was a pioneer of many special effects, including "morphing". The story is told well, and relies on the viewer knowing a great deal about the first film. It's well worth renting.
• Freejack (1992) ** A maniacal billionaire wants to transfer his mind into a younger body. To do this, he takes the body of a race car driver who is about to die in the past, and brings him into the future, just before his car is destroyed in a race. Look for Mick Jagger as the billionaire's security chief. Emilio Estevez is the driver.
• The Grand Tour: Disaster in Time (1992)**** - (Link)  A widower (Jeff Daniels) who is about to open a small inn is greeted by strange guests who insist on renting some rooms even though the inn is still under construction. He accepts, but begins to suspect that something about them isn't quite right. Yup, they're time travellers, and what he finds out shocks him. He must do something to redeem himself and soothe his tortured conscience (I don't want to give ANYTHING away on this one, because this is a high quality film, despite an obvious paradox.)
• Time Runner (1992)
• Waxwork 2: Lost in Time (1992)
• Army of Darkness (1993) -   A modern-day man travels back to medieval time to fight an army of the dead.
• Groundhog Day (1993) *** - A weather man, played by Bill Murray, upset about having to cover Groundhog Day in a podunk town, delivers a lackluster and sarcastic story. The next day, he finds himself reporting on the same story on the same day. The next day, he finds himself reporting on the same story on the same day. And so on. Finally, he comes to use the repeated day to his advantage, and then learns from it. A very enjoyable film.
• The Philadelphia Experiment II (1993) ***  - (Link) Nine years after the events of the first film, it turns out that the experiment has been reinitiated. Using the time-traveling capabilities of the experiment, a scientist sends a Stealth Bomber back to Nazi Germany, where his father- also a scientist- uses it to win the war for Germany. One of the protagonists of the first film, living in 1993, is thrust into a parallel universe caused by the change in history. Interesting exploration of parallel universes and paradox- especially the "grandfather/father paradox". Though the Nazi version of America is somewhat cartoonish and stereotypical, and there's a flaw or two regarding paradoxes, it's a well-filmed story.
• Time Runner (1993)
• 12:01 (1993) ***  An experiment to create a "supercollider" to power electric generators backfires, creating a "time bounce" at the point the experiment fires, causing the entire day to repeat itself over and over again. An employee of the plant that designed the device remembers the day (and knows that it's repeating) because he received an electric shock at the precise time the device fired. Re-living each day on his job at the plant, he must stop the device from firing - and prevent a murder.
• APEX (1994) *  In an obvious steal from the "Terminator" movies, in 2073, a time travel lab inadvertently loses control of an experiment that goes to a desert in 1973. An APEX (Advanded Prototype EXtermination unit - think "Blade Runner") is sent back in time to "sterilize" the area, but one of the scientists goes back with it when he notices a young child caught in its sights. This causes a "time paradox", and he's sucked back into an alternate future- a world in which the clones of the original robot, who stayed in the past with the command to "sterlize" the area of people, are still programmed to kill all living things. The "paradox" plot has massive holes, such as "Who built the time travel lab in the future created by the paradox?", and "How are the same people together in this timeline?" You'll find yourself focused more on the unnecessary "R-rated" language than the plot, what there is of it.
• Star Trek: Generations (1994) ** A mad scientist-type creates a "ribbon of time", in which both captains of the Enterprise (Kirk/Picard, Shatner/Stewart) must work together. The paradoxical sommersault of a plot devise used to bring the two captains together is a masterpiece of scriptwriting. Yet, it makes no sense at all.
• Time Chasers (1994) *   Since this film was featured on "Mystery Science Theater 3000," you have to know it's got problems, mainly coming from its low-budget technology. An inventor who can't drive a car creates a time machine from his small plane, and then seeks funding from a large corporation. But he realizes that the future is in danger and must  prevent its abuse at the hands of the evil CEO. The film would have benefitted from better technology (the computer he uses to create the machine is 10 years out-of-date) and perhaps more "fun" in the future or the past. The ending, and perhaps the film, could have been salvaged a bit by everyone suddenly having British accents. You'll have to see it to know what I mean.
