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Countdown to Inception, Part V: The Prestige

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 [...]

Countdown to Inception, Part III: Insomnia

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 [...]