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Film Review: ‘Time Lapse’

Discovering a neighbor's photographic time machine complicates life for three young L.A. flatmates in this clever fantasy thriller.

By Dennis Harvey

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The protagonists of “Time Lapse” find their ordinary young lives rocked by discovery of a machine that can somehow take photos of their apartment 24 hours hence — a find they exploit to modest benefits, but which proves their undoing. This clever, small-scale fantasy thriller has played numerous festivals over the past year, picking up numerous awards en route. It opened at Hollywood’s Arena Theater and launches on VOD May 15. Theatrical exposure will likely be modest, but the pic should continue to accrue appreciation from brainier genre fans via home format sales.

Bespectacled Finn (Matt O’Leary) is a painter experiencing the visual-artist equivalent of writers’ block. Meanwhile he’s thinly supporting himself by being building manager of the bungalow-style apartment complex where he lives with devoted, gainfully employed aspiring writer g.f. Callie (Danielle Panabaker) and their gambling-prone bartender flatmate Jasper (George Finn). She is a more cheerful sustainer of their living arrangement than the boys — certainly sullen Finn — perhaps deserve.

When older tenant Mr. Bezzerides is late on his rent, they investigate, only to find his dank apartment abandoned. More disturbingly, they find an entire wall of Polaroid-style photos he’d shot of their own picture-windowed living room directly opposite. Strangest of all, there’s a large mechanical gizmo there which, they soon suss, takes “instant” snaps of that voyeuristic perspective … a day in advance of actual events. They also find a journal in which Bezzerides worried he’d foreseen his own death — and duly discover his desiccated corpse in a basement storage room.

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“He broke the cardinal rule: Don’t f— with time,” Jasper says. But he’s also the first to “consider the possibilities” inherent in their late neighbor’s invention, not excluding financial benefits from knowing the next day’s race results. Despite some misgivings, the trio are quickly seduced down a rabbit hole in which each 24-hour period brings greater rewards from foreseeing the future—including Finn breaking his creative block by already knowing what he’ll paint. But they’re also presumably locked into making decisions that will lead to the photos’ sometimes discomfiting depictions of their immediate future.

This generates increasingly complex logistical dilemmas and interpersonal conflicts. Meanwhile, incautious Jasper’s newfound gambling success attracts interest from scary bookie Ivan (Jason Spisak) who is hardly shy about threatening their lives if they don’t bend their bizarre windfall to his will. The property’s nice-guy security guard, Big Joe (Amin Joseph), also grows suspicious of too many suspicious activities.

A first feature for helmer Bradley King and co-scenarist BP Cooper (though the latter has produced several indies), “Time Lapse” works due to both their escalating pileup of well-thought-out complications and credible character psychologies nicely communicated by expert performances. (The disintegration of Callie and Finn’s relationship provides a primary emotional undercurrent to the narrative’s principal fantastical/suspense thread.) A few late twists strike the first generic note of narrative/character contrivance, but nonetheless deliver a satisfyingly ironical denouement.

Very well crafted within a modest scale, the pic never feels claustrophobic despite largely being confined to the protagonists’ flat. All tech/design contributions are savvy but unobtrusive, never wresting attention from an ingenious narrative measured out in unhurried yet always-engaging terms.

Reviewed online, San Francisco, May 12, 2015. Running time: 104 MIN.

• Production: An XLRator Media release of a Royal Pictures and Uncooperative Pictures production. Produced by BP Cooper, Rick Montgomery. Co-producer, Sarah Craig.
• Crew: Directed by Bradley King. Screenplay, King, BP Cooper. Camera (color, HD), Jonathan Wenstrup; editor, Tom Cross; music, Andrew Kaiser; music supervisor, Andrea von Foerester; production designer, Traci Hays; costume designer, Mishka Trachtenberg; art director, Kaz Yamaguchi; set decorator, Abra Brayman; sound, Chris Hall; supervising sound editor, David Barber; re-recording mixer, Gonzalo Espinoza; assistant director, Pette Fitz; casting, Lauren Bass, Jordan Bass.
• With: Danielle Panabaker, Matt O’Leary, George Finn, Amin Joseph, Jason Spisak, Sharon Maughan, David Figlioli, Judith Drake.

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Movie Review: Time Lapse (2014)

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If you were presented with the opportunity to see into your future, would you take advantage of it? What kind of effect would this knowledge have on the way you live your life day-to-day? How would your interactions with your friends change? Would these changes be positive or negative . . . and for how long would you have control over what comes next?