• Timecop (1994) **** Jean-Claude Van Damme plays a cop who's assigned to a special unit set up to protect Time Travel from being misused. Of course he's too late, and he must go back in time to stop a corrupt Senator (played very well by Ron Silver) from manipulating the past for his own power. This film explores the paradox problem well. Look for some- but not much- of Van Damme's kickboxing skills! The film inspired a short-running but well-done CBS TV show in the fall of 1997.
• The Drivetime (1995)
• A Kid in King Arthur's Court  (1995)
• The Langoliers (1995) * - Made-for-TV time travel adventure with an ensemble cast. Everyone who's read the Stephen King novel has told me to read it instead of renting this four-hour psychodrama. Ten passengers on an airplane are caught in a "time rift" and must discover what's going on before it's too late, and they are eaten by 1995-era computer-generated Pac-Man-like beings. At points in this VERY long film, one wishes that the entire cast would die, especially the one played by Bronson Pinchot, who gave an over-the-top performance that was neither necessary nor endearing. The film could  be cut by 60 minutes or more, doing little damage to the  plot. However, one must admit that the concept of time King envisions here is handled cleverly.
• Timemaster (1995)
• Twelve Monkeys (1995) ***  Bruce Willis plays a man who lives in a world that has been ravaged by disease brought on by biological terrorism. Following leads discovered by a ruling caste of doctors, he is sent back in time to 1996 to prevent the "Army of the 12 Monkeys" from carrying out their anti-human plot. The film is a perfect example of circular logic, i.e., all of the "clues" were/are sent by the person going back in time to follow-up on the clues! Besides this, the film is well-acted (see Brad Pitt as a convincing psychotic!) See it twice, because it's a bit confusing. The ending is quite good.
• Star Trek: First Contact (1996) **** The Enterprise, upon encountering a Borg vessel near earth, witnesses a pod going back in time to the 21st century, in order to prevent earthlings from developing a warp drive which will allow them to have interstellar spaceflight. They follow it, only to find the world now dominated by by the Borg. They must go back to make sure that "First contact" occurs between humanity and the first race in this quadrant. The time travel theme is well developed and plausible (i.e. it fits within the Star Trek genre themes, as developed by the TV show.) Probably the best "Next Generation" Star Trek film. 
• Contact (1997) - (Link) - This film was based on the novel Contact, by Carl Sagan. It's the story of a  radio astronomer (Jodie Foster) who discovers an intelligent signal broadcast from deep space. She and her fellow scientists are able to decipher the Message and discover detailed instructions for building a mysterious machine. This film has a Time Travel element to it, but if you haven't seen it, I won't ruin it for you.
• Crime Traveller (1997) - Detective Jeff Slade teams up with scientist Holly Turner, who has created a time machine that can travel back a matter of hours. Together they solve mysteries using the device.
• Event Horizon (1997)
• Retroactive (1997)
• Sphere (1998)
• Lost In Space (1998) **  Loosely based on the 1960s TV show, it was panned by the critics. It features a time travel sequence, which is crucial to the plot. The graphics are very well-done, and the acting is...adequate. There are problems with time travel in this film, however. After renting it, and watching it, ask yourself these questions: "Isn't he STILL infected with the bug, even after they went back in time? Aren't they STILL in danger?" Hmmm. "Still in Danger, Danger, Will Robinson!" (If I'm wrong, please tell me.)
• Pleasantville (1998) ** - (Link) - Two kids living in 1998 is transported back to the  Leave it to Beaver world of the 1950's by being "zapped" into a 50s TV show. Predictably, those folks back there are living "boring", colorless lives, until they show them how to "lighten up". What results is a vicious attack on what Hollywood considered "uptight" morality, with Time Travel simply a fantasy device for telling this anti-morality tale.
• Twice Upon a Time (1998) - A woman (played by Molly Ringwald), is unhappy with her life and makes a wish for a different life. Soon, she is whisked off to a parallel world where her life is different and she falls back in love with her boyfriend (George Newbern).
• Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) ***  - This sequel to the first "Austin Powers" movie employs time travel as a devise to great effect, as Austin Powers must go back in time to regain his "mojo" (his sexual powers), stolen by Dr. Evil. Don't look for continuity here, just laugh. Dr. Evil steals the show here with his hillarious send ups of modern culture and his strained relationship with his son and "mini me". It's not an excellent film, but go just to see Dr. Evil.
