Filmmaker Jay Cheel tells the stories of two men and their obsession with time travel—deriving from pure curiosity in one case, tragedy in the other. Inspired by the 1960 adaptation of H.G. Wells’s ...

In Jay Cheel's absorbing and frequently amusing documentary How to Build a Time Machine, Ron Mallett and Robert Niosi are two men going about the same process in very different ways. Mallett is a ...

Eschewing DeLoreans, Terminators and hot tubs, Jay Cheel's documentary takes a refreshingly different approach to time travel than most moviegoers are used to. Part science doc and part ode to ...

Have you ever made a mistake that you wish you could undo? Correcting past mistakes is one of the reasons we find the concept of time travel so fascinating. As often portrayed in science fiction, with ...

Time Machine chronicles two men's obsessions with the past. HOW TO BUILD A TIME MACHINE (Jay Cheel). 82 minutes. Opens Friday (July 15). See listing. Rating: NNNN Jay Cheel’s Beauty Day mined our ...

Ronald Mallett has dedicated a majority of his life to finding a way to travel through time — and while one may assume his passion was spurred by movies like “Back to the Future,” Mallett’s motivation ...

Films We Like presents the theatrical premiere of HOW TO BUILD A TIME MACHINE, a non-fiction science fiction film from director Jay Cheel (BEAUTY DAY) that follows two men as they set out on a journey ...

Jay Cheel’s Beauty Day mined our nostalgia for 90s cable-access lunacy his new doc examines the pull of the past in a very different manner, following two men obsessed with recapturing it: one ...