These exact questions confront friends and roommates Finn (Matt O’Leary, “ The Lone Ranger ”), Callie (Danielle Panabaker, “ Piranha 3DD ”), and Jasper (George Finn, “Just Before I Go”) in Bradley King’s Time Lapse . Working as building managers for an apartment complex, they help tenants with everyday tasks like toilet malfunctions and plant watering, and become concerned when one of the tenants disappears. Mr. Bezzerides is late on his rent, his car is collecting parking tickets, and his newspapers haven’t been brought inside. When they enter his apartment, they discover a wall covered with Polaroid pictures of their own living room, each documenting their activities for days and days on end, including days when the room was empty. There’s also a strange contraption they realize is a giant camera pointing out the window, and they notice a new Polaroid sticking out of it — a photo of their empty living room with a knocked-over coat rack in the frame. Confused, they decide to check out Mr. B’s storage unit, hoping to find clues about the camera; instead, they discover the burnt corpse of the missing man. Completely unnerved and frightened, they return to their apartment to determine their next steps. When Callie accidentally knocks over the coat rack, and they realize the camera is actually taking pictures of scenes 24 hours into the future, their predicament becomes much more complex.

Jasper, a compulsive gambler, convinces his roommates to stick out the situation to see what develops (pun intended), and, for a while, things go swimmingly: Finn, a struggling painter, regains his inspiration as well as his affection for Callie; Jasper begins making steady, successful bets with his bookie, and Callie finds some new self-confidence as Finn’s muse. But, alas, things turn sour as Jasper’s increasing paranoia and unending winning streak tips off his bookie. Ivan (Jason Spisak, “ Piranha 3D ”) appears with his muscle Marcus (David Figlioli, “ I Know Who Killed Me ”) in tow and forces Jasper to reveal the source of his success. Ivan takes over control of the camera, and the roommates’ lives snowball towards chaos.

What’s refreshing about Time Lapse is its focus on the psychological aspect of forbidden knowledge and the impact on a close-knit friendship. Once the roommates discover the secret of the Polaroids, it’s hard for them to resist the temptation, as it probably would be for anyone. What’s especially interesting is how tangled their control over the situation really becomes. They make a pact early on, jokingly at first, that they won’t break the cardinal rule of time travel — don’t try to change the future. However, as the pictures become more and more foreboding, they struggle with the obligation of recreating the scenes depicted in the Polaroids. The obvious solution seems to point towards making different decisions in order avoid the predicted events, but then they remember Mr. B, the dead tenant, whom they believe tried to change his future and was punished.

The hows and whys of the future-telling camera’s function are irrelevant to the plot, and the story and acting are engaging enough to foster acceptance of this fact. While some of the early photo situations are pretty predictable, the tension created as the threesome gets closer and closer to picture-time each evening is actually rather effective. There are times you think they just won’t make it in time, or that one roommate will ruin the future for the other two. Additionally, as the film continues, and the psychological tension gets stronger and stronger, the resulting emotional explosions don’t always come in the forms you’d expect.

Written by BP Cooper in collaboration with writer/director Bradley King, Time Lapse is a pleasant surprise and festival darling of a small-budget film. The story ponders intriguing questions about the nature of fate and free will, and while we’ve all seen many films (both dramatic and comedic) that warn against trying to change the future, they don’t all postulate that we may be intentionally bending our free will to match our fate. Are the roommates actually at the mercy of fate, or is fear driving them to fulfill events they truly could change if they tried?

Overall, Time Lapse takes a fairly simple premise and stretches it into a film that works on a number of levels — believable interactions between characters, simple-but-engaging situations that build tension, and a great little ending that’s pretty satisfying. The film may not be hugely ground-breaking, but what its developed is certainly worth a look.

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June 16, 2015 @ 11:29 pm Ruger

Saw this popup as a vod choice. Suppose I’ll give it a watch now.

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Time Lapse Review

If there’s one constant rule echoed throughout all time-hopping thrillers, it’s that even the tiniest alteration to existing events could have catastrophic consequences. You know, the Ashton Kutcher effect – er, I mean The Butterfly Effect. It’s a real thing (if we’re to believe science fiction), yet dimwitted movie characters continue to ignore the warnings of previous cinematic follies and preachy college professors alike.

