
We’re officially on board for Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan’s latest mind-bending flick, Inception, set to hit theaters July 2010. We’ve been fans of Nolan’s work ever since his incredible debut flick Memento made us wonder how to play a DVD backwards, but Inception looks like its taking the director’s knack for smart, dense and uncompromising cinema to a whole new level.
Inception has a great cast — including Leonardo Dicaprio, Ellen Page, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Marion Cotillard to name a few — and, judging by the new French trailer, the film promises to be one of the most original big studio releases of 2010.
Our friends at Twitch are calling it the “anti-Avatar,” saying its “slick, intelligent science fiction that relies on concept rather than flash to engage the audience.” Couldn’t've said it better ourselves.
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It’s hard for me to get excited about something like Alice, Syfy’s twisted new take on Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. NBC and Syfy seemingly produce these modern versions of classic tales for the same reason Hollywood studios push out stale remakes and sequels – because they already have a built in audience.
And the producers don’t have to worry about coming up with an original story. All they have to do is force some contempo quirkiness into the age-old text and be done with it. (Make the flamingos flying machines! Turn the caterpillar into a hookah-smoking Harry Dean Stanton!)
Similar to Syfy’s Tin Man, its dark and tedious Wizard of Oz redo, Alice offers a bizarre retread of its classic source material. But writer-director Nick Willing (the brains behind Tin Man) smartly sets his tale in a futuristic version of Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland. And he’s created a brand new Alice too. She’s a tough twentysomething brunette who teaches martial arts and high-kicks bad guys in the face
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