Posts Tagged ‘time-travel’

Back to the Future Part II (1989)

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Marc McClure | Joe Flaherty | George Di Cenzo | Michael J. Fox | Christopher Lloyd | Lea Thompson | Thomas F. Wilson | Elisabeth Shue | James Tolkan | Jeffrey Weissman | Casey Siemaszko | Billy Zane | J.J. Cohen | Charles Fleischer | E. Casanova Evans | Jay Koch | Charles Gherardi | Ricky Dean Logan
Directors: Robert Zemeckis
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This movie picks up where the last one left off; with Doc Brown and Marty going into the future to help Marty’s future offspring. After doing that they returned to their own time, only to discover that things have changed. They discovered that while in the future, Marty’s nemesis, Biff Tannen got the sports book that Marty bought so that he could know the results of sports events and make a killing, but Doc Brown nixed his plans, but Tannen who overheard their conversation, got the book and the time machine and went back into the past and gave the book to himself, who has not only amassed a fortune but also extremely powerful. So Doc and Marty have to go back to when Biff got the book and get it away from him. And it seems that it was in 1955 on the night of the dance that Biff got the book. So not only must they get the book but they must also avoid the other versions of themselves.

Sphere (1998)

Thursday, September 11th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Samuel L. Jackson | Dustin Hoffman | Sharon Stone | Queen Latifah | Liev Schreiber | Peter Coyote | Marga Gomez
Directors: Barry Levinson
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1000 feet below the ocean, navy divers discover an object half-a-mile long. A crack team of scientists are deployed to the site in Deepsea Habitats. What they find boggles the mind as they discover a perfect metal sphere. What is the secret behind the sphere? Will they survive the mysterious ‘manifestations’? Who or what is creating these? They may never live to find out.

Deja Vu (2006)

Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Denzel Washington | Paula Patton | Val Kilmer | James Caviezel | Adam Goldberg | Elden Henson | Erika Alexander | Bruce Greenwood | Rich Hutchman | Matt Craven | Donna W. Scott | Elle Fanning | Brian Howe | Enrique Castillo | Mark Phinney
Directors: Tony Scott
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After an explosion on a ferry kills over 500 people including a large group of party-going sailors, an ATF agent investigates the crime. AN FBI agent also joins the investigation. Impressed with the ATF agent’s skills, the FBI agent invites him to join a new team that has a new program that uses satellite technology to look backwards in time for 4-1/2 days to try to capture the terrorist. Meanwhile a young woman who was burned washes up on shore. Meant to look like part of of the explosion, the body arrives at its location too soon, which leads the agents to believe her death is related to the explosion. As they use the new technology to study the woman, the ATF agent determines that this is not satellite imagery but somehow is using a time warp. From this point in the film, the movie moves from a crime film to a sci-fi time paradox film. Nonetheless, the action is non-stop and always captivating. The end of the film may be confusing to some people, but it is all laid out if one cares to look carefully. Contains some extreme violence that some may find disturbing, particularly during the explosion when many people are shown jumping off the boat in flames.

Galaxy Quest (1999)

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Tony Shalhoub | Sam Rockwell | Patrick Breen | Tim Allen | Sigourney Weaver | Alan Rickman | Daryl Mitchell | Robin Sachs | Enrico Colantoni
Directors: Dean Parisot
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Eighteen years after their sci-fi adventure show “Galaxy Quest” was canceled, actors Jason Nesmith, Gwen DeMarco, Alexander Dane, Tommy Webber, and Fred Kwan are making appearances at sci-fi conventions and store openings in costume and character. They’re wallowing in despair and at each other’s throats until aliens known as Thermians arrive and, having mistaken the show for fact and consequently modeling their entire culture around it, take them into space to save them from the genocidal General Sarris and his armada.

Time Bandits (1981)

Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: John Cleese | Sean Connery | Ian Holm | Michael Palin | Ralph Richardson | Peter Vaughan | David Warner | David Rappaport | Kenny Baker | Malcolm Dixon | Mike Edmonds | Jack Purvis | Tiny Ross | Craig Warnock | David Daker
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A young boy’s wardrobe contains a time hole. Through this hole an assortment of short people (i.e. dwarfs) come while escaping from their master, the supreme being. They take Kevin with them on their adventures through time from Napoleonic times to the Middle Ages to the early 1900s, to the time of Legends and the Fortress of Ultimate Darkness where they confront Evil.