Bradley King’s Time Lapse is the latest film to challenge the notion of pre-determined paths and unalterable futures, but he does so through the lens of a souped-up Polaroid camera bigger than a refrigerator. It all starts when three friends go to check on one of their tenants after a missed rent check, where they discover a large machine and a wall of photographs taken of their living room. Some show Finn ( Matt O’Leary) painting, others capture his girlfriend Callie ( Danielle Panabaker) at more intimate moments, and the rest star their gambling-addict best friend, Jasper ( George Finn). But when the machine spits out a picture of something that hasn’t happened yet, the group suddenly realizes that each picture represents a tiny window into the future. Turns out their resident Mr. Bezzerides ( John Rhys-Davies) wasn’t just a loony old scientist, and his latest invention might change three people’s lives forever.

From here, King and co-writer B.P. Cooper introduce the rules of Time Lapse.  According to Bezzerides’ left-behind journal coupled with some astute assumptions, the group determines that if you try to alter the pictures in any way, you end up a charred corpse. Bezzerides’ last known communication ended with him remarking about his own death being caught by the camera, so he sets out to try and change the events at hand. The gang finds his corpse, burned badly, so they immediately mutter the golden rule of time travel: don’t fuck with time. This is essentially Jasper’s catch phrase for the entire movie, and it explains his mental state as tensions begin to boil between the three roommates.

But, like any curious souls who might become tempted by a machine that can essentially predict the future, each character eventually uses the pictures for their own personal advantage. Jasper immediately starts rigging greyhound races, Finn unlocks his creative mojo by seeing paintings before he creates them, and Callie starts focusing on her writing career while banking money from Jasper’s winnings. This is where conflict arises, because Jasper’s bookie Ivan ( Jason Spisak)  doesn’t believe in never-ending streaks of luck. He ends up paying Jasper a visit, learning about the magical future-predictor, and demands a cut of the action. Well, in proper thug form, he demands 95% of the action – something that eats away at Jasper.

For all intents and purposes, nothing important happens outside of the trio’s house, sans the few times we visit Bezzerides’ abode to pick up a picture. We quickly learn that yes, vulnerable mortals shouldn’t f#ck with time, especially when a self-appointed house arrest sentence is part of the plan. Finn and Callie quickly find themselves at a strange crossroads in their relationship, because while Finn becomes more passionate about his artistic abilities, Callie finds herself being ignored more and more. This situation only worsens when the machine ejects a picture of Jasper and Callie kissing one night.

The whole Three’s Company scenario seems a bit ambiguous from the start, but once the love-triangle action kicks off, Time Lapse hits a wonderful stride of palpable, awkward relationship dramatics. Ivan’s violent tendencies add a much-needed sense of danger, but we can’t help waiting for the ticking time-bomb that is Callie and Finn to explode with the inclusion of Jasper’s ever-unraveling sanity.

Then again, King and Cooper’s story does feel a bit convoluted, because it’s Jasper who first warns us not to fuck with time (sorry for reusing the term, but they’re not my words!), yet what do all three of them do? Fuck with time. Admittedly, it’s out of safety at first because the machine’s working capabilities aren’t fully comprehend, but manipulating time still classifies as “fucking” with it to me. Jasper offers conflicting opinions every step of the way that are fueled by his own greed, and while George Finn does a fine job morphing into the film’s antagonistic force, his predicament seems avoidable around almost every turn. Even his daily winning should have raised a red-flag – that’s Gambling 101. If you go to a casino and win seven straight days in a row, pit bosses will begin to ask question. Can you imagine how a thuggish bookie would react?

With that said, Time Lapse is still a perfectly freakish thriller that puts a new spin on time-travel mindfuckery. It’s not perfect by any means, and the logic could use a little tweaking when Jasper starts rambling, but the trio of actors sport a watchable chemistry that turns from friendly to possibly deadly thanks to the biggest camera known to man. Between Matt O’Leary’s continued ability to polish his leading-man chops (something he also does in Stung ), Danielle Pannabaker’s cutesy guile, and Finn’s brash reactions, Time Lapse  somehow manages to make a story about Polaroid snapshots curiously interesting – an achievement in its own right.

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Directed by Bradley King

Once you see the future, you can't look away.

Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures 24 hours into the future and conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop.

Danielle Panabaker Matt O'Leary George Finn John Rhys-Davies Amin Joseph Jason Spisak Sharon Maughan David Figlioli Judith Drake Mark C. Hanson

Director Director

Bradley King

Producers Producers

Kim Carney B.P. Cooper Rick Montgomery Sarah Craig Ted Marsden Benn Wiebe

Writers Writers

Bradley King B.P. Cooper

Casting Casting

Jordan Bass Lauren Bass

Editor Editor

Cinematography cinematography.

Jonathan Wenstrup

Assistant Director Asst. Director

Jonathan Betzler

Lighting Lighting

Jeremy Kerr

Production Design Production Design

Art direction art direction.

