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'Déjà Vu'
![Jerry BRUCKHEIMER, the producer-king of mass audience mayhem, is not in the habit of giving his films French titles, but "Déjà Vu" is in the business of confounding expectations.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2006-11/26536549.jpg "Jerry BRUCKHEIMER, the producer-king of mass audience mayhem, is not in the habit of giving his films French titles, but "Déjà Vu\" is in the business of confounding expectations.")
Times Staff WriterJerry BRUCKHEIMER, the producer-king of mass audience mayhem, is not in the habit of giving his films French titles, but "Déjà Vu" is in the business of confounding expectations. Rather than the routine Denzel Washington-starring potboiler the...Tags: Defense, Dana Andrews, Denzel Washington, Tony Scott, Crimes
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'Children of Men'
![The best science fiction talks about the future to talk about the now, and "Children of Men" very much belongs in that class. Made with palpable energy, intensity and excitement, it compellingly creates a world gone mad that is uncomfortably close to the one we live in. It is a "Blade Runner" for the 21st century, a worthy successor to that epic of dystopian decay.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2006-12/27004106.jpg "The best science fiction talks about the future to talk about the now, and "Children of Men\" very much belongs in that class. Made with palpable energy, intensity and excitement, it compellingly creates a world gone mad that is uncomfortably close to the one we live in. It is a \"Blade Runner\" for the 21st century, a worthy successor to that epic of dystopian decay.")
Times Staff WriterThe best science fiction talks about the future to talk about the now, and "Children of Men" very much belongs in that class. Made with palpable energy, intensity and excitement, it compellingly creates a world gone mad that is uncomfortably close to...Tags: Fiction, Crimes, Movies, Children, AMC (tv network)
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The importance of being Alanis
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterALANIS MORISSETTE has felt heartbreak before, as anyone who's listened to her ripped-from-life songs knows. But last year's split with her fiancé, actor Ryan Reynolds, turned out to be the big one. "I think it's the straw that breaks the camel's back,"...Tags: England, Burbank (Los Angeles, California), Los Angeles, Science and Technology, Ryan Reynolds
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Leaping forward
By Ed Park Looking backward, briefly: It went unremarked that 2007 was the year when the weirdness of time dilation hit Sgt. William Mandella. Battling the far-flung Taurans meant interstellar travel via "collapsars" (black holes); two years of army...Tags: Defense, Trips and Vacations, Los Angeles, Travel, Crimes
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Two timeless, Depression-era novels from Edward Anderson
![Edward Anderson had a strange and sad career. He was born in Texas in 1905 and grew up in Oklahoma, serving his apprenticeship as a journalist on a small paper in Ardmore, Okla. Restless, he worked as a deckhand on a freighter, plied his fists as a prizefighter, had some small success as a musician and, when the Great Depression of the 1930s hit, roamed the roads and rails, learning the life of the hobo. This crucial experience led to fiction, and to his first novel, "Hungry Men" (University of Oklahoma Press, currently out of print, but with plenty of copies available on Amazon), which in 1933 caused the Saturday Review of Literature to pronounce him the heir to Hemingway and Faulkner.](http://www.latimes.com/media/alternatethumbnails/story/2008-07/40211098-18143052.gif "Edward Anderson had a strange and sad career. He was born in Texas in 1905 and grew up in Oklahoma, serving his apprenticeship as a journalist on a small paper in Ardmore, Okla. Restless, he worked as a deckhand on a freighter, plied his fists as a prizefighter, had some small success as a musician and, when the Great Depression of the 1930s hit, roamed the roads and rails, learning the life of the hobo. This crucial experience led to fiction, and to his first novel, "Hungry Men\" (University of Oklahoma Press, currently out of print, but with plenty of copies available on Amazon), which in 1933 caused the Saturday Review of Literature to pronounce him the heir to Hemingway and Faulkner.")
