Judge me all you want, but I really enjoyed this film. It’s got all those festive Hallmark tropes - it’s cheap, the script is clunky, and the chemistry is questionable. But I loved the time travel aspect of it, and how it all worked itself out, it was fun. You do have to question how quickly the guy seemed to accept everything in the modern world, I know he’s an engineer but a microwave must be mind-bending for someone where barely electricity exists. Cheap and cheerful, warm and cosy, I recommend this one.

As a quick salve from some of the more meaty reads I’ve had recently, I listened to a quick audiobook of the next New Series Adventure story in the Doctor Who universe. This one was narrated by Russell Tovey who has a great voice and a did a fantastic job with the different characters. I was particularly impressed with his voicing of Sebastian who was an odious character and really done well. It’s an interesting story, a sort of Hunger Games hunt style with a bit of cloning in there for good measure. Very Doctor Who, although I’m disappointed Donna didn’t seem to get too involved in the outcome. Still a fun read.

Finished off the trilogy of novelisations with this final book that covers Marty and Doc’s exploits in 1885. It’s very true to the movie, with quotable lines throughout, and only a couple of additional insights. Of the three books it’s probably the one that adds the least, but it’s always fun to be in the Hill Valley universe and I’m glad to have read it.

I’ve had this in my to-read pile for such a long time and I didn’t realise it was about travelling through time, else I would have picked it up sooner! The author seems to not want to call it time travel, which is odd to me because time travel is awesome and that is what the characters do, but hey, let’s not argue. It’s a brilliant book, jumping straight in at the start of the adventure as our hero Max joins St Mary’s, goes through training and heads out on several journeys with mixed results. There are layers of deception and romance and it’s just a really good read - and the start of a lengthy series, hooray!

I wasn’t expect much from this movie, but actually, I ended up really enjoying it. It’s a blatant copy of Groundhog Day but it kind of leans into it with the clock and everything so it’s not annoying. I love messing about with time and the chance to redo things and see what different outcomes there will be, so it was right up my street from that point of view.

I’ve read this before, of course I have. There’s no way I would have gone through the whole series before and just stopped at book eight of nine. I remember eagerly awaiting seeing how everything panned out. So I’ve definitely read it but why I failed to review it, I have no clue. And having discovered that recently, I couldn’t remember enough about it to do a catch up review… I had to read it again.

I love stories about time travel so I was very intrigued by Sky’s new TV show, The Lazarus Project, an eight part series about a covert group trying to stop the end of the world. The premise is that this group keep an eye on world events and if there’s an extinction-level threat, they press a reset button that loops time back to the 1st July.

I remember having seen this before and really liking it - time travel, you know - but I could only really remember the ending specifically. So it was quite a revelation to watch it again after such a long time. All the terrifying events that occur to these kids are so awful but you know you have to persevere to get to the bit where he can start to try and put things right.

Ah, loved this. It’s a time travel movie, so of course it’s up my street but it was also really well done. Aside from the paradox that just can’t be avoided, it’s a time travel movie that makes sense, stacks up all the way through, and comes to a really satisfying conclusion. Perfect. The kid was amazing, and riffed with Ryan Reynolds so well, and by the time it was the two of them plus the Gruffalo, I really didn’t want to stop watching.

Right. Where to start? The good: Michael Sheen is obviously amazing. The aesthetic of each carriage was incredible. The time travelling story pretty well stacked up, and I liked it. I wanted to know what would happen in each successive carriage.

Right, so, I knew this was going to be a bit of action junk food going in - Chris Pratt leading a bit of a twisty time travel action movie fighting a war against aliens so far in the future. At first, it actually went better than I thought it would. Some areas were eye-rolling, but then they would answer every plot twist question we raised and it seemed to make sense.

Mixed feelings on this one. If I’m honest, I almost gave up after the first couple of chapters but I stuck with it and I guess I’m glad I did. It’s so lovely to read, lyrical, poetry almost, a glorious glimpse of letter-writing between enemies turned friends turned lovers. But I can’t say I really followed what was going on, what the story was, where they ended up, it sort of went over my head. It was a pleasure to actually read, but I don’t know if I got anything out of it.