• Blackadder: Back and Forth (1999) - To fool their friends on Millenium Eve, Blackadder and Baldrick build a bogus time machine and charge people to bring back artifacts (which Blackadder already owns). Trouble is, the time machine actually works!
• Blast from the Past (1999) *** - Brendan Fraser plays a naive man who comes out into the world after  being in a nuclear fallout shelter for 35 years. This charming but engaging film sets up numerous funny lines and situations. While not *strictly* a Time Travel film, the "boy out of water" Frasier plays as he is thrust into the late 1990s is typical of Time Travel films.
• Carnivale (1999) - Animated tale by former Tim Burton art director Deane Taylor has many of Burton's dark themes. Children playing by the sea shore are lured into a time travel portal where they are taken to an amusement park. There they are having loads of fun until they discover that if they don't escape immediately, they will be forever trapped there as inanimate objects.
• The Love Letter (1999) - (Link) - A made-for-TV movie about a contemporary man who buys an antique desk and finds that he can correspond with a woman from the 1860's.  Based on a beautiful and creative short story by Jack Finney.
• Thrill Seekers (1999) *** - (Link)- Made-for-TV movie about a reporter who stumbles across photos of various disasters - including the Hindenburg and the Titanic - all of which feature a mysterious stranger in the background. His investigation leads him to the Time Shifters, a group of thrill-seekers who travel back in time to witness similar calamities throughout history. Merrick desperately tries to avert future disasters - a plane crash, a subway crash, a bomb in an athletic complex - and protect the lives of his son and ex-wife.  A well-acted film with a good plot. Note: This film was released as "The Time Shifters," but has apparently been relabeled for video release.
• All Over Again (2000) - A 17-year old boy meets up with his 67-year old self, who tries to warn him of the things that took him down the wrong path in life.
• Frequency (2000) ****- (Link) - An excellent film in which a man connects with his long-dead father who is using his ham radio thirty years ago. An accidental cross-time radio link connects father and son, who are embroiled in an adventure when the son tries to save his father's life. This is a supurb film which surprisingly works as well as a mystery film as it does as a time travel film. The acting is top-notch by Dennis Quaid as the father and James Caviezel as the son. Aging Boomers will enjoy visiting 1969 again, and younger viewers will enjoy the "tips" sent back to that era from the man's son in the present. One could quibble with some of the time travel elements (such as burning desks, etc) but I won't, because the film exceeds any minor flaws in physics with its emotional impact. Read my glowing review of this incredible film on http://www.imdb.com/ .
• For All Time (2000) **** - (Link)  - Loosely based on the classic Twilight Zone episode "A Stop At Willoughby," this intelligent and heartwarming CBS made-for-TV movie stars Mark Harmon and Mary McDonnell as two people from different centuries who fall in love. This film features a beautifully-filmed, family-friendly and romantic plot.
• Happy Accidents (2000)  (Link) Sam Deed "backtravels" from the year 2470 to save Ruby of 1999's New York. The whole story reinforces time-loop, reoccurring events as Sam's actions help create problem he came to fix. Very interesting effects of time-travel, Sam experiences the "Drag," a residual effect of backtravellers where they become transfixed and time is experienced backwards. Co-starring Marisa Tomei.
• Black Knight (2001) (Link) - Martin Lawrence plays Jamal, an employee in Medieval World amusement park. After sustaining a blow to the head, he awakens to find himself in 14th century England
• Donnie Darko (2001)
• Forever (2001) - As the long-distant past beckons to a modern Australian woman, drawing her into a reluctant  journey of self-discovery crossing 700 years and two continents, a story emerges, piece by  piece, of trust, love, revenge, forgiveness, hope and redemption told through choices made and fates embraced, as she faces a second chance that could change her destiny, and those around her - forever.
• Just Visiting (2001) -  A medieval knight and his vassal are transported through time to modern Chicago, where he meets his distant descendant (Christina Applegate), a dead-ringer for the medieval woman he loved.