Edward Anderson had a strange and sad career. He was born in Texas in 1905 and grew up in Oklahoma, serving his apprenticeship as a journalist on a small paper in Ardmore, Okla. Restless, he worked as a deckhand on a freighter, plied his fists as a...Tags: Daniel Defoe, Rex Stout, Los Angeles, Theft, Science and Technology
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'Next'
![When we first see Cris Johnson (Nicolas Cage) in "Next," a confusing new thriller directed by Lee Tamahori, he's sitting alone in a diner sipping a martini and looking strikingly like Richard E. Grant after a terrible night's sleep. Cris, we soon learn, is a sad-sack <a href="http://travel.latimes.com/destinations/las-vegas">Las Vegas</a> magician whose rather astounding psychic abilities (he has the gift of being able see what happens to him two minutes in advance) have failed to attract much of a paying audience. Consequently, he's reduced to supplementing his income at slot machines and card tables — a talent that <I>has</I>, not surprisingly, attracted the attention of casino security and a federal agent named Callie Ferris (Julianne Moore).](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2007-04/29359032.jpg "When we first see Cris Johnson (Nicolas Cage) in "Next,\" a confusing new thriller directed by Lee Tamahori, he's sitting alone in a diner sipping a martini and looking strikingly like Richard E. Grant after a terrible night's sleep. Cris, we soon learn, is a sad-sack <a href=\"http://travel.latimes.com/destinations/las-vegas\">Las Vegas</a> magician whose rather astounding psychic abilities (he has the gift of being able see what happens to him two minutes in advance) have failed to attract much of a paying audience. Consequently, he's reduced to supplementing his income at slot machines and card tables — a talent that <I>has</I>, not surprisingly, attracted the attention of casino security and a federal agent named Callie Ferris (Julianne Moore).")
Times Staff WriterWhen we first see Cris Johnson (Nicolas Cage) in "Next," a confusing new thriller directed by Lee Tamahori, he's sitting alone in a diner sipping a martini and looking strikingly like Richard E. Grant after a terrible night's sleep. Cris, we soon learn,...Tags: Russia, Jessica Biel, Lee Tamahori, Travel, Movies
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'The Matrix Revolutions'
![Once upon a time in 1999, the summer was supposed to belong to George Lucas and "The Phantom Menace," his resurrected "Star Wars" series. But after "The Matrix" hit, Lucas' future was yesterday's news. Suddenly, the action wasn't in light sabers and an embarrassment like Jar Jar Binks, but in slow-crawling bullets, high-flying warriors, latex and leather, religious allusions, postmodern <I>aperçus</I>, recycled future shock and heroes that looked like Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne and Carrie-Anne Moss. That year, the brave new world of the action movie blazed in Reeves' sunglasses, and it looked <I>cool</I>.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2003-11/10094089.jpg "Once upon a time in 1999, the summer was supposed to belong to George Lucas and "The Phantom Menace,\" his resurrected \"Star Wars\" series. But after \"The Matrix\" hit, Lucas' future was yesterday's news. Suddenly, the action wasn't in light sabers and an embarrassment like Jar Jar Binks, but in slow-crawling bullets, high-flying warriors, latex and leather, religious allusions, postmodern <I>aperçus</I>, recycled future shock and heroes that looked like Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne and Carrie-Anne Moss. That year, the brave new world of the action movie blazed in Reeves' sunglasses, and it looked <I>cool</I>.")
Times Staff WriterOnce upon a time in 1999, the summer was supposed to belong to George Lucas and "The Phantom Menace," his resurrected "Star Wars" series. But after "The Matrix" hit, Lucas' future was yesterday's news. Suddenly, the action wasn't in light sabers and an...Tags: Slavery, U.S. Secret Service, Rebellions, Lana Wachowski, Action (genre)
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'Equilibrium'
![An accidental entertainment, "Equilibrium" is a science-fiction pastiche so lacking in originality that if you stripped away its inspirations there would be precious little left. Among the referent titles that flipped up on my mental Rolodex as I watched this dystopic vision struggle to take hold were "Fahrenheit 451," "Dark City," "Blade Runner," "Children of the Damned," "Soylent Green," "1984," various Philip K. Dick freakouts and John Woo adventures and, of course, "The Matrix." Not a bad list as far as influences go, save for the fact that these are the sort of touchstones that tend to make bad imitations only look worse.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2002-12/5724004.jpg "An accidental entertainment, "Equilibrium\" is a science-fiction pastiche so lacking in originality that if you stripped away its inspirations there would be precious little left. Among the referent titles that flipped up on my mental Rolodex as I watched this dystopic vision struggle to take hold were \"Fahrenheit 451,\" \"Dark City,\" \"Blade Runner,\" \"Children of the Damned,\" \"Soylent Green,\" \"1984,\" various Philip K. Dick freakouts and John Woo adventures and, of course, \"The Matrix.\" Not a bad list as far as influences go, save for the fact that these are the sort of touchstones that tend to make bad imitations only look worse.")
