After about one minute of looking, something became obvious, a lot of the characters were pretty darn sexy. And we all know that Halloween is a great opportunity to dress in outrageously sexy outfits, smother ourselves in fake blood and call it a Halloween costume. Instead of leaving you to do that again, we decided to guide you through some of the saucier Halloween costumes inspired by the movies.

Who?Cherry Darling from Planet Terror
Why? It’s pretty cool that after Cherry loses her leg to the zombies, instead of getting a Heather Mills-esque replacement leg, she only goes and gets a gun in its place. Pretty handy for fighting off zombies and who knew that a machine gun in place of a leg could look so hot?
DIY: We would not recommend chopping off a limb for this, so you may have to just strap a toy gun (do not use a real machine gun) to your leg. Wear a red bikini, small leather skirt, and a seriously bad ass look on your face and there you have it – Cherry Darling.
Sexy rating: 7.5/10

Who? Neytiri from Avatar
Why? Well, she is pretty much naked apart from a slick of blue paint, so you can see every curve of her body. And let’s just say she’s clearly at the height of her physical fitness which is shown off by her svelte, stream-line body. Oh and those eyes, those extraordinary, hypnotising eyes…
DIY: If you have got the bod just paint yourself blue, if not you can luckily find lots of already made Neytiri costumes, or ‘sexy Neytiri’ costumes as they are called. Pop in some gold contacts, and nimbly leap about and you’ll be mistaken for a Na’vi all night.
Sexy rating?6/10

Who? Sarah Sanderson from Hocus Pocus
Why? She is billed as the incredibly beautiful sister and she is. With her long flowing hair and corseted dresses, it is no wonder she seduces everyone with her siren song.
DIY: Unless you are going to spend a lot of money on a replica costume, the best thing to do is get a red corset, preferably in velvet, a full-length matching skirt and a wavy blonde wig. Broomstick is optional.
Sexy rating? 5/10

Who? The three-breasted woman from Total Recall
Why? It’s just funny isn’t it? Although she only appears briefly in the movie, it is certainly one of the most memorable moments. And this costume would be great for both men and women to pull off.
DIY: If you don’t happen to have three breasts, you’ll have to fashion some from goodness knows where or buy some of the fake ones you can find in some joke shops. And that’s all you need, other than that, all you’ll need is some serious balls.
Sexy rating? 3/10 (one for each boob)

Who? Edward Cullen/Jacob Black from Twilight
Why? Unless you’re not human you will have noticed these two all over the place. You’re either in Team Jacob or Team Edward, so pick accordingly. Of course, it will slightly depend on how muscley you are.
DIY: For Edward, whiten your face, gel your hair up, maybe wear a small amount of black eye-liner and dress smartish, perhaps a grey or white shirt. For Jacob, just take off your shirt.
Sexy rating? 9/10 for Edward (we’re team Edward at TFR) and a 7/10 for Jacob

Who? Any one from The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Why? It’s the ultimate in camp sexiness. There’s corsets, fishnets, maids, sequins and some amazing make-up. Boys can get involved with this one too and you can all have lots of fun with it.
DIY: It’s pretty easy to cobble together a costume for any one of the characters in this film. All you really need is to let your inhibitions go.
Sexy rating? It could range from 0-6/10, we think, depending on who you go as.

Who? Alice from Resident Evil
Why? She is smart, can use a gun pretty well and is great at martial arts. And she is played by a real life supermodel, Milla Jovovich
DIY: This is one of the easiest costumes to pull off and it won’t even look too homemade. All you need is black boots and a half ripped red dress. Oh, and a massive gun and a look that says you mean business.
Sexy rating? 7.5/10

Who? Ripley from Alien
Why? Played by the legendary Sigourney Weaver, Ripley was without a doubt a seminal role and really made a difference to gender stereotypes in film. She spends most of the film looking slightly crazed and very sweaty, but she somehow manages to pull it off.
DIY: Again a gun would be great, a brown boiler suit or jump suit if you want to be a little more stylish. And oodles of sweat.
Sexy rating? 3/10

