Time travel meets found footage in 'Project Almanac'

One of the stranger aspects of “Project Almanac” is the way it spends long stretches of time showing the group working on the time machine without giving the audience any idea how the thing actually works. By the time it's up and running, David is

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.

Time travel is familiar movie territory; time travel as produced by Michael Bay and distributed by Paramount Pictures, that's something else. That's also how you'd describe Project Almanac, the new found-footage film in which 

'Project Almanac', the upcoming low-budget found-footage time travel tale produced by Michael Bay, gets a new set of TV spots.

Project Almanac is the kind of movie where the characters are fully aware of other movies like it. That's never been an unusual idea, because if you think about it, you'd be one of those characters, too. “Genre savvy” is what it's