Times Staff WriterAn accidental entertainment, "Equilibrium" is a science-fiction pastiche so lacking in originality that if you stripped away its inspirations there would be precious little left. Among the referent titles that flipped up on my mental Rolodex as I...Tags: Christian Bale, John Woo, Entertainment, Emily Watson, Movies
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'I, Robot'
![In "I, Robot," a new science fiction potboiler starring Will Smith, androids see and speak no evil. With humans calling the shots, however, they hear plenty. Designed along the articulated lines of wooden artists' mannequins, the robots serve their mortal masters, effortlessly performing tasks that were once the preserve of illegal immigrants and nonunion labor. But there's a kink in this machine world: consciousness. One robot has begun to reason, dream and even doubt. More disturbing, yet another robot, or maybe two, seems to have written a Hollywood script and hijacked a major studio production.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2004-07/13433503.jpg "In "I, Robot,\" a new science fiction potboiler starring Will Smith, androids see and speak no evil. With humans calling the shots, however, they hear plenty. Designed along the articulated lines of wooden artists' mannequins, the robots serve their mortal masters, effortlessly performing tasks that were once the preserve of illegal immigrants and nonunion labor. But there's a kink in this machine world: consciousness. One robot has begun to reason, dream and even doubt. More disturbing, yet another robot, or maybe two, seems to have written a Hollywood script and hijacked a major studio production.")
Times Staff WriterIn "I, Robot," a new science fiction potboiler starring Will Smith, androids see and speak no evil. With humans calling the shots, however, they hear plenty. Designed along the articulated lines of wooden artists' mannequins, the robots serve their mortal...Tags: James Cromwell, James Cameron, Cinema Industry, Science and Technology, Illegal Immigrants
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'Impostor'
Times Staff WriterA sci-fi thriller that relies more on intelligence than spectacular action and special effects, "Impostor" could not be more timely as a parable on the threat to civil liberties in a society endangered by outside forces. Based on a 1953 Philip K. Dick...Tags: Stranger Than Fiction, Mekhi Phifer, Movies, Cinema Industry, Corporate Crime
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'Paycheck'
![Ben Affleck has had such a rough year (or so I've read) that it almost seems unfair to pick on either his newest film or latest nontabloid performance. Still, in the interest of stargazing and semiotics, it does seem worth mentioning that Affleck, a movie actor of some callow charm, has recently taken to dividing his performances between lowered-chin sensitivity for his smaller, more complex roles and big-chin brashness for his more costly studio gigs. "Paycheck" is big chin all the way.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2003-12/10733934.jpg "Ben Affleck has had such a rough year (or so I've read) that it almost seems unfair to pick on either his newest film or latest nontabloid performance. Still, in the interest of stargazing and semiotics, it does seem worth mentioning that Affleck, a movie actor of some callow charm, has recently taken to dividing his performances between lowered-chin sensitivity for his smaller, more complex roles and big-chin brashness for his more costly studio gigs. "Paycheck\" is big chin all the way.")
Times Staff WriterBen Affleck has had such a rough year (or so I've read) that it almost seems unfair to pick on either his newest film or latest nontabloid performance. Still, in the interest of stargazing and semiotics, it does seem worth mentioning that Affleck, a movie...Tags: Michael C. Hall, Colm Feore, Gaming, Crimes, Movies
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A Walk in the Dark
TIMES STAFF WRITERIt took paranoid visionary Philip K. Dick to do what Stanley Kubrick could not: Get Steven Spielberg to fully cross over to the dark side. The question now is, how happy are we to have him there? Spielberg's "Minority Report" is amplified from a Dick...Tags: Washington, DC, Stranger Than Fiction, Lois Smith, Cinema Industry, Crimes
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