Time travel meets found footage in 'Project Almanac'

Woe be unto humanity if teenagers discover time travel. That's the main takeaway from the entertaining new found-footage thriller 'Project Almanac,' in which a quintet of adolescents find a time machine, and do exactly what a 

Doug Kolk is live in Hollywood at the premiere for the Michael Bay produced film 'Project Almanac'. This segement aired on the KTLA News at 10p.m. January 27, 2015. Filed in: Entertainment · KTLA 5 News on Facebook.

“Have you seen the movie 'Looper'?” one teen asks another in “Project Almanac.” It's one of countless shout-outs to time travel films, a dubious tactic if yours pales in comparison. In his feature debut, director Dean Israelite takes the found-footage

Bay has asked studio Paramount to remove brief clip of 1994 US Air Force accident from upcoming film Project Almanac.

The only thing noteworthy about its use in "Project Almanac," which follows a group of high school misfits who invent a time travel apparatus, is that this particular found footage film isn't really a horror film, but a sci-fi thriller.