From Time to Time

From Time to Time is a small movie about time-travel and/or ghosts.  Echoes of the past and echoes of the future.  It's not really very good, but it's not awful.  It's all about a boy during WWII who has been sent to live with his grandmother in the country, at their family estate.  Sort of "Downton Abbey: The Next Generation".  In fact, it's written and directed by Julian Fellows and stars A LOT of the same people as Downton.  Maggie Smith is the grandmother, Hugh Bonneville the man of the house, the guy who plays Tom plays a groundskeeper, and his girlfriend is played by the woman who plays his teacher gf on Downton.  Dr. Clarkson shows up as a dinne guest.  Several other non-Downton people too;  McNulty from The Wire, the Red Witch from Game of Thrones, and several other people I couldn't place caught my eye.  Other than the people watching, it's just not that great.  Solid C.

Frequencies (OXV: the Manual)

Frequencies is a strange movie, but one I really recommend.  Set in an alternate universe where our understanding of the world is based entirely on "frequencies".  Different people resonate at different frequencies.  The higher your frequency, the luckier you are, but also the less emotional.  Sort of like a very high-functioning kind of autism.

At a school for the gifted, super-high frequency Marie meets super-low frequency Zac.  The dissonance is so extreme that they can't be together for more than a minute before weird things start to happen; nature cannot abide the difference between them.

Thought-provoking science fiction, with a touch of romance, and a magical twist.  A-