Who? Nurses from Silent Hill
Why? Normally zombies are scary looking and not remotely attractive. In Silent Hill they wear sexy nurse outfits, admittedly their heads are bandaged up, and they are covered in blood and God knows what else, but somehow they still look pretty good.
DIY: For this you need the smallest nurses outfit you can find and plenty of fake blood. You can find quite a few tutorials online about how to do the head bandages to make your perfect homemade costume.
Sexy rating? 6/10

Who? Donnie from Donnie Darko
Why? Well he’s brooding and slightly mysterious and when he wears that skeleton costume with the grey hoody, pwoahhh.
DIY: Get black leggings and t-shirt and paint bones on with white paint or alternatively buy a ready made outfit from a fancy dress shop. Put your hood up, act a bit crazy and Donnie’s your uncle.
Sexy rating? 8/10

Sitting down to watch anything to do with Star Wars makes most geeks excited. It’s by far one of the most creative, well-known sci-fi franchises of all time, if not the most well-known. George Lucas has, in his infinite wisdom, also decided that the Clone Wars, set between Episode II and III and covering one of the most important military campaigns in the galaxy’s history, is ripe for storytelling.

The opening double-bill, which hit Sky Movies HD at 5:30pm on October 23rd for anyone who’s eager to see it, didn’t focus solely on Anakin and Obi-Wan. Instead, we’re exposed to an area of the Clone Wars that many are curious about: the training and mental disposition of the clones themselves. Created from the DNA of now-dead and legendary bounty hunter Jango Fett (father of the infamous Boba), they are created and trained for war from birth.

The episode follows Domino Squad, a team of five clones who can’t work together. Arrogance, over-reliance on orders – the team’s not gelling together well, and with bad test results they face possible disposal. The clones are well fleshed out, if a little generic in character. Fives is, predictably, the fifth member, Heavy holds the heavy weapon, and Echo is the one always repeating orders. It’s for kids, so this allows them to differentiate, and it works well, though it’s hard to tell them apart visually.

Visually speaking, however, the art style is incredible. Lines so well drawn they look almost like real-life sculptures themselves, the show’s characteristic way of portraying everyone from the clones to Twi’Lek commander Ahsoka Tano, look well-defined and move smoothly and realistically. Well, as realistic as psychic knights who jump twenty feet higher than normal people can, anyway.

The story helps to establish the ongoing saga of conflict between Anakin and the forces of good, versus Grevious, the metal general, and his forces of evil. The double bill is a fantastic start to the series, and with a lot of themes based around teamwork, perseverance, bravery and commitment, not to mention loyalty, kids will walk away with a lot of good morals. For the adults, it’s sometimes a little patronising, but anyone who’s spent an afternoon with Dora the Explorer can tell you that much.

It’s a great way to introduce a whole new generation to Star Wars culture and lore, and one we at TFR severely hope continues down through the next few generations. Star Wars is a classic, and by removing live-action, writing simpler plots and using a lot of themes that encourage kids to do better, we’ll soon have another ton of people putting “Jedi Knight” on the UK Census in ten years. Until then, we’ll make do with Clone Wars, and it’s always welcome, in our book.

Most of us are more than happy to settle down and take in a buddy-cop film. The themes of friendship, comedy (sometimes dark, sometimes absent), and the spirit of justice is more than enough to drive a basic plot through a few glass windows and out of the building just before it explodes. There are a lot of top tens about on the web, but here at TFR Towers, we find that it’s best to go with films following a “common sense” rule: one person on the poster, does not a buddy-cop film make. Here’s our pick of the best, though feel free to interrogate us in the comments section.

1. Bad Boys

The cops? Mike Lowery, a cocky ladies’ man played by the ever-likeable Will Smith, and the straight-shooting, rather dour Marcus Burnett, by the calmer Martin Lawrence.

Arresting qualities? Smith’s fantastic use of humour bounces well off Lawrence’s stoic resolve and stern demeanour, and the pair make for an interesting tag-team as they take down the thieves of $100m worth of heroin.

2. Starsky and Hutch

The cops? Serious, over-worked never-toes-the-line David Starsky (Ben Stiller), and reckless, blonde-haired and broken-nosed Ken “Hutch” Hutchinson, played by the loveable Owen Wilson.

Arresting qualities? Owen Wilson and Ben Stiller have been together in a shedload of films, and while Wilson’s blue-eyed swagger makes for a great Hutch, Stiller makes the film even better with his Meet the Parents-esque neurotic persona as Starsky.

