Michelle Monaghan and Jake Gyllenhaal in Source Code.By John Thomason‘Tis the season for romantic science-fiction parables about attractive young men prohibited, through their stories’ elaborate conceits, from accessing the brunette beauties who are ready and willing to jump their bones.In Source Code, which opens wide Friday, Jake Gyllenhaal and Michelle Monaghan … [Read more...]
Film review: ‘Brothers’ a shattering story of the cost of war
Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal in Brothers.By John ThomasonThe release date couldn’t be more fortuitous. Hitting theaters nationwide the week Barack Obama announced his plans to send an additional 34,000 troops to secure Afghanistan, Jim Sheridan’s family drama Brothers is at once timely and transcendent.An explosive and sobering reminder of the emotional and mental cost of … [Read more...]