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...takes advantage of defenseless January moviegoers. I refer to those loyal souls who have assiduously seen all the late-year releases that are now bathing in Oscar-nominated glory, and are looking for a weekend diversion that doesn't involve the Rambonctious Sly Stallone. They see Diane Lane's name on a movie called Untraceable and think it might be a thriller for adults, an Unfaithful with a little murder on the side. What they'll get is Saw 4-1/2, another slice of movie gorenography, this time with the patina of social comment...
...Lane plays Jennifer Marsh, an FBI agent in Portland, Ore., who tracks cybercrime: mostly identity theft and porn downloads. A new site is different: the work of a sickie who shows a kitten on the screen, then, shortly thereafter, one dead kitty. This guy is smart, deranged and, even with all the resources at Marsh's command, untraceable...
...condolences to some fine actors. Colin Hanks, Tom's very promising son, does decent work as one of the FBI agents, but like so many other characters in the movie, he has to play his last scenes tethered in torture. And we will not forgive Lastplaceable for making Lane - at 43 a near-30-year veteran of movies and a fine natural actress who, I wrote not long ago, "has never had an ungorgeous day in her screen life" - look run-down, worn-out and generally kind of awful, even when she's not hanging upside down above a threshing...
...Salt Lake City. Participants were observed "driving" in medium- and high-density traffic, and were told to obey the 65 mph speed limit and use turn signals; some were allowed to talk on their hands-free phones. The study was designed so that traffic would periodically slow in one lane, while another lane opened up. Researchers found that cell-phone users switched to faster-moving lanes about 20% less frequently than other drivers. They were less adept at keeping up with traffic flow, and it took them 2% to 3% longer to complete the commute than drivers who weren...
...research shows that we have limited cognitive resources to multitask," says Arthur Kramer, director of the Biomedical Imaging Center at the University of Illinois. When demand for our "neural resources" exceeds supply, the result is decreased performance - scanning less attentively for pedestrians, for example, or failing to maintain a lane or speed...