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 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 [...]
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 [...]
Memento By and large, it must be said that Memento isn’t terribly demanding on an intellectual level. While it indeed wrestles with weighty themes of identity, reality, and perception, there’s also more approachable angles of grief and revenge onto which an audience can more easily latch. Not that the cinematic pop-philosophising is at all too [...]