Any movie that involves a time loop situation is going to be compared to Groundhog Day, it just is. Thankfully, this one doesn’t fare too badly! The logic of the problem is mostly sensible, although there were a few strands left dangling. Samberg and Milioti bounce off each other really well, and I liked how differently they approached the situation. Nyles was totally worn down by it all, Sarah uses the time to learn everything she possibly can about how to get out.

Well first off it was nowhere near as bad as the Bogus journey, so that’s a good start. It was watchable and overall entertaining but I can’t say that it was actually very good. To be honest, the best bits were the bits that Bill & Ted weren’t in, which isn’t ideal. Dennis the Robot took over the spot from Death - stealing every scene he was in. And it was fun for the wives and daughters to have a good story to go alongside the main antics.

This is an enigma of a movie - I have never know a film that I loathed so much and yet had something so wonderful in it, yes, I’m talking about Death. Every scene that Death is in is brilliant, he’s a fab addition to the movie, but it just means that every scene he’s not in is a disappointment.

It’s taken me a long time to read this as it’s a gorgeous hardback coffee table style book, so I would just dip in and out every now and again. At the heart of it, it’s a week-by-week analysis of how the three Back to the Future films came together, from concept to shooting schedules, to release. There’s lots of great insight, behind the scenes knowledge, and it’s stacked full of great photographs I’ve never seen before.

I don’t quite know how I’ve got this far in my lifetime without reading this - considered the original time travel story! It’s a good one, I thought, showing great imagination but along with that grounding in science. Don’t just expect people to go along with something, at least try to make it something possible.

My obsession with time travel leads me to unexpected cultural output sometimes, and this book took me by surprise. It’s a full on action adventure, full of omg they’re changing the time lines drama, and oof this person could blink out of existence at any moment tension. I’ll admit, the finer details did get a bit clunky and confusing for me - a lot of people in the same place at the same time, and the extended family with an extensive history was a lot to take in.

I can’t believe I haven’t reviewed this one before because I first read it a long, long time ago and have dived back into it a handful of times since. It’s one of those long standing favourites, a bit of comfort reading when you’re not ready for something new. Michael Crichton is a firm favourite of mine, and this being a time travel book, it’s bound to be up there with the best. I love the writing, that it starts out quite sedately albeit with the intriguing mystery, and gradually ramping up as things get hectic and time gets tight.

I recently finished watching Russian Doll on Netflix, the show created by Natasha Lyonne and Amy Poehler, featuring the former as Nadia who relives the same night over and over. It’s Groundhog Day-style drama and although it was a bit of a rollercoaster to get there, by the end, I really loved it. Here are a few thoughts: The good thing about reliving the same time period over and over is that makes it essentially time travel and we all know that’s my favourite genre. The first episode was interesting, but I thought it dipped for the next two until Alan turned up. Once there were two of them, and they were workshopping their way towards a solution, it really picked up steam. I like that it’s not about the science at all. Although initially, Nadia wants to know how, why and what’s happening, gradually it becomes more about the humans and the relationships, what they’ve done and how they’ve got there. Sometimes it’s nice just to have thirty minute episodes of something, so you can whip through it as quick as you like. Natasha Lyonne is really, really brilliant. We all know it and have known it for a long time – she’s the best thing in American Pie, she outshone the entire ensemble cast of Orange is the New Black, so of course. But even so, I could listen to her just say cockroach every day for the rest of my life. That song. How much effort must go into picking just the right song that will be repeated over and over and stick in the viewer’s mind until they can’t remember a time before they heard it? Gotta get up, gotta get out, etc, etc. Also, omg, Paulie from Rocky showed up and all my worlds collided. Definitely give this one a watch if you have Netflix.

I mean, look. This is Bumper doing time travel. So of course I heart it to pieces. Rom com, time travel, laughs, loves, Back to the Future references, it’s almost perfect.

Wasn’t too sure where this book was going to start with but I was soon captivated, as I travelled along with Gavin to Gardenia. It’s so unusual to have a utopian fiction novel rather than the more disturbing dystopian premises that actually, in its own way, it was still rather creepy.