Kaz Yamaguchi

Set Decoration Set Decoration

Abra Brayman

Visual Effects Visual Effects

Daniel Barone Charles Roxburgh David Templin Ikuo Saito David Shorey Jeffrey Hebner Troy Taroy

Stunts Stunts

Christopher Bradley

Composer Composer

Andrew Kaiser

Sound Sound

David Barber

Costume Design Costume Design

Mishka Trachtenberg

Makeup Makeup

Kathryn Fernandez

XLrator Media Uncooperative Pictures Royal Pictures

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Review by Kat ★★★

A movie about a camera that takes photos of the future. Feels like a modern twilight zone episode. This is a low budget sci fi, with a twist ending that's smarter than I was expecting. But really terrible characters and bad acting. Overall though an enjoyable time travel romp.

-Finns art is so bad. And hes a loser douche.

-Callie, honey. You can have anyone. Why are you with this loser who has no interest in marrying you?

-Jasper you just suck period.

-Worst bookie ever.

Review by DirkH ★★★½ 3

Films dealing with time or time travel are often best served by a neat, closed circle. And Time Lapse manages to do just that.

With a premise that is very interesting, it starts off quickly by confronting our (arguably generic) main characters with the central conundrum. What if you had a machine that took pictures of the future? Our three protagonists behave like you'd expect them to and the basic plotline follows the expected path. What it cleverly does though is use the full potential of its premise by constantly having its characters doubt about just how much is predestined and if it's possible to break their own circle.

Time Lapse is a clever, extremely well paced film that ties up its loose ends really well, leading to a conclusion that fits perfectly. Definitely recommended.

Review by ChandraKanth❄ ★★★½ 1

Starts of very plain and gets complex gradually. It goes deep into character study than focusing on time travel. Ending is very much unexpected.

Review by Alexander Coreas ★★★

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Review by Steph_h ★★★★ 2

Tonight none of this will matter 

A unique spin on time travel even if some of the ways in which things start to get convoluted feel a little familiar this is a twisted good trip .. crime, love, drugs and the worlds fanciest future Polaroids ..

Review by Sienna D ★★★½

1. Does this make sense? 2. Does it even matter?

Short answers: 1. I honestly don't know. 2. Hell no it doesn't matter!

This is a great ride with a fantastic ending. I don't know what the budget was for this flick (I can't imagine it was much at all) but they did a really good job of making their little world very convincing and wildly suspenseful.

Review by Matt ★★★★ 1

"Don't fuck with time."

Like other indie films, this one was only brought to my attention because of rave reviews. The trailer looked pretty decent as well. Today, it popped up on one of the sites I regularly go to, so I decided "why not?"

Three friends, one of whom is the building manager, inadvertently discover a machine invented by a scientist. They find out that it takes pictures of their apartment 24 hours in advance. At first, they're worried and scared, then they use it for their own personal gains. However, the cardinal rule of time creeps up on them and they realize that their lives are all now in danger.

I wonder if this came out online around…

Review by Matt ★★★½

Smartly written low-fi sci-fi. I know this sounds cheesy but it was clearly made with more in the way of love for the genre and dedication from its team than it was with a large sum of cash. Everyone involved was obviously really committed, it showed.

These sorts of clever little movies that have fantastic concepts and execute them so well despite those financial restrictions reaffirm my faith in cinema and what it's possible to achieve, I truly love to see it and just wish more film fans and benefactors would.

Review by Am Y ★★★★½ 7

I hope Bradley King and B.P. Cooper team up again to make another movie because they did a fantastic job with this one. It's very difficult to make a movie involving time be coherent and logically impeccable, but they managed to do just that. On top of a clever script, there's tons of suspense and intrigue, a neat, unexpected ending, and very decent acting from all the leads. I was glued to the screen throughout, palms sweating. This small indie number could put tons of high-budget blockbusters to shame.

