Inception Having watched and reviewed all of Christopher Nolan’s feature length work prior to Inception (his seventh film), I must confess that I feel far more qualified to offer my thoughts on this movie than I would have a mere week ago. This whole project has given me a fair amount of both insight into [...]
The Dark Knight Ever the critical darling thanks to films like Memento and the successful Batman relaunch, it was arguably The Dark Knight that solidified Nolan’s reputation as a commercial darling too. With the release of Inception just two short days away, it would seem as if Nolan has attained the status of a legendary [...]
The Prestige Few movies are capable of diving audiences quite like The Prestige, the sort of movie with no startling defects except for a single miscalculation egregious enough to ruin everything. While beautifully staged and executed with all the theatricality and deception one might expect from a story of feuding magicians, Nolan overestimated just how [...]
Batman Begins Eight years after Schumacher’s “bat nipple” debacle, a reboot of the Batman character seemed well due. And as had been the case with Spider-Man and X-Men, a more acclaimed and educated director than usual was selected to handle the reinvention. Nolan threw out the garish nonsense that left audience’s of the previous two [...]
Insomnia After two features which made a habit of distorting time and perception, Nolan’s third outing is a decidedly more straightforward affair. Except for flashing glimpses of past events, there is no sequential warping or colour coded chronology. Instead, Insomnia unfolds like most any other hollywood crime thriller, telling the tale of a pair of [...]