"This time travel...fries your brain like a egg..."

If you need a dose of real, intelligent science fiction to get you through the cold autumn nights, look no further than  Looper, starring Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Directed by Rian Johnson (Brick, The Brothers Bloom), Looper is one of the best sci-fi films in ages. Given the time travel nature of the plot, there's very little I can reveal here, short of the common knowledge setup that Gordon-Levitt plays a younger version of Willis in a fantastic performance. There are loads of surprises in Looper that I wouldn't dream of spoiling, but trust me - this one's a keeper and evokes films as diverse as Blade Runner, District 9 and Twelve Monkeys, among others. The notion of time travel inevitably seems to call up matters of the heart and the flickering embers of hope - those themes are just the beginning here. Looper gives us a vision of the future that unfortunately isn't hard to imagine - told convincingly with small, vivid details. The men behind the future are as old as crime - and love - itself. Don't miss this one.