• Kate and Leopold (2001) ***  -  Kate McKay (Meg Ryan) is a modern-day executive, a 21st century woman driven to succeed in the corporate world. Leopold (Hugh Jackman), the Third Duke of Albany, is a charming bachelor in the 19th century. Each has grown weary of waiting for love. But when a dramatic twist of fate lands Leopold in present-day New York, they must confront the prospect of a love affair 100 years in the making. Good film, though it can be tiresome at times. The Duke becomes a little too familiar with the 21st century a little too quickly. Anyone from the 1800s plopped down in our culture would be hiding under a desk for several days after seeing all the changes. But that wouldn't be too sexy of a romantic comedy, would it? Here, Jackman's Duke learns to use a remote control rather quickly, and thinks almost nothing about some things (TV) though he is bemused and befuddled by an answering machine.
• Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) - (Link) - a secret society called the Illuminati is seeking an ancient talisman that gives its possessor the ability to control time. However, they need a certain clock/key to help them in their search, and they have to find the talisman in one week or wait until the next planetary alignment to find it again. Lara happens to find that key hidden in a wall of her mansion.
• Mark Twain's Greatest Adventure: "It's a Matter of Time" (2001) - (Link) - Mark Twain on the way home from one of his last speaking tours in 1906, is jostled on a train by two men, one in pursuit of the other, Twain picks up a newspaper dated 2001. He follows them and it turns out he is following H.G. Wells, who, in turn, is on a time travel chase of Dr. Noah, a brilliant Scientist who intends to destroy the world. Through time travel, Wells and Twain team up with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and a Young Jules Verne and wind up in 2001.
• Minute Men (2001?) - Similar to "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" and "Ghostbusters," "Minute Men" revolves around three geeks who create a time machine that can only go back in time 10 minutes. Forming a company called "Minute Men," the geeks try to capitalize on the invention by using it to help people solve their problems.
• "Power Rangers: Time Force" (2001)  When a crimelord from the year 3000 finds that times are too tough, he goes back in time to 2001. And the Power Rangers of year 3000 come back to battle him. Things only get crazier when the bad guy masters time travel, allowing him to pop up wherever he wants in the timestream.
• Clockstoppers (2002) (Link)  -   A teenager accidentally activates a machine that enables him to make time stand still. Directed by Star Trek: The Next Generation's Jonathan Frakes (Commander Riker). 
• Minority Report (2002) **** (Link ) -  In the 2050's, a Washington, D.C.-based police division of "pre-crime" arrests people before they commit murder by using the sensitive minds of three empathic children to "see" Time-echoes of the crimes before they occur. But the tables are turned when one pre-crime officer (Tom Cruise) finds himself arrested for a future murder. He must find out what he is accused of doing, and stop it. The film is based upon a Philip K. Dick story, and is directed by Steven Spielberg. The film offers a startling and realistic view of future technology. Spielberg brought in Syd Mead (Blade Runner's "Visual Futurist") and experts on the future of technology to make cars, phones and even advertising look plausible. Without benig preacy, the film explores the morality of assigning guilt before a crime is committed, and offers thought-provoking questions to ponder about technology, our culture and even advertising. Well acted and beautifully filmed, this is a movie you do not want to miss. 
• Time Changer (2002) - A Bible professor writes a paper in 1890 and is sent 100 years into the future to see how far America has morally degenerated as a result of his paper. Said to be a film with a strongly conservative Christian message.
• The Time Machine (2002) *** - (Link) - Scientist and inventor Alexander Hartdegen is determined to prove that time travel is possible, driven by a personal to desire to change an unpleasant occurance in the past. Testing his theories with his time machine, he is hurtled to 2030, then 800,000 years into the future. This is a nicely filmed and well-told story that reminds us what good science fiction is supposed to look like. The film's view of 1899 is charming and its 2030 is not over the top. Orlando Jones as a computerized card catalog of the 2030s offers laughs. Based on the classic science fiction novel by H.G. Wells, "The Time Machine," it is interestingly directed by Wells' great-grandson, Simon Wells. TRIVIA: This film was originally scheduled for a Christmas, 2001 release date. After the 9/11 attacks, the film was re-edited to take out a scene showing New York City being destroyed by an asteroid. It was not reinserted into the DVD release. The scene in which the 1890s turn into the 2030s as Hartdegen time travels is very nearly the most spectacular of any computer graphic put on film. It's worth renting or buying the DVD to watch in slow-motion! 