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was going to see this movie but last night I found a review from future Sweet T and it's shit

Review by -ˋˏ 𝐀𝐧𝐚 ˎˊ- ★★★ 2

girl what??? i think I'm either too dumb to understand half the things that happened or every person in this film had literally zero brains cells. so, okay you find a time machine that shows pictures of the future, then you try to find a way to pose for those said pictures everyday. nah that doesn't make sense because if it's the future then it's going to happen regardless of what you do... and don't even remind me of the last part/ending... i was actually hooked on until the "twist" 😭

Review by a ☭ ★★★½

Ok real talk everyone I hate movies that confuse me or make me feel dumb so this was the best movie ever made up until those final 7 or so minutes I had such a nice grasp of what was going on but then they just had to fuck my life up I hate time travel so much kill me

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• 70 Variety Dennis Harvey Variety Dennis Harvey A first feature for helmer Bradley King and co-scenarist BP Cooper (though the latter has produced several indies), Time Lapse works due to both their escalating pileup of well-thought-out complications and credible character psychologies nicely communicated by expert performances.
• 60 Los Angeles Times Martin Tsai Los Angeles Times Martin Tsai Director Bradley King and his co-writer, B.P. Cooper, manage to overcome their shoddy premise as the plot progresses assuredly and persuasively.
• 50 Village Voice Sam Weisberg Village Voice Sam Weisberg That Bradley King's debut Time Lapse half-succeeds is a small miracle.
• 50 The A.V. Club Jesse Hassenger The A.V. Club Jesse Hassenger Time Lapse provokes thought, but mostly in spite of itself.
• 38 Movie Nation Roger Moore Movie Nation Roger Moore Time Lapse is time travel thriller that flatlines, mainly because of the consistently flat performances.
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Time Lapse is a 2014 science-fiction , time-travel movie directed by Bradley King. This movie technically doesn’t have time-related glitches. Not big ones at least. Where it does have a problem is with each of the characters. The story is about 3 friends who live together. Finn (Matt O’Leary), his girlfriend Callie (Danielle Panabaker from Flash), and his best friend Jasper (George Finn, yeah Jasper’s real name is Finn). The three of them end up finding a machine in the house across which takes mysterious photos of their home. Mysterious because the photo is from the next day. Ya, the camera takes pictures of tomorrow. The movie is about how the three ordinary people go crazy within days of finding a machine that shows them their future. What makes it hard to believe is not the machine, it’s the fact that three regular fun-loving people transmogrify into completely different individuals in mere days. It’s hard to justify a transformation like that. Here’s the plot analysis and the ending of the film Time Lapse explained; spoilers ahead.

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• – Plot Explained
• – What is Callie secretly messaging herself?
• – What has happened to Mr.B?
• – Jasper loses it first
• – Kiss Jasper
• – Ivan
• – Dr. Heidecker
• – Now Kill Jasper
• – Callie Gets Caught
• – Ending Explained

Time Lapse: Plot Explained

I’m going to explain the events of Time Lapse in a chronological fashion as it makes it easy to understand. Obviously, there is going to be a ton load of spoilers here on.

Finn is an artist who has a creative block. He’s unable to find his painter’s mojo. Finn and Callie have been having problems with their relationship. Finn is a little distant and Callie is not feeling the love. Callie wants to do something about it. So, Callie sleeps with Jasper while Finn sleeps on the couch. Finn really enjoys his beauty sleep like that. Callie and Jasper are drunk and get it on. What they don’t realize is there is a Mr.B whose time-camera is taking pictures of her naughtiness. This bit of the plot is revealed only towards the end. Jasper is a dude who’s into gambling and is a consistent loser.

Finn is an apartment manager and Mr.B from across hasn’t been paying rent for a couple of months. Finn sends Callie over to Mr.B’s house to check the scene out. Callie goes over to Mr.B’s and enters his place when there is no answer (that’s the ideal thing to do – break in when no one answers your knock). Callie sees the machine and the photos. She also sees the pictures that have been taken during her naughty with Jasper. From the pictures looks like she and Jasper have been naughty many times. She wants to hide this so she removes some of those pictures. She also figures that the machine is set to take pictures at 8AM and 8PM. But Callie figures that she can keep the 8AM part a secret because she sees a picture of herself from the following morning standing with notes that read – “Knock coat stand over. Hide last week’s day photos”. She decides to hide that 8AM information to pass messages secretly to herself.

What is Callie trying to do with the secret messaging to herself?

Callie figures that Finn is very distant and she wants to bring the spark back. That is what she wants from all of this. Very nice of her to not turn to the money and buy herself a new boyfriend. Callie sees her future self giving instructions at 8AM every morning. These instructions are to help her get Finn back close to her. That’s about it. Of course that’s not all what happens. I’ll come to that later, read on.

What has happened to Mr.B in Time Lapse?

