Avoid stepping on butterflies, step into your time machine, and go kill your grandfather—it’s time for our Time Travel Movies Draft! We select favorite films from all corners of the time-travel genre, from time loops to historical shenanigans to nonsensical plot twists.

Time-Travel Movie Draft

Jason Snell with James Thomson, Glenn Fleishman, Erika Ensign, Moisés Chiullán, Annette Wierstra and Monty Ashley

Show Notes & Links

Time Travel Movies

James - Time Bandits (1981) (Incomparable 632)
Glenn - Somewhere in Time (1980)
Erika - Timecrimes (2007)
Moises - The Visitors (1993)
Annette - The Terminator (1984) (The Incomparable’s coverage.)
Monty - Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989) (The Incomparable’s coverage.)
Jason - Groundhog Day (1993) (The Incomparable’s coverage.)
James - Demolition Man (1993) (Defocused 113)
Glenn - 12 Monkeys (1995) (The Incomparable’s coverage.)
Erika - Edge of Tomorrow (2014) (The Incomparable’s coverage.)
Moises - Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020)
Annette - Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) (The Incomparable’s coverage.)
Monty - Primer (2004) (The Incomparable 153)
Jason - Star Trek: First Contact (1996) (The Incomparable 317)
James - Love Story 2050 (2008)
Glenn - The Lake House (2006) (Chick Flick Fix 43)
Erika - Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) (The Incomparable’s coverage.)
Moises - Long Weekend (2021) (The Incomparable’s coverage.)
Annette - 13 Going on 30 (2004)
Monty - Triangle (2009)
Jason - Back to the Future (1985)

Bring Out Your Dead

James - Palm Springs, Source Code, Looper, Run Lola Run, Army of Darkness, Happy Death Day, Kate & Leopold, Deja Vu, Idiocracy, Hot Tub Time Machine, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Avengers: Endgame
Glenn - Galaxy Quest, Freejack, Time After Time, Timescape (1992)
Erika - The Last Mimzy, The Back to the Futures, Donnie Darko, Terminator: Genisys, About Time, Flight of the Navigator, Peggy Sue Got Married, Frequency, Timeline
Moises - Star Trek (2009), Your Name, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, See You Yesterday, Escape From the Planet of the Apes, Men In Black 3, Cinderella 3: A Twist In Time
Annette - All the rest of the Terminator movies, Timecop, Doctor Who (The TV Movie)
Monty - Muppet Christmas Carol, The Butterfly Effect, Southland Tales, Minority Report, Tenet, Mr. Peabody and Sherman

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