• Time Quest (2002) ** (Link) - I picked up this straight-to-video flick for $7.99. It was pretty hideous, although it had some high points. A time traveller, inspired as a child by Jackie Kennedy's grace after the assassination, goes back to Nov. 22, 1963, meets the Kennedys and tells them about JFK's and RFK's assassinations, thus preventing both. What happens next is a rather disjointed story, jumping from era to era, and leaving the viewer confused as to what is going on. The "alternate reality" the changes create is not believable. A Clinton-style speech to the nation on infidelity, a "second gunman" plot in Dallas and a cross-dressing J. Edgar Hoover are portrayed as fact here and are not credible. These and other things made me cringe, including the fact that everything would be utterly rosy had JFK lived. There are also some plot holes and some rather amateurish dialogue. The way the time traveler character was handled was a missed opportunity.
• Timeline (2003) *** - (Link) - Despite some bad reviews of this film at the time of release, it actually delivers a rather good story about a group of archealogists in France who find out the reasons for a large company supporting their dig aren't exactly pure. The characters seem to accept time travel as a concept a little to easily, it seems, but once in the past, what happens to them (i.e. characters actually die) is realistic and pulls no punches. 
• Time Cop: The Berlin Decision (2003) *** - (Link) - Straight-to-video sequel of the Jean Claude Van Damme 1994 original - without Van Damme. But Jason Scott Lee does a servicable job in the role as a time cop. The film isn't half bad.  It's got high production values, its plot is okay, and sometimes, even the dialogue is good. (One question, though, does every time cop need to know kick boxing? Just asking. The fight scenes are well done.) Dialogue can be bad at points, and the moralizing about time travel's danger is well-worn, having been in every TT film listed above. It's out of place here, and a bit anachronistic. I mean, if you were a time cop, would YOU be constantly talking about time's perils? Also, we just KNOW that once we learn Lee's character's father - a physics professor with an interest in TT - died long ago,  that he will be tempted at some point to bring him back. Catch this on video or, like I did, on cable, for a good TT romp.
• The Butterfly Effect (2004) - (Link) -  (Description from the official Website): Ashton Kutcher plays a young man who has had a troubled childhood. He is determined to do something now that he was incapable of doing then. He travels back in time, his present-day mind occupying his childhood body, in an attempt to re-write history and spare his friends and loved ones these traumatic experiences. By altering the events of the past, Evan hopes to transform the present. But every time Evan changes something in the past, he returns to the present to find his actions have unexpected and disastrous consequences. Try as he might, he can’t seem to create a reality that allows he and Kayleigh to live “happily ever after.” Interestingly, this film uses the same concept as A Sound of Thunder (see below) but will be released months earlier, due to SOT's numerous delays.
• The Winning Season (2004) *** - (Link)- This TNT TV movie tells the tale of a 12-year-old who is transported back in time to the 1909 World Series between Pittsburg and Detroit after finding a Honus Wagner baseball card, which is worth a fortune, in an elderly neighbor's attic. Based on the book "Honus & Me" by Dan Gutman, this film is lushly photographed. Scenes of the 1909 World Series really takes you back to the way it used to be!
• Primer (2004) (Link) - Four friends/fledgling entrepreneurs, knowing that there's something bigger and more innovative than the different error-checking devices they've built, wrestle over their new invention. Richard Roeper call this film "maddening," but Roger Ebert actually liked it and has nice things to say about its style.
• A Sound of Thunder (2005) - (Link) -  (RELEASE WIDE SEPT 2, 2005) - A game hunter (Edward Burns) goes on a time-traveling safari to hunt dinosaurs in the prehistoric era. When he kills a butterfly, he unknowingly sets off a chain reaction that will erase humanity from existence. A team of experts must return back in time and replace the butterfly. Long-delayed film release date (it finished filming in Fall, 2002 - was originally scheduled for an April, 2003 release, a March 11, 2005 release date was recently changed to September) may spell trouble for this classic Time Travel concept, based on a short story by Ray Bradbury (Read the full text online.) On the other hand, some say the amount of special effects required the extra time.
• The Jacket (2005) (Link) -  A military veteran returns to his native Vermont suffering from bouts of amnesia. When he is accused of murder and lands in an asylum, a well-meaning doctor puts him on a heavy course of experimental drugs, restrains him in a jacket-like device, and locks him away in a body drawer of the basement morgue. The process sends him on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death in four day's time. Now the only question that matters is: can the woman he meets in the future save him?

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