Callie comes back and tells Finn and Jasper that she’s found their photos in Mr.B’s house. The 3 of them head over to Mr.B’s figure he’s a peeping tom and get back. They return to notice that the pictures are from a day ahead. B’s journal reads that he may have seen his own death and needs to change that future. What B’s journal is talking about is the last picture. This one:

What Mr.B notices is the blood and his hat (circled in red). He thinks he’s seen a crime scene of his own death. To ensure he doesn’t die as shown by the picture he aims to change the future. This he mentions in his journal. This picture is not shown to us at this point, it comes a lot later in the film. Mr.B does mail the picture out to Dr. Heidecker. A thing to note here is that this picture he sees and sends out is taken weeks into the future. Which means the machine can take photos more than a day into the future. But that fact doesn’t get used anywhere else other than for the picture that he sends Dr. Heidecker.

The 3 of them locate a room which contains the dead body of Mr.B. He seems to be burnt while his clothes are intact. The 3 conclude that this must be because Mr.B tried to change time.

What actually has happened is while trying to get material for his machine, Mr.B has dropped that helical item on a canister of thorium gas. Mr.B dies as the result of an accident. It has nothing to do with changing the future. Again, this information is not disclosed till later in the film.

Jasper loses it first

Jasper starts using Mr.B’s hat. Jasper suggests they should start using the camera to hold up the race results so they can bet on it and win. Jasper convinces the other two that they should wait and not call the cops. The next night they have a party and Finn confirms that the machine is doing what they think it is doing. The next pic Finn sees is the trio holding up the race results for the following day. Finn also notices there is a painting on the canvas, he’s happy that he can see what needs to paint and then painting it.

The next day, they decide to not report the dead corpse and go ahead with whatever the photos show. Jasper bets and wins the race, gets money. Finn paints the painting from the photo. They go on to pose with the race winnings. Days pass and they continue posing with the race results for the camera. They bet on the races and start winning big. The picture that happens next is with Callie and Jasper kissing. This one:

Kiss Jasper

The trio are confused how it ends up happening but go ahead with the kissing anyways because they don’t want to break the pattern of the future. They believe that if they don’t follow through they are going to end up dead like Mr.B. Here’s what we don’t know as viewers at this point. The next morning Callie gets the 8AM picture that reads “Kiss Jasper for too long”. So when 8PM arrives, she follows that instruction and stretches out the kiss. She is rewarded with Finn getting jealous. Hmm, she’s smart that way, very smart.

The next snap has Jasper sitting with his bookie, Ivan, in their apartment. So now they figure they are in for some trouble. Jasper calls Ivan and results in Ivan showing up. Finn decides to leave as he’s not in the photo. Callie joins him. Again Callie follows Finn because Callie has a morning message from herself saying “Go with Finn to the car”. Ivan shows up at the house. Obviously he does, what kind of idiots bet non-stop without losing? Jasper is forced to say that he has a source and Ivan can ride his bets.

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The next photo has Finn painting Callie Titanic style with a silhouette of Jasper peeping. Callie is pissed. Ivan leaves. The next day arrives, Callie decides to pose, Finn asks Jasper to leave. Callie has already received a message at 8AM saying – “Pose for Finn”. She follows through. Finn expresses how beautiful Callie is. Callie’s secret 8AM plan seems to be working. Finn is getting back to her. Just then they realize that the silhouette is not Jasper’s but Ivan’s. Ivan and his goon find out about the machine. Ivan threatens Jasper to follow his simple instructions – post the race results day on day. Ivan takes away the photo too, so Finn can’t see a painting. Ivan is a genius of his own kind. Finn is pissed he can’t paint anymore.

Killing Ivan

The next snap that comes out the following day, Jasper takes a copy of it on his phone. When they look into the phone they see a skull, some sort of a warning. So Jasper prepares to kill Ivan’s goon. Joe, the apartment security, tells Finn that he’s become a cop. Later Ivan and goon are questioning the trio about their connection with Joe. Jasper lies to Ivan saying his goon will kill him the next day. Jasper tricks the goon to reposition himself and stabs him to death. Ivan comes back and Jasper bludgeons him to death. They clean up. The next picture shows Jasper sitting with a ton of money. Jasper figures it’s Ivan’s money. Callie receives her morning message 8AM saying – “Don’t forgive Finn”. This is again to make Finn feel a greater desire to fight for Callie. She’s on her own trip. See this is what I was talking about, two people have been murdered in the apartment by her friend and roommate. Callie is still only worried about her relationship gaps with Finn. She’s upset with the blood on her face because she gets a message about it from her future self, not because, you know, BLOOD on her face!

Time Lapse: Dr. Heidecker

Dr. Heidecker (the lady from the answering machine) pays the trio a visit and pulls a gun on them and makes them reveal the truth. They take her to the machine and show her Mr.B too. Dr. Heidecker shows them the photo she was sent. She also tells them that time didn’t kill Mr.B, the cannister of thorium did. Knowing that Dr. Heidecker is of no real use to them Jasper kills her with Ivan’s gun.