The first HTTM wasn’t exactly a rousing success (‘Not a great film, but moments of brilliance and certainly worth watching, if you can cope with it.’) and I wasn’t expecting the second to be any better. In fact, I was actively expecting it to be worse as the trailer looked shocking. I’m not totally sure why I even watched it, other than for that sense of completeness and because it was an easy-going watch for a wine-fuelled evening.

A collection of short stories about time travel? Heaven. This book collates old and new from across the genres to pull together an epic book stacked full of time travel goodness. I love the concept of time travel so this was right up my street. As with any collection of short stories, there are some that appeal and some that don’t, but there were far more hits than misses.

This film is confusing as a concept, before you even take a look into the details of plot and characters. Initially called I’ll Follow You Down, it was released in 2013. But we saw it called Continuum (which I thought was a TV show), released on iTunes in 2015. There was no film called Continuum on IMDB, and it took me ages to track down what was actually going on.

This was such a bizarre mixed up film that it had me thinking about it hours, even days after watching. The concept is pure genius, a chicken and egg scenario that winds itself up into some incredible knots. I loved watching it all unfold, and enjoyed the 40 minutes of storytelling at the beginning - an incredibly brave way to kick off a film.

Neither of us had realised there’s a new entry in the Terminator series coming soon, but after watching the trailer to Genisys, we realised we had some work to do to catch up. I watched the first film a long time ago, and although I liked the film, some dodgy CGI ruined it for me. We watched that one again before moving on to this, the second.

Less like TimeRiders and more like Tomb Raiders, this edition of the series has some significant story updates with just a smattering of time travel thrown in. This book really started to make me question some of the time travel logic - something you can’t do too much of in any story of the genre - but ultimately you just go with it and enjoy the ride.

It’s been a while since I delved into the world of the TimeRiders - I’ve been saving them up so as not to have to hang on too long for the final installment. With book nine only a few weeks away, I opened up the seventh installment, slightly nervous about what was in store. The idea of the TimeRiders somehow finding themselves involved with pirates seemed somehow far-fetched, but actually it was really well done.

We have been looking forward to this one for ages, and for some reason it’s been available to pre-order on iTunes for soooo long without being up for rental. So it’s been staring us in the face everytime we log in. In all honesty, we should have just bought it and got it over with.

Naturally, my obsession with time travel led me towards this book but I thought it was an interesting take on the sci-fi trope, putting it into a slightly different context and genre. This time, we’ve got more of a rom-com feel going on, with our protagonist visited from the future and told that history has taken a bit of a wrong turn - things need to be corrected.

Any book that has time travel in is going to appeal to me, and I was quick to pick this one up as soon as I saw it. The story itself started off pretty slowly, it was quite hefty going getting through the setup of the university itself, the time travel programme, and what happened when a professor at the university got lost back in time. There was a lot of emphasis on cookies, and cheese, and it felt like it took too long to get going.

I was looking forward to this, a time travel movie is always going to get my attention, and if you combine it with the good things Richard Curtis has done, then you should be in for a treat! As soon as it was over, my initial feeling was that it had been a good film. But gradually, as the minutes ticked by, I changed my mind. There were heaps of inconsistencies in terms of the science of time travel but you don’t go into a Curtis film expecting it to be scientifically accurate. You expect witty dialogue and brilliant characters, and that’s exactly what you get.

It took me a couple of attempts to get into this one, but the words ’time’ and ’travel’ on the front had got me interested. The story follows a journalist who goes to interview someone about the 1950s and ends up in that time period. It takes her a while to adjust, but she finds herself adapting to life decades ago, and as you might imagine, she learns lots of lessons about herself and about life to bring back with her when she returns to the present.

I was surprised by this film for two reasons - one, that it was brilliant and two, that it had escaped my notice up until this point. A time travel style action adventure with Tony Scott at the helm and Denzel Washington on form. It was a bit slow to get started, but once it was rolling, it was so good.

After the film, I think I err more on the side that the first IS better than the second. They’re almost the same film, so the original has to have the edge, and the second has some even less savoury stuff in there. Anyway, there’s so much to love about this. Mustafa, ill-tempered seabass, Scott’s evil tendencies, and heaps more. We had quite a good time ripping Liz Hurley’s performance… I’m pretty sure she thinks she’s in a James Bond film, putting in her best performance. Bless her.