3. Die Hard With a Vengeance

The cops? Super-cop John McClane, played by the intimidating Bruce Willis, teamed up with Samuel L. Jackson’s stubborn, prejudiced and excellently-named cop, Zeus Carver.

Arresting qualities? Well, for one, it’s a Die Hard film, and as we all know they set the bar when it comes to action films. The pair, initially distrustful of each other, bond and go on to take out terrorists with an efficiency only achievable by McClane himself.

4. Hot Fuzz

The cops? Simon Pegg’s super-flawless Nick Angel, and Nick Frost as Danny Butterman, the bumbling son of the police chief.

Arresting qualities? Hot Fuzz is, quite simply, one of the best British comedies of its generation. Following the perfect cop (Pegg) who’s been sent to the tiny postcard village of Sandford for showing up his colleagues, he soon finds that life in the countryside isn’t as quiet as it seems. Hilarious, well-written, and some fantastic actors make for Britain’s finest buddy-cop film.

5. Se7en

The cops? Brad Pitt stars as city rookie David Mills, and Morgan Freeman’s William Somerset is partnered with him on his last case before he retires.

Arresting qualities? Pitt and Freeman are two of the best actors of the last fifty years, and their interactions, at first timid, but then more trusting and accepting of each other, makes for an interesting team when they track down Kevin Spacey’s haunting “seven sins” serial killer.

6. Rush Hour

The cops? Comedy dream team material: Jackie Chan as Asian super-cop Lee, who’s temporarily partnered with the sceptical but witty Carter, played by the equally witty Chris Tucker.

Arresting qualities? Jackie Chan always had a knack for making some of the most impressive martial arts choreography in action cinema seem hilarious and unintentional, and combined with Tucker’s sharp wit and cheeky delivery of his lines, this film (and its two sequels) are worth the effort – the credit-roll outtakes are the icing on the cake.

7. Training Day

The cops? Hardcore law-man Alonzo Harris (Denzel Washington) and rookie, Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawke).

Arresting qualities? The interesting portrayal of Harris’ corrupt methods and whether or not they’re justifiable as a means to an end involving handcuffs and medals is, to say the least, intriguing. Not to mention guns, serious cops and reliably great acting work from both leads.

8. Tango and Cash

The cops? Sly Stallone’s Tango and Kurt Russell’s Cash make for some fantastic banter, and of course, Stallone’s trademark warbling, mumbling, serious delivery of his lines. Perfect for a man on the beat.

Arresting qualities? Imagine making the bust of a lifetime, only for you and you buddy to be framed, imprisoned, and hunted by the very man you busted. This is the life of Tango and Cash, and it’s a whopper of a thrilling tale about justice and trust in the American judicial system.

9. 48 Hours

The cops? Nick Nolte plays Jack Cates, a cop and the sole survivor of a cop massacre, forced to recruit convict Reggie Hammond (Eddie Murphy in his first-ever film role) in order to catch another criminal, this time, one on the loose.

Arresting qualities? Well, aside from Eddie Murphy’s obvious comic potential, it’s an interesting tale of the initial distrust and later teamwork between a white, straight cop and a black convict, deftly dealing with racial stereotypes with comedy and thrills throughout.

10. Lethal Weapon

The cops? Homicidal cop Riggs (Mel Gibson) is forced to team up with the rather more formal, calmer version of himself, Murtaugh, played by Danny Glover.

Arresting qualities? Riggs and Murtaugh are comic inventions of the highest calibre, and the film is one of the funniest, most entertaining cop films of all time, the pride of many a cop-fan’s film collection. There’s nothing like watching two men fumble their way through the hunt for a drug lord as they attack each other’s attitudes, and it features Mel Gibson at the height of his career, whilst Danny Glover is witty and extremely well chosen for the role.

In order to tell the somewhat mysterious tale of this rather bizarre look into the “life” of talented actor Joaquin Phoenix, we’re going to need to jump all the way back to 2008. At the time, Phoenix was a darling of cinema: having played country music superstar Johnny Cash in Walk the Line, the evil Commodus in Gladiator, and one of my favourite films as a child, Parenthood, starring under his former name of Leaf as the troubled teen, Garry.