Killing, chilling

Jasper, a normal guy, an asshole perhaps, but a regular bum just becomes an ice cold killer over few days. He now knows how to kill like a pro – knife, baseball bat, gun, you name it. The other two are also not very concerned that their roommate and friend is comfortably killing people at random.

Now Kill Jasper

As Jasper decides to pose for his next pic with the money, Callie offers to go to the camera and help him get it perfect. Callie has already received a message at 8AM asking herself to swap out the day’s picture with the one that shows her making out with Jasper. Apparently in spite of the increasing body count, she still cares only about her relationship issues. Her message to herself reads “Swap photo to charades night. Kill Jasper to save Finn”. Her message to herself is to KILL her roommate, like that’s a normal thing right? But unperturbed, she goes ahead with the instructions. She swaps out the image to this one:

Callie Gets Caught

When the three meet and see the photo. Callie knows it’s an old photo but Finn and Jasper don’t. Finn wants to leave, Jasper knocks Finn out and throws him in with dead Mr.B. Finn gets out. Takes a bucket of water and threatens Jasper. The two fight, Jasper’s about to kill Finn. Callie kills Jasper as instructed. Callie puts Finn to rest and comes to put the message for the 8AM photo. Finn catches Callie and makes her explain what she’s been doing and how she has swapped the pics. Finn finally gives up and decides to leave.

Time Lapse: Ending Explained

The ending of Time Lapse shows us that Callie has a plan. She wants to put up a message saying “Don’t get caught at the window”. That way she won’t get caught and everything would be hunky dory. Basically she’s trying to say, hey, let me go back and cheat on you so that you won’t catch me cheating on you. Finn, who may be the only averagely sane person, wants to walk out on all of this. But no, Callie now pulls a gun on Finn. She still strongly feels that this mess can be reverted. Note : the mess she is is looking to revert is not the killing of Jasper, her roommate or the other dead people; she is looking to only revert her being caught by Finn. Finn still leaves, or tires to. Callie shoots Finn because, you know, if you are going to change time, might as well kill the boyfriend you are trying to change time for. Anyway there are enough dead people in the house.

Callie puts a message on the window for 8AM. The message reads “Don’t get caught at the window. Just as she’s waiting for the camera to go out. Joe the cop shows up and asks her to open the door. He finds people dead in the hall so he takes Callie away. Callie leaves peacefully because she thinks the message is going to save her. This is Predestination, the causal loop has already occurred, it can’t be changed. The message is not stuck properly and the tape gives way and the message falls. Callie tries to run back to stick the message back on but Joe drags her away. The camera takes its 8AM snap and before the image develops, it cuts to black.

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Although aided by some big ideas, Time Lapse collapses under the weight of its ambitious log line and crude script. While King’s film falters, it’s not the utter disaster it could have been, which is both a credit to the director, and a positive sign...

Full Review | Aug 3, 2023

a clever, low-budget genre flick with more ideas than money.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jul 5, 2020

Even so, among the many inexpensive indies shot around Los Angeles, Time Lapse stands out. It makes the most of its assets and never appearing to need any more than it has to tell a reasonably engrossing tale of speculative film noir.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Dec 19, 2018

Competently acted and directed, Time Lapse isn't a cinematic revelation, but it does see the future-a sobering picture of the future of today's young people, flailing in a society that seems to give them limited options.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 28, 2018

While ultimately a flawed film, Time Lapse does do what every memorable sci-fi brainteaser should: it makes you blind to the obvious.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Feb 28, 2016

It's ultimately difficult not to feel more than a little disappointed by Time Lapse's complete failure...

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 24, 2015

Its central gimmick runs out of steam pretty quickly, causing the story logic to crumble and the suspense to dwindle.

Full Review | May 22, 2015

Discovering a neighbor's photographic time machine complicates life for three young L.A. flatmates in this clever fantasy thriller.

Full Review | May 20, 2015

A great little sci-fi gem that plays with time paradoxes while adding elements of a self-contained paranoia thriller.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 14, 2015

The biggest surprise ... is how the story continues to unsettle after it ends.

Full Review | May 14, 2015

The three central actors lack warmth or even basic rapport from the start, which makes it difficult to trust their fuzzy interpretation of the time-travel rules-or, for that matter, their tolerance for each other.

