"Project Almanac" (2015) is director Dean Israelite's first attempt at a full-length movie. In the film, David Raskin (Jonny Weston), a brilliant high school student, has just been accepted to MIT.

Lemme tell ya, kids these days with their smartphones and video cameras and newfangled temporal relocation devices. The latest high-concept handheld whatsit to come down the pike would be Project ...