New issue of NOW, new set of interviews: This week, I talk to the effusive, charming and surprisingly tall Michelle Monaghan, who has the odd job of playing the same eight-minute scene over and over again in “Source Code”, and the similarly endearing Jessica Pare, with whom I caught up this week while she was promoting the home-video release of “Mad Men: Season Four”.
I also had occasion to dig out my TIFF interview with James Wan and Leigh Whannell for the theatrical opening of their semi-successful “Poltergeist” update, “Insidious”.
But wait, there’s more! Specifically, a review of “Essential Killing“, which opens at the Lightbox today, and a look at the 2011 iteration of the always-intriguing Images Festival. Because it just wouldn’t be spring if the city wasn’t clotted with niche festivals.
(Why, yes, they are working me to death! Thanks for noticing!)
The trailers for Source Code remind me as much of Quantum Leap as Groundhog Day.