He could do no wrong, and audiences fell at his feet when red carpet time rolled around. He was intelligent, well-dressed, serious about his work and dedicated to his craft. But then something very odd happened, and the entertainment press had the biggest collective “WTF” moment since, well, ever. Joaquin Phoenix, it transpired, was retiring from acting at the top of his game, to pursue a different career: rap music.

This put the press in an awkward position, so we can only imagine what it must have been like for those living close to the actor. His rap career was a complete disaster, and he disappeared for some time, only to resurface bearded, scraggy, and reclusive. The world had lost another actor to the pressure of fame, it seemed. However, it was around that time that a poster appeared for I’m Still Here, appropriately titled given his current celebrity status.

It’s unclear, even now, whether it’s a serious documentary about a near breakdown, or whether it’s a giant hoax in which director Casey Affleck and Phoenix have pulled off a seriously impressive PR stunt that took two years of Phoenix’s life and almost cost him his reputation. The trailer, which shows everything from his rap concerts to what could be anything from a pillow-fight to a night-time brawl in a hotel room, is almost as nutty as his current facial hair.

The film is due to be released on September 10th in the US, and will be available as a video-on-demand after only two weeks, on September 24th. Sadly, no UK distributor has yet picked this one up, so people may need to either wait, head to the US to see the film (you’d be surprised), or wait – no film’s worth breaking the law for, folks. But it begs the question – is this an incredibly sly bit of viral marketing, using the over-eager press and film fan-base to circulate the film before release, or are we due to see the heartbreaking self-destruction of a truly talented man? Time will tell, but a supportive public will hope desperately for the former. The trailer is below.

If you, like many of us, grew up watching the increasingly insane antics of Steve-O, Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera and co., then you’re as excited as we are to see the new trailer.

“3D is the future of movies”, proclaims Time magazine. That quote would’ve had more impact had we been unaware the trailer was for Jackass 3D, but it was hilarious to see the build-up to what I knew was going to be a minute solid of ridiculously dangerous, scary, brave and impressive stunts.

By now we’re sure everyone knows the drill. Bam’s parents are getting pranked, Steve-O is experimenting with human excrement, and of course Wee Man is falling over laughing (my money’s on him being launched somehow, maybe towards the screen). It’s a brilliantly immature use of 3D technology, and we can’t wait to see how it’ll work out.

Thankfully, the entire cast are back for the third film in the series, which is a relief. Big fans of the films and the MTV show know that the cast each have their own special personalities that bring something different to the many stunts, and this is likely to be no different.

It’s certainly an interesting use of TV, and one that their die-hard director Jeff Tremaine found out would be appealing as a Jackass idea in late 2009. Long-suffering cameraman Lance Bangs also felt that making the film was “amazing”, and like “looking through a viewfinder”. I’ve got to admit – it’s nice to hear what it’s like from someone who isn’t James Cameron.

The difference between Avatar and Jackass 3D? Well, that calls for a list, don’t you think?

• Avatar: a serious sci-fi drama influenced by Pocahontas and many other white-man-meets-native love stories.
• Jackass: a group of men throwing themselves down stairs, launching port-o-potties into the air, and screaming with laughter every five minutes.
• Sam Worthington: handsome, strong male lead with a serious face and serious acting skills.
• Johnny Knoxville: Converse-wearing spiky-haired lunatic with a penchant for humorous self-inflicted violence.
• Pandora: alien world, a land of minerals and opportunity.
• America: an alien world (if you’re British), a land of minerals and opportunity.

The film itself is released on November 5th, and should hopefully ignite another wave of Jackass interest that lasts well into their twilight years. However, here at The Film Review, we have a simple policy for those tempted to try this out – nothing, and I repeat, nothing, is more fun than watching someone else do it, on Jackass. Don’t do it yourself – though they may be idiots, they still have staff and a fairly good idea of what they’re doing, alongside around a decade of experience. Enjoy the trailer!

Withnail and I

Considering his performance in this film, you’d never guess Richard E. Grant was a teetotaller.

Knocked Up

It takes some serious beer goggles to get Katherine Heigl into bed with Seth Rogan

Blind Date

What a light-weight… Kim Basinger is the perfect blind date – until she has half a shandy, that is,

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Just don’t try and drink Karen Allen under the table.

Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Man’s Chest

What do you do with the drunken sailor? Let him sleep off his hangover while you burn all his rum, if you’re Keira Knightley anyway.

Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist

We’ve all been there… Getting so drunk that you retrieve your chewing gum from a toilet bowl… Maybe not then.

Leaving Las Vegas

Giving Amy Winehouse a run for her money, Nic Cage spends the entire movie more hammered than a nail at a carpenters convention.

Old School

Don’t let Will Ferrell’s party-loving ‘Frank The Tank’ loose on your mini-bar.

Almost Famous

It might have been a bit more than booze that made Billy Crudup’s Russell Hammond stand on a roof-top and declare that he was a ‘golden god’, but it was still a lesson for us all.

Hancock

Superman is likely to avoid booze as Kryptonite, but Hancock is never one to pass on the bottle.

Back to the Future 3

If only it was that simple in real life; a bit of ‘wake up juice’ (tabasco sauce, cayenne pepper, chili peppers, onion and mustard seed) and Doc Brown is sobered up and hangover free.

Push

13-year-old Dakota Fanning gets mortal. Make you feel old? Let’s just hope it wasn’t method acting.

The 40 Year Old Virgin

From a 13-year-old drunk to a 40-year-old… There’s no such thing as maturity when booze is involved.

Superbad

Punch drunk love? Jonah Hill’s Seth gets so blotted that he knuckles the girl of his dreams.

E.T

Wouldn’t it be so much cheaper if you could get passively sloshed in real life? When E.T gets tanked up, so does Elliot – with just the point of a finger.

Mean Streets

By attaching a swinging camera to Harvey Keitel’s Charlie and using a wide-angle lens, Martin Scorsese managed to perfectly recreate the feeling of being smashed. A bit too closely.

Weird Science

A bit too much bourbon and Anthony Michael Hall’s Gary becomes an early model for Kevin Federline.

Sideways
Exactly the reason why you’re meant to use the spit bucket when wine tasting.

Observe and Report

Get your chick this drunk and it’s dangerously close to necrophilia when you get back to the bedroom.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Some people would argue that you have to be drunk to get all the way through this flick, but the inebriated person in question here is Brad Pitt’s man boy – someone who definitely doesn’t need ID when getting served.

Casablanca

Humphrey Bogart’s performance is proof that getting slaughtered on a Friday night is no new thing.

Could it be that having six children has added a few extra years to the 33-year-old? Whatever the case, age is bound to be a touchy subject; she hits her next birthday this Thursday…  Just don’t’ mention Megan Fox as a potential replacement – unless you want Jolie raiding your tomb!

Zooey Deschanel

Her deadpan performances in films such as Mumford, Almost Famous, The Good Girl and The Yes Man have made Deschanel a professional scene-stealer. She’s almost too good as the sarky sidekick to ever has as a lead.

Kristen Johnston

She captivated the audience in Third Rock from the Sun and stole the spotlight from Carrie and co during a brief cameo in Sex and the City, so it’s not surprising that it was Johnston won the popularity battle in Bride Wars.

Emily Blunt

Poor Anne Hathaway… It was always going to be impossible to eclipse Blunt in The Devil Wears Prada.  After filming their first scene together, Meryl Streep commented that she should be given the film carbon copy rather than steal the movie.

Danny McBride

He might be known as Will Ferrell’s protégé, but McBride has proved that he has his own lead potential after Pineapple Express and Tropic Thunder – so much so that he landed his own show, Eastbound Down.

Penelope Cruz

Undoubtedly the best thing about Woody Allen’s Vicky Christina Barcelona, it is no wonder Cruz scooped an Oscar. There are not that many actors of her stature who’d be willing to take a supporting role, so she must’ve been confident that she could steal the show.

Sean Penn

The New York Times had its finger on the pulse when it named Fast Times at Ridgemont High’s character  Jeff Spicoli the film’s scene-stealer – the actor was Sean Penn.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

With the talent that was in Superbad, there was practically a raid with all the scene-stealing that went on. However, it was Mintz-Plasse’s hilariously geeky Mclovin that we all quoted afterwards.

