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TIME TRAVELOGUES THAT WEAR WELL

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20020908
Author:Tom Russo, Globe Correspondent

The time-travel genre finds itself at an oddly appropriate juncture right now: It's all about looking back, to the recent DVD release of "The Time Machine," or looking ahead, to December's debut of the "Back to the Future" trilogy on DVD. Not to be overlooked, though, is some similarly themed fare available right in the here and now:

"Time After Time" (1979). Writer-director Nicholas Meyer's speculative fantasy imagines that H. G. Wells (Malcolm McDowell) actually invented a working time machine - and that he must use it to track Jack the Ripper (David Warner) from 19th-century London to ...

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