Somewhere in the range between supercool and cool, Surrogates has a constant slick Magna comic look and brisk, dashing storytelling involving a futureworld where humans let their humanoid robot counterparts do everything for them in the real world. Bruce Willis is the perfect action rogue for this kind of picture, out to smash in some robot heads – which he does a couple of times....(more)

Two hundred years ago smart but ordinary people who had the gusto, if not luck, to fall in love could probably have never anticipated that there would be audiences in the future that would have sighed tenderly over their love affair. John Keats, the 1800’s poet of such treasured works as “When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be” and “Ode to a Nightingale,” fell in love with Fanny Brawne who became not just his idolized love but his influential muse....(more)

Matt Damon is at his best when he’s in disguise, not necessarily a hair and make-up disguise, but a disguise as to his true motives driving his actions. If you think about the characters he’s played, from Jason Bourne to Tom Ripley to Colin Sullivan , a corporation involved in corn flavoring in mass food products....(more)

In his own unique way of beserk cinematic splendor, Quentin Tarantino never ceases to surprise. Tarantino has countless cinematic influences and when he visually quotes from other movies he often makes it just plain damn better than the movies he is quoting from....(more)

They have arrived. They hover above Johannesburg, South Africa in a massive spaceship freight that is indefinitely stalled....(more)

The out of sequence structured "The Time Traveler’s Wife" has us wondering about the paradoxes of two different versions of the traveler – one young and one old – arriving approximately in the same space and time. The time travel movie always gets you thinking about such paradoxes....(more)

It's a strange love story with "Adam," a story of a young man with Asperger Syndrome whom for the first time has a romantic opportunity with a beautiful neighbor who is a schoolteacher. Strange and off-beat love story is probably what the studio marketing is going for while at the same time informing about the disease of Asperberger Syndrome which is akin to a high-functioning autistic person....(more)

Who’s up for Adam Sandler in a dramatic role? This reviewer is one of the very few who is up for it anytime , but Sandler’s role with "Funny People" happens to be an equally funny and dramatic role that will not likely, or at least entirely, alienate his fan base who won’t stand for Mr....(more)