Anyone worried that a bigger budget, digital effects, and a less personal project might lead Duncan Jones into a sophomore slump can rest easy. The ads may make make Source Code appear to be the polar opposite of his brilliantly understated, cerebral science fiction debut, Moon, but the two films have more in common than one might think; though to go into too much detail on that point would be to spoil some of its immensely satisfying plot twists. Suffice it to say that Jones is no one-hit-wonder, and Source Code shows that he can make an effects-laden action thriller just as thoughtful and engrossing as a meditative one-man show.

One of the “other drugs” in the title of the new film by Edward Zwick is Viagra, and the movie is not unlike the little blue pill: mostly designed to coddle the male ego as it provides some erectile assistance.

Jake Gyllenhaal was frequently quoted this week when, in an interview, he declared that he “Hates preachy message films.” No one’s going to think twice about something like that coming from Dwane “The Rock” Johnson, but from someone doing press junkets for a film raising awareness about a U.S. government practice it clearly finds abominable, it’s bound to elicit a ringing chorus of, “Say What?!?!?”. Rendition is a movie so focused on its message that…

The Red and the Black, Northeast’s cozy jambalaya joint, added some more Southern flavor to their menu last night: Cackalackee (that’s “Carolina” to you Yankees) natives Mikal Evans and Sweater Weather, served up with a side of The Foreign Press. The Foreign Press aren’t exactly Southern, unless your definition of the South includes D.C. (and yes, we’re below the Mason-Dixon line), but lead singer Andy Fox’s Stephen Malkmus-style delivery has earned FP comparisons to Pavement’s…