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Mike Myers | Elizabeth Hurley | Michael York | Mimi Rogers | Robert Wagner | Seth Green | Fabiana Udenio | Mindy Sterling | Paul Dillon | Charles Napier | Will Ferrell | Joann Richter | Anastasia Sakelaris | Afifi Alaouie | Monet Mazur
Directors: Jay Roach
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Austin Powers (Myers) is a 60’s spy who is cryonically frozen and released in the 1990’s. The world is a very different place for Powers. Unfortuantly for Austin, everyone is no longer sex-mad. Although he may be in a different decade, his mission is still the same. He has teamed up with Vanessa Kensington (Hurley) to stop the evil Dr. Evil (Myers), who was also frozen in the past. Dr. Evil stole a nuclear weapon and is demanding a payment of (when he realises its the 90’s) 100 billion dollars. Can Austin Powers stop this madman? or will he caught up with Evil’s henchman, with names like Alotta Fagina and Random Task? Only time will tell!

Kate & Leopold (2001)

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Meg Ryan | Hugh Jackman | Liev Schreiber | Breckin Meyer | Natasha Lyonne | Bradley Whitford | Paxton Whitehead | Spalding Gray | Josh Stamberg | Matthew Sussman | Charlotte Ayanna | Philip Bosco | Andrew Jack | Stan Tracy | Kristen Schaal
Directors: James Mangold
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Kate and her actor brother live in N.Y. in the 21st Century. Her ex-boy friend, Stuart, lives above her apartment and finds this space near the Brooklyn Bridge where there is a gap in time. He goes back to the eighteen hundreds and takes pictures of the place. Leopold, a man living in the 1870’s, was puzzled by Stuart’s tiny camera and decides to follow him and they both ended up in this century. Leopold is clueless about his new surroundings. He gets help and insights from Charlie who thinks that Leopold is an actor who is always in character. Leopold is a highly intelligent man and tries his best to learn and even improve the modern conveniences that he encounters.

The Family Man (2000)

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Don Cheadle | Nicolas Cage | Jeremy Piven | Téa Leoni | Josef Sommer | Saul Rubinek
Directors: Brett Ratner
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A modern-day Frank Capra story. Jack Campbell, a successful and talented businessman, is happily living his single life. He has everything, or so he thinks. One day he wakes up in a new life where he didn’t leave his college girlfriend for a London trip. He’s married to Kate, lives in Jersey and has two kids. He, of course, desperately wants his life back for which he has worked 13 years for. He’s president of P. K. Lassiter Investment House and not a tire salesman at Big Ed’s. He drives a Ferrari and not a mini-van that never starts. And most importantly he doesn’t wake up in the morning with kids jumping on the bed. After a bad start, day by day he’s more confident in his new life and starts to see what he’s been missing. Turns out money’s good to have but that’s not everything.

Meet the Robinsons (2007)

Monday, March 17th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Angela Bassett | Daniel Hansen | Jordan Fry | Matthew Josten | John H. H. Ford | Dara McGarry | Tom Kenny | Laurie Metcalf | Don Hall | Paul Butcher | Tracey Miller-Zarneke | Wesley Singerman | Jessie Flower | Ethan Sandler
Directors: Stephen J. Anderson
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Meet the Robinsons is filled with extraordinarily inappropriate and insensitive messages about adoption that will be disturbing to many children. The basic story is about an adorable baby whose birthmother leaves him on the doorstep of an orphanage. Portrayed as loving, sweet, extremely smart and overly appealing, he spends the next 12 years of his life wanting a family and being turned down by one family after another - in all, 114 couples refuse to adopt him. One disturbing scene shows a prospective dad losing interest in adopting the child because the youngster is more interested in science than sports. When he accidentally splatters them with food from his science project, both prospective parents walk out in a huff , leaving one very sad and disappointed little boy. Since no one else wants him, the child invents a time machine that will take him back in time to find his birth mother. The “bad guy” in his time travel journey turns out to be his best childhood buddy who was once his orphanage roommate. Now an emotional wreck resulting from being left behind when the orphanage was closed and shut down, the once-cute orphan is now mean and devious. The story continues with numerous monsters attacking the child as he continues to search for his birth mother.

