MOVIE REVIEW
Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel (2009)
Lionsgate
Richard Curtis has a lot to answer for. This does not apply to “Blackadder,” the most amusingly misanthropic show ever. Nor does it apply to his charity work with Comic Relief and the astounding amounts of money it has raised. But it does apply to “Four Weddings and a Funeral” and everything that followed it. Not only the subsequent films he has written, but also those he inspired, “Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel” included.
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MOVIE REVIEW
Timecrimes (2008)
Magnet Releasing
“Timecrimes” can in the strictest sense be considered a work of science fiction, as its story gets wrapped up in the complications and paradoxes of time travel. However, writer-director Nacho Vigalongo’s interests skew less towards working within the constraints of any particular genre and more towards playing with narrative form itself. This is a movie, like “Run Lola Run,” that’s primarily about the filmmaking process, particular the ability of the director and screenwriter to play god, confounding expectations and rewriting the rules within the universe they’ve created.
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