Bobb’e J. Thompson

He might have been just 12 when he made it, but Thompson managed to out-wise-crack mentor Seann William Scott in last year’s Role Models.

Efren Ramirez

Jon Heder might have had us transfixed in Napoleon Dynamite, but it was Efren Ramirez’s Pedro who we all voted for in the end.

Jack Black

Jack Black has never exactly been one to sit back and blend into the wallpaper, so High Fidelity’s John Cusack couldn’t have been too surprised when co-star stole every scene he was in playing obnoxious but hilarious store employee Barry.

Russell Brand

Judd Apatow, Jason Segel and their crew might have the golden touch, but it was Britain’s very own Brand who wowed in Forgetting Sarah Marshall – even if he was playing himself.

Mark Warlberg

Leonard DiCaprio, Matt Damon and Jack Nicholson might have been as solid as ever in Martin Scorsese’s masterpiece but it was Wahlberg who stole the show with both the dialogue and delivery.

Javier Barden

No Country for Old Men’s Anton Chigurth didn’t so much steal scene as order presence. Viewers ended up too terrified of his chiller killer to avert their eyes.

Allison Janney

Whether playing the part of an extended family member (Juno) or neighbour (Drop Dead Gorgeous), Janney is always a welcome addition to the main essemble.

Rachel Bilson

Her screen-time grew by the episode in The OC, but Bilson always best portrays the girl you’d really like to have next-door – even if she did turn into a neighmare for Zac Braff in The Last Kiss.

Scrat

OK, so this entry isn’t officially an actor, but the sabre toothed squirrel (voice by Chris Wedge) is Ice Age’s answer to Finding Nemo’s Dory or Bambi’s Thumper. The film would be nothing without him.

Frank the pug

Frank the talking pug (voiced by Tim Blaney and played by real dog Mushu), with his potty mouth and penchant for cigars and singing, was without a doubt the real star of Men in Black 2

Chris Tucker

Normally more of a limelight hog than scene-stealer, but Tucker still stole the show from Bruce Willis in The Fifth Element

Cuba Gooding Jr

First he had the audacity to pinch Tom Cruise’s ‘show me the money’ thunder in Jerry McGuire (winning an Oscar on the way), the Gooding made sure he was the only good thing about the abomination that was Pearl Harbor.

John C. Reilly

A professional scene-stealer, Reilly can command the attention whatever mode he plays in – comic or tragic. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Boogie Nights, The Perfect Storm, Chicago, Gangs of New York, Magnolia… This list goes on.

A similar reboot certainly worked for Batman – the Year One prequel did wonders for the franchise. Whatever the case might be with a Die Hard adaptation, one thing for sure is that 55-year-old Bruce Willis certainly won’t be donning his white vest this time.

1 Get a medical condition…

Based on Audrey Niffenegger’s best-selling novel, the star of this summer’s The Time Traveler’s Wife (released 14 Aug) suffers from Chrono-Impairment – a  medical condition that propels him, unwillingly, from one point in time to another – normally at times of anxiety.
Key requirement in time travel: Stress and a medical condition.
Past of future: Both.
Rule: You can’t take anything with you into the future or past.
Flaw in science: Surely the circular nature of the main characters relationship would have had to have unfolded in real time to be able to become circular?
Conceivability: 7 out of 10

2 Invest in a flux capacitor…

Back to the Future’s Emmett ‘Doc’ Brown came up with his theory for time travel after bumping his head; after calculating the workings of a ‘flux capacitor’, he integrated it into the DeLorean – a vehicle that could travel up to 88 mph and contain 1.21 gigawatts of power, originally powered by a plutonium-based nuclear reactor (eventually replaced by a lightening rod and later still by garbage). The rest is history – or is that future?
Key requirement in time travel: A souped up Delorean.
Past or future: Both.
Rule: When you change the past the future ‘instantaneously’ changes.
Flaw: What happened to the Marty from the new future – does he have the same memories as the old one?
Conceivability: 5 out of 10

