Christopher Nolan’s Inception shares a lot of similarities with Tarsem Singh’s The Cell*. It’s a highly ambitious story dealing with entering people’s minds and has grand and stylized visuals, and a harrumphing, doom-impending score by Hans Zimmer that could easily be confused for Howard Shore’s work (Along with The Cell, Shore writes music for most [...]
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On the 1987 Burt Reynolds exploitation thriller Malone.
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Saturday, July 17th, 2010
Tags: Adam Lippe, Batman Begins, Blade Runner, brainwash, CGI, Christopher Nolan, Cillian Murphy, cityscape, Cliché, Dark City, Dileep Rao, Drag Me to Hell, Ellen Page, film, Halo, Halo 2, Hans Zimmer, Hollywood, Howard Shore, Inception, Insomnia, James Bond, Japan, Jennifer Lopez, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ken Watanabe, Kevin Smith, Losing My Religion, MacGuffin, Martin Scorsese, McGuffin, Memento, Michael Caine, Mike Figgis, movie, movie review, New Line, Ouija board, PG-13, R.E.M., RegrettableSincerity.com, Remake, sequel, serial killer, series, Shutter Island, spray tan, Tarsem Singh, Terry Gilliam, The Bourne Identity, The Cell, The Dark Knight, The Fall, The Matrix, Timecode, Tom Berenger, Tom Hardy, Vince Vaughn, Warner Brothers, Zabriskie Point
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Inception
Saturday, July 17th, 2010
Tags: Adam Lippe, Batman Begins, Blade Runner, brainwash, CGI, Christopher Nolan, Cillian Murphy, cityscape, Cliché, Dark City, Dileep Rao, Drag Me to Hell, Ellen Page, film, Halo, Halo 2, Hans Zimmer, Hollywood, Howard Shore, Inception, Insomnia, James Bond, Japan, Jennifer Lopez, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ken Watanabe, Kevin Smith, Losing My Religion, MacGuffin, Martin Scorsese, McGuffin, Memento, Michael Caine, Mike Figgis, movie, movie review, New Line, Ouija board, PG-13, R.E.M., RegrettableSincerity.com, Remake, sequel, serial killer, series, Shutter Island, spray tan, Tarsem Singh, Terry Gilliam, The Bourne Identity, The Cell, The Dark Knight, The Fall, The Matrix, Timecode, Tom Berenger, Tom Hardy, Vince Vaughn, Warner Brothers, Zabriskie Point
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A podcast with Nash Edgerton, director of The Square
By Adam Lippe
Australian stuntman Nash Edgerton made his first feature, The Square, back in 2008, but it was just released in the US. The film is a twisty noir that takes place in a small, insular town, similar to Henrik Ruben Genz’s Terribly Happy (which also got a podcast dedicated to it). I interviewed Edgerton along with[...]
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On Watchmen:
At the funeral of the conflicted, narcissistic, and mean-spirited superhero The Comedian, each of what appears to be ten different people get their own extremely detailed flashback to their interactions with their fallen friend. As the camera slowly moves past each character that had their screen time, eventually stopping at whom I thought was the priest, who then gets five minutes to look to his past, I kept waiting for the dirt and the coffin to get their fill in too.