It’s been a while since I read the previous book in this young adult time travelling extravaganza, so I was worried I wouldn’t remember anything that had happened before. Thankfully, there are plenty of nudges and reminders throughout the book - it’s a complex business this time travel stuff, we need to relive odd bits and pieces here and there to keep track!

Overall, I really enjoyed it. Lens flare aside, it was beautiful to look at, arty but not overly so. The acting was great, dialogue strong, and the concept a great one. I’ve seen heaps of complaints about plot holes and paradoxes, but mostly I can put those aside and enjoy the story.

The fifth installment in this time travelling adventure, and things are starting to become far less fun and much more serious. This outing also breaks the mould again - rather than Liam heading back to fix things whilst the others wait and watch, they all end up jumping about time all over the place.

Really enjoyed this one. The series continues to grow on me, although it continues to be not quite for my reading tastes whilst being a subject matter that I adore. This one felt a lot more serious than those that went before, not in terms of the level of peril our characters were in but more in philosophical thoughts of the world they’re in.

I started this one immediately after finishing the second book in the series, and got stuck in. They are such page turners, and the time travel is so enticing that I read it in just a few hours (not all at once). I wasn’t quite so keen on how many other characters were brought into the picture in this one. It’s fun to see the time travellers interacting with others, but having to convince people about time travel over and over isn’t as much fun.

I read the first book of this series a while back and although I enjoyed the time travel subject, I wasn’t completely sold on the book itself. However, I was always going to give the second one a go and when I couldn’t decide what to read off my list, I thought I’d head back to my favourite sci-fi concept.

I did very much enjoy the concept and the story, and there were only a few bits that grated. Choosing Hitler seems like quite an obvious subject for time travel, which isn’t bad, but is perhaps overused. Having said that, if it gets people interested in history, then it’s probably a good thing. Some of the next books in the series also feature well known periods, and it’s probably a good way to get people involved in the story.

There are no arguments that this is the weakest of the three movies by a long way, but the little inside jokes and repetitions from so much time travelling are really good. There are lots of little things that you need to be aware of and will make you chuckle if you’re paying attention. It’s just a shame the DeLorean was smashed to smithereens at the end.

If I was faced with all three movies and was only allowed to pick one, this would be my favourite choice. I like that it has both the future and the past in it, and all the coincidences and repeat sequences from the first are brilliant. I can also say a lot of the lines along with it, which is annoying for anyone watching with me, but great fun for me!

It looks so good in HD. When you compare it with the terrible trailer, the difference is stunning. If only you could buy movies in HD from iTunes, I would snap up all three of them. I love that I am watching this film for about the fiftieth time, and I am still noticing things. Like the ice cold car, and the pink bits on Doc’s radiation suit. LOVE IT.

There was far too much swearing, and it was all a bit gross for me, but even so, I would watch it all over again for two reasons. 1) The Hot Tub Time Machine moment. I could watch that all day. 2) The moment when I realised it was George McFly. I can’t believe I didn’t know until the end, and when I realised, it totally blew my mind. Not a great film, but moments of brilliance and certainly worth watching, if you can cope with it.

Despite the fact that this film is so very dated, and the special effects are nothing to write home about, it did strike a chord with me. The time travel element was good. However, I got a bit bored by the ‘just won’t die’ element of the Terminator. A bit like the slasher films when they always get back up again. Still, I’ll put Terminator 2 on my list.

There are no other films out there like this. It’s one of a kind, unique. With the benefit of over ten years on the market, it’s also become a cult classic, one of those seminal films that you have to see. I don’t always enjoy Bill Murray in films, but this one just works.

Although not a day to be curled up inside, I felt like watching some films. I thought instead of wasting the weather, I could manoeuvre the television and sit in the sunlight. Now, you should all know that I’m quite a big Queen fan, if not you obviously haven’t been reading this journal for very long. I was recommended to watch Highlander, the film which ‘Who Wants To Live Forever’, my favourite song ever, is famous for. When I was in the video shop last, I could only think of Braveheart, which I was informed at a rather loud volume later, was completely different. So, today, I picked up Highlander (the guy from Holby City’s in it!!) and also Timeline.