Summit Entertainment / 2011 / 93 Minutes / Rated PG-13
Street Date: July 26, 2011
Overall Grade 
RecommendedGenres: Action, thriller
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan and Vera Farmiga
Director: Duncan Jones
Plot Synopsis: Director Duncan Jones made a stellar first impression with 2009's Moon, a stylish, gratifyingly deep science-fiction movie that favored heart and soul over flashy special effects. Source Code, Jones's much anticipated follow-up, proves that his debut was far from a fluke, blending techno-thriller and character study with deceptive ease. Shot in a clean, no-frills fashion, Ben Ripley's script follows an MIA soldier (Jake Gyllenhaal) who awakes in a mysterious capsule, with contact with the outside world limited to a video feed from a shadowy military officer (the fantastically poker-faced Vera Farmiga). As events unfold, he learns that he's the participant in an experiment that lets him relive a stranger's past life in 8-minute chunks, a process that will hopefully allow him to avert the terrorist bombing of a packed commuter train. Jones, aided by Chris Brown's wonderfully overt '80s homage of a score, wrings an impressive amount of tension out of the constantly rewinding story, with each time jump revealing another small piece of the overall puzzle, as well as deepening the relationship between Gyllenhaal and fellow passenger Michelle Monaghan. Clocking in at a just-right 93 minutes, this is a funny, tense, and surprisingly moving film that perhaps never quite reaches the ingenuity that its premise suggests. If this counts as a sophomore slump, it's of an extremely mild, very entertaining variety.
20th Century Fox / 2010 / 107 Minutes / Rated PG-13
Street Date: July 26, 2011
Genres: Suspense thriller, mystery.
Starring: Brandon Routh and Kurt Angle
Director:
Plot Synopsis: Like a James Bond of the occult--only not as suave or debonair--Dylan Dog manages to get himself in and out of trouble with finesse, while bedding a different lady with each adventure he embarks on. A self-styled "nightmare investigator," he takes on cases that normal PIs won't. Along with his assistant, Felix, a quip-spouting Groucho Marx lookalike, he tracks down some extremely dark persons (and nonpersons) for a somewhat modest fee.
Warner Brothers / 2011 / 120 Minutes / Rated R
Street Date: July 26, 2011
Genres: Action, Adventure
Starring: Paul Giamatti, Brian Cox
Director: Jonathan English
Plot Synopsis: A ragtag group of Knights Templar hold out for months against the hard-fought siege of Rochester Castle in the thirteenth Century. Set in the time of King John's signing of the Magna Carta treaty, the group struggles against the King to defend the freedom of their country. Judging from James Purefoy's bloody sword, the movie Ironclad is going to be a bloody feast!
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