Science-fiction is often so terribly difficult to get right on screen because its makers get bogged down in minutiae, trying to craft expansive, futuristic and/or alien worlds, or over-explain the processes that differentiate and separate their plane of reality from that of the present day. “Source Code “, thankfully, is not one of those movies. It grooves, it pulses, it entertains — deftly balancing smarts with a streamlined aim to please. The sophomore effort of director Duncan Jones ( “Moon “), the high-concept techno-thriller is kind of amusingly impatient with some of the nitty-gritty specifics of its own conceit (“Every second explaining things puts more lives at risk!” one character…

According to Variety.com, Bradley Cooper has signed on to star in the suspense thriller “Dark Fields” for Relativity Media. Neil Burger is directing, from a screenplay adaptation by Leslie Dixon. The project is based on a novel by Alan Glynn. The film is about a man named Eddie (Cooper) iwho is a down-and-out writer who comes into possession of a drug that greatly boosts his mental faculties, helping him become enormously successful. However, he soon discovers that there is a dark side to his newfound power and success. The film is set to start filming in Spring 2010. Stay tuned to Shockya.com for more on “Dark Fields”. By Costa Koutsoutis…