So, what did we learn today? That Back to the Future III wasn’t Mary first rodeo into the whole time travelling shenanigans.

But yeah, this was a nice little movie with some neat ideas that are for the most part, well executed and exploited. We basically have many of the tropes of the subgenre but this time, the traveler in question is HG Wells himself (nicely played by Malcolm McDowell), and he must stop none other than Jack the Ripper, who uses Wells time-traveling machine he has on his basement (as you do) and goes on the loose in 1979 San Francisco, continuing his reign of terror, though I guess now he justifies himself by using WWII and Jimmi Hendrix…

High concept time travel adventure, focusing on HG Wells as he pursues Jack the Ripper to modern times. There's no real attempt to make the time travel aspect make any sense - early on in the film, the time machine manages to make a jump in time and cross continents aswell as the action relocates from London to San Francisco for reasons that don't really make any sense. The sci-fi element to this isn't too important - it's all about the concept and the characters really. The film does the whole 'fish out of water' thing as our hero finds himself in 1979, marvelling at all the modern technology and not understanding things etc. It's all rather quaint but moderately…

Time After Time is like comfort food that I haven’t had in a very long time. Back in the early days, when I first crossed the threshold to my twenties, I’d consume it like McDonald’s; not particularly nutritious but tasty, filling, and easy to get a hold of.

This re-watch was a double-delight, as I had recently watched The Time Machine, which acts as one of two direct sources of inspiration for this time travelling tale, the other being the equally Victorian non-fictional mystery of Jack the Ripper. First time director Nicholas Meyer must have been enamored by the period, as just previous to the film he had penned the Sherlock Holms pastiche The Seven Per-Cent Solution.

The gist is,…

Looking for the perfect crowd pleasing film laced with action, adventure, romance, suspense, and comedy with originality to boot? Look no further than Time After Time.

Time After Time has one of the most insanely original plots to hit the cinemas since or before it came out: Famous author of War of the Worlds and the Time Machine, H.G. Wells (Malcolm McDowell), invents a time machine in 1893. Unfortunately, that machine falls into the deadly hands of Jack the Ripper (David Warner) who uses it to travel to 1979. Now, H.G. Wells has to pursue The Ripper and stop him from starting another killing spree in a whole new decade!

This film is by no means perfect. There are many…

“Ninety years ago, I was a freak. Now, I’m an amateur.”

Sometimes a film can have a good premise, an interesting setting, and a mostly good cast and still be a tad inert. Time after Time is fairly entertaining but could have been better. Having H. G. Wells (Malcolm McDowell) pursue Jack the Ripper (David Warner) from 1893 London to 1979 San Francisco sounds intriguing, and writer-director Nicholas Meyer contrasts the two eras well but constantly interrupts the flow of the narrative for an obligatory romantic subplot between Wells and bank clerk Amy Robbins (Mary Steenburgen). Wells tells his London friends at the beginning of the film that a socialist utopia will come about in three generations, so imagine his…