When you itch your chin, wring your hands, scratch your nose or increase your swallowing, DR. CAL LEIGHTMAN knows you’re lying. And he doesn’t just think so – he knows so. Whether it be family, friends or complete strangers – he knows when they’re holding something back. More accurate than any polygraph test, he is a human lie detector.

Dr. Cal Leightman heads up a private agency contracted by the FBI, local police, law firms, corporations and private individuals when they’ve hit a roadblock on their searches for the truth. Joining him are the foremost experts in the field of behavioral psychology: DR. GILLIAN FOSTER is the doctor’s professional partner and intellectual counterpart, a master of deception equally comfortable with lying and concealing her emotions; the other is Dr. Leightman’s lead researcher WILL LOKER who says everything on his mind and seemingly lacks the ability to lie. RIA TORRES (Monica Raymund), the newest member of the team, uses her natural and uncanny ability to read body language to catch the clues that her professional partners miss.

After the first two episodes I am liking this show and have added a season pass to my Tivo. It seems like if you can figure out who is lying then the crime is solved but the show, not unlike real life, is more complicated than that. Some times the guilty people are telling the truth and the innocent people are lying. But just why and what they are lying about is the puzzle. This is a smart show.

Marvel made some good choices in this movie. The directing, writing and acting were all a step up from the previous incarnation. This movie ignores any previous work and starts the story from scratch, but unlike most comic book movies it disposes of the origin story by the time the credits are finished. Instead we start the story 5 years after Bruce Banner (Edward Norton) had his run in with gamma radiation. He is now living in exile in a very cinematic favela in Rio (supposedly a different city or some strange reason in the movie). Banner is looking to get rid of the monster, but it is no surprise to the audience that he does not. But it is Norton that anchors this movie with help from Liv Tyler, Tim Roth and William Hurt.

There is plenty of action but there are also humorous spins of famous lines like “Don’t make me angry. You won’t like me when I’m angry”.

My recommendation is to see this movie before it leaves the big screen. The chase scene in Brazil alone would be a reason to see this movie in the theatre.