Timecop (1994)

Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Japan | USA
Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme | Mia Sara | Ron Silver | Bruce McGill | Gloria Reuben | Scott Bellis | Jason Schombing | Scott Lawrence | Kenneth Welsh | Brent Woolsey | Brad Loree | Shane Kelly | Richard Faraci | Steven Lambert | Kevin McNulty
Directors: Peter Hyams
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In Washington DC in 1994, the Senate Oversight Committee (SOC) is being spoken to in the capitol building by George Spota, who explains that for the past 20 years, Doctor Hans Kleindast, the Nobel laureate who help the government with the space program back in the 1960s and 1970s, has been doing research, and his field of research has been time travel. The SOC believes that Hans is a quack — until George tells the SOC that Hans actually succeeded in his research and took a trip to the past then back to the present. You can’t travel into the future because the future hasn’t happened yet. George makes it clear that a covert agency is needed to police time travel, so the Time Enforcement Commission (TEC) is formed. Named as the director of the TEC is Commander Eugene Matuzak, formerly of the Washington DC police department. Senator Aaron McComb, who sees possibilities, agrees to chair the oversight on the new program. Sometime later, at a shopping center, TEC agent Max Walker and his wife Melissa are being watched by a pair of shady looking men. Later, at home. Max and Melissa spend some passionate time together. That night, Melissa is about to tell Max something extremely important when the phone rings. Max answers the phone and is told to go to TEC headquarters. Max gets dressed and as soon as Max opens the front door to go outside, he is attacked by the two men from the shopping center. As the two men are beating Max up. Max sees Aaron looking out the window of the bedroom that Melissa is still in, and Aaron is holding Melissa hostage, forcing Melissa to watch Max’s beating. The two men outside then shoot Max, who is wearing a bulletproof vest — and then an explosion engulfs the house, killing Melissa. On October 30, 1929, on Wall Street in New York City, a man named Lyle Atwood enters an office building and rides an elevator up to an office. There is a sudden ripple in the office, and Max enters from the future. It turns out that Lyle is Max’s partner, and Lyle is planning to stop the depression from happening. Max wants to know who Lyle is working for, and Lyie calls two security men into the office to deal with Max. Max beats up the two security men, and Lyle pulls out a gun and opens fire on Max. When Lyle runs out of bullets, Max forces Lyle to admit that he’s working for Aaron, and that Aaron has paid off a lot of other TEC agents as well. Lyle then jumps out the window. Max jumps out after Lyle, grabs him, and takes Lyle with him back to present time, which is now the year 2004, ten years after Melissa’s murder. TEC judge Marshall sentences Lyle to be immediately executed, so Lyle is sent back to 1929 and is dropped to his death from the point in midair where Max and Lyle disappeared to 2004. At TEC Headquarters in 2004, Aaron, Max, and Matuzak are showing Senator Malcolm Nelson around the TEC building. Aaron reminds everyone that people who go back in time risk coming into contact with a past version of themselves. The same matter cannot occupy the same space at the same time, because if that happens, and if it’s a person accidentally making physical contact with their past version, that person will die, and their body will disappear from the face of the Earth. Later, Max tells Matuzak that Aaron wants to shut down the TEC so no one can stop him from altering the past to his advantage, because Aaron is now running for President of the United States. Aaron’s fading campaign for president is dealt a blow when he is denied federal campaign matching funds. Just before Max wakes up, two men break into his home to kill him, but Max turns the tables and kills the two men who broke in. TEC internal affairs investigator Sarah Fielding questions Max. Max soon learns that Sarah may be on the wrong side in this. Max must travel back and forth in time to bring Aaron down…and when Max goes back to 1994 and finds out what Melissa wanted to tell him 10 years ago, it gives Max incentive to at least try to prevent Melissa’s murder.