3 Read some childhood diaries…

The star of The Butterfly Effect suffers from blackouts during periods of anxiety, thus a psychologist recommends he start keeping a detailed journal of his life to help him deal with his inexplicable memory loss. Years later, when he’s turned into Ashton Kutcher, he starts rereading his journals and discovers that by doing so he can travel through time.
Key requirement in time travel: Reading.
Past or future: Past.
Rule: You can change the past, but it doesn’t always lead to the future you desired.
Flaw in science: Ashton contentiously tries to change different pasts to get just one right – surely only one attempt is necessary?
Conceivability: 2 out of 10

4 Sprinkle yourself with magic dust.

While most of us wish we were younger, the teen star of 13 Going on 30 longs to be ‘thirty, flirty and thriving’. With the help a closet, dollhouse and some magic wishing dust, she not only gets her wish but also finds herself miraculously transformed into Jennifer Garner (what more could you wish for?).
Key requirement in time travel: Magic wishing dust.
Past or future: Future.
Rule: Be careful what you wish for.
Flaw in science: A 1987 girl would never choose a 2004 wardrobe.
Conceivability: 1 out of 10.

5 Utilise the technology of the Ministry of Defence

After the Ministry of Defence learns that Dr Evil has developed a time machine, it sends the star of Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me back to 1969 with its very own travel device – a pimped up and ‘groovy’ convertible Volkswagen New Beetle, obvs.
Key requirement in time travel: A Beetle with ‘Destination’ imputer.
Past or future: Past.
Rule: ‘Don’t worry about the science and just enjoy yourself’.
Flaw in science: Erm, let’s not even go there.
Conceivability: 1 out of 10.

6 Become the core of future society

Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure opens in the distant future where an apostle is preparing a time machine disguised as a phone booth (aren’t they extinct already?) to travel back to 1988 and ensure that Bill and Ted pass their history paper and thus continue to make the music that will later become the centre Utopian society.
Key requirement in time travel: A phone box.
Past or future: Past.
Rule: ‘The clock in San Dimas is always running.’
Flaw in science: Disorder rules – characters meet themselves in different times and past figures appear in the present, yet the future remains intact.
Conceivability: 2 out of 10.

7 Learn to fly, like, really fast

Superman circles the Earth at such a tremendous speed that he breaks the time barrier. As time starts to go backwards, so does the Earth, which means he can travel back far enough to stop the earthquake created by Lex Luthor.
Key requirement in time travel: The ability to travel beyond the speed of time.
Past or future: Past.
Rule: The neutrons and protons in the molecules that make up mass all move in the same direction.
Flaw in science: Some say the kinetic energy to stop and reverse the earth in the time shown would boil the oceans.
Conceivability: 3 out of 10.

8 Leave it to the cyborgs

A cyborg called The Terminator is sent back in time from 2029 to 1984 to destroy humanity by killing the future mother of its future saviour. Only living tissue or an object covered with such living tissue can be sent through time, preventing the Terminator from bringing any advanced weaponry.
Key requirement in time travel: An egg-shaped bubble.
Past or future: Past.
Rule: It’s an ontological paradox
Flaw in the science: Why not just send back all kinds of Terminators to 1800 and have them take over then?
Conceivability: 5 out of 10.

9 Planet of the Apes

Planet of the Apes’ Charlton Heston goes on a mission to space in the late 20th century. Travelling faster than the speed of light means that the craft has journeyed 320 light years from Earth in just 18 months. However, due to relativistic time dilation, around 2,031 years have passed by back home – where they find that apes have taken over.
Key requirement in time travel: A space ship and electromagnetic storm.
Past or future: Past.
Rule: There’s no rule – the medium that caused time travel is not defined so there’s no pattern.
Flaw in the science: Radical breakthroughs in physics are required before we can propel large ships at meaningful fractions of the speed of light.
Conceivability: 6 out of 10.

10 Create a black hole

In the year 2387, the galaxy is threatened by a volatile supernova, which Star Trek’s Spock plans to destroy by creating an artificial black hole. Before the mission is completed, however, the supernova destroys a planet and the space ship gets caught in the black hole’s event horizon before being propelled into the past.
Key requirement in time travel: A space ship and black hole.
Past or future: Past.
Rule: If you travel back in time and change something, you don’t alter the future but break off a completely alternate reality.
Flaw in the science: How can Old Spock still exist in the past after it has been altered?
Conceivability: 7 out of 10.

*Unlike the studios, I’m no scientist so won’t be held responsible for any inaccuracies.