In Time

In the Future, people never age past 25, all cars were designed in the early 1970s, and time has replaced dollars as currency.  In Time is a familiar story, a poor guy from the bad part of Time and a rich girl from the good part of Time, go on a Robin Hood style crime spreed to help the poor and the disenfranchised. Amanda Seyfried and Justin Timberlake and the rest of the cast is young and good looking and always a minute or so away from dying.  It seems that everyone could be an immortal, but where you put…

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Salt-Missing The Cold War

So what to do when you have a bang up cold war story, but the good old USSR has been dead for lo these many years?  Well, you just add one part Manchurian Candidate, one part Bourne Identity, and one part The Boys From Brazil.  Viola!  Salt is a nice spy story where the USSR wants to rise from the ashes and a sleeper agent has been waiting thirty years to strike, and by the way-that sleeper agent is not only super human but a hottie as well. Make no mistake, Salt is just a Star Vehicle for Angelina Jolie. …

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