Full Review | Original Score: C | May 14, 2015

A relatively contained three-hander, the main leads all deliver strong performances that are engaging and add to the tension.

Full Review | Original Score: 7.3/10 | May 13, 2015

Flat performances make this time-travel by Polaroid thriller flatline.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 13, 2015

What was a rather pedestrian "Twilight Zone" episode may have inspired this nice little fantasy thriller. That makes it well above average for time travel films.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | May 12, 2015

A nifty little cross between Primer and Shallow Grave, with a central MacGuffin that manages to maintain its plausibility until the credits roll.

Full Review | May 11, 2015

Bradley King's Time Lapse turns run-of-the-mill roommate friction into a heated mystery with the aid of a machine that takes snapshots of the near future.

Time Lapse is a funky little time-travel thriller that blends single-setting suspense with sci-fi tension, and despite some fuzzy logic, it makes for a surprisingly neat watch.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | May 11, 2015

The film becomes somewhat overwrought during its busy finale, but it's clever enough to be a candidate for cult status among genre aficionados who prize the pleasures of traditional storytelling.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 24, 2014

a paradox-filled, reflexive plot

Full Review | May 26, 2014

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'Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga' pits Chris Hemsworth against Anya Taylor-Joy. It's a blast

Some movies you feel more than just watch.

“Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” is one of those. I watched it in a theater with the volume cranked up seemingly as high as it could go, and I recommend it — when anyone stomps their foot on a gas pedal, which happens often, you feel the horsepower blasting through the speakers.

But George Miller’s latest installment in one of the more creative franchises ever also makes you feel in non-tactile ways. By the time the film has throttled its way to its conclusion, linking it to “ Mad Max: Fury Road ,” for which it serves as a prequel, it will make you feel pretty alarmed about the state of things. This is a world that’s going to hell, if it hasn’t gotten there already. Take notes and act accordingly. Maybe it’s not too late.

What is 'Furiosa' about?

We meet Furiosa, who grows up to be Charlize Theron in “Fury Road,” as a child here, played by Alyla Browne (who is outstanding), out picking fruit. Like the other films, this one is set in the Australian outback, ravaged by apocalypse. But she and her family live in an oasis of sorts, The Green Land, a secret from the rest of the world and its arid miseries.

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She is abducted by the lunatic thugs who seem to populate this world, and a riveting chase scene, with her mother in pursuit, ensues.

'Mad Max: Fury Road review: George Miller never lets up on the gas

It’s fabulous. And we learn a lot about Furiosa along the way — like when she chews her way through the fuel line of the motorcycle her abductor is riding. Eventually, though, she winds up in the hands of Dementus (Chris Hemsworth, with a big fake nose but recognizable Thor-like abs and arms), a dim-witted but showy leader who rules a bunch that are even more dim-witted than he is. (What’s the old saying? I don’t have to be faster than the tiger. I just have to be faster than you.)

Furiosa is an innocent girl when she's captured. This is the story of how she becomes the hardened, one-armed, head-shaved warrior in “Fury Road.” It involves a lot of patience on her part, as well as subterfuge and planning, but mostly it’s about hate — searing hate, toward Dementus. It is a powerful motivation.

Eventually, Furiosa winds up in the Citadel, delivered over to Immortan Joe (Lachy Hulme) and his moronic sons Rictus Erectus (Nathan Jones) and Scrotus (Josh Helman). (Miller is positively inspired in his choice of names and costumes — Black Thumb, Toe Jam and the Organic Mechanic are a few of my favorites.)

Anya Taylor-Joy plays Furiosa

As Furiosa grows older eventually Anya Taylor-Joy takes over the role, in a seamless transition. At this point she is a hardened warrior, and a committed loner, tough she finds a somewhat kindred spirit in Praetorian Jack (Tom Burke), driver of the trucks that haul supplies. We see the iconic War Rig from “Fury Road” built from the ground up (in time-lapse photography no less), and eventually Miller leads us to the story points that lead into the action of the 2015 film.

Ah, action. There is so much of it — aside from the goofy malapropisms Dementus is given to, there isn’t a lot of dialogue. Action is the language these people speak. High-octane action. (They probably couldn’t hear each other talk anyway.) Like in “Fury Road,” the stunts are spectacular. This truly is what a summer movie looks like — and yes, feels like.

“The question is,” Dementus asks, “do you have what it takes to make it epic?” Miller answers that question with a resounding yes.

'Furiosa' 4 stars

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Director: George Miller.

Cast: Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth, Alyla Browne.

Rating: R for sequences of strong violence, and grisly images.

How to watch: In theaters Friday, May 24.

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