Matthew R. Reis: Film and TV Critic

Boom goes the dirty bomb (Now on DVD) 4 Stars Blog Exclusive! What if you had only minutes to live? What would you think, feel and do in that short amount of time? Well Jake Gyllenhaal (Brothers) knows he has to make every second count in order to save the city of Chicago from a terrorist attack just 8 minutes in the future. As Jake finds out in "Source Code" anything is possible except failure. Army helicopter pilot Col. Colter Stevens (Gyllenhaal) awakens aboard a Chicago bound train with no memory of how he got there. Feeling confused Stevens rushes into a bathroom and looks in the mirror. What he sees is terrifying. He realizes that he’s inside somebody else's body, but before he digests this information a bomb rips through the train as easily as a knife cuts through butter. As everyone perishes Stevens is transported to a futuristic, metallic pod stowed away in a remote arctic wasteland. He’s tightly strapped into a seat that is surrounded by video monitors. In...

h2oh NO! 3 1/2 stars Blog exclusive! There's a new sheriff in town and it's Johnny Depp! As the title character Rango Depp must bull-shit his way through a old western town run by lizards and other scaly life-forms. But dastardly, viscous "vermin" are out to make sure Rango doesn't fulfill his destiny. This is a must see movie. But why's that? Sadly, I didn't watch it in 3D (and no that isn't sarcasm; I am a big proponent of the technology), but nevertheless Depp's performance, the animation style and the "adult" humor cleverly slipped into this children's movie make this one a winner. Also go see "Rango" because it is similar to "Fear and Loathing..." another Depp flick in that it is structured in a much more experimental fashion than other animated movies I have seen as of late. This experimental style coupled with the desert locale brings to mind "Beavis and Butt-Head Do America." The makers ...