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| Posted: 17 Jul 2010 06:05 PM PDT Inception - **1/2 Directed by Christopher Nolan Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page, Cillian Murphy, Marion Cotillard, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Caine Release date: July 16, 2010 A thief of dreams is one who drowns out the purities of cinema, cashing in on the big budget extravaganzas and deterring from the simplicity of storytelling in favor of an extremely intellectual web of narrative that proves to be in the long run too tedious, too sophisticated, and too savvy for its own good. Ideas are extrapolated from the likes of Freud and Jung, then are mixed with cinematic concepts spanning from 2001: A Space Odyssey, to BladeRunner and to The Matrix. All of this and more occurs in Inception, a refreshing film that seems to have forgotten how a great cinematic tale can be told with such simplicity. What is meant to confound the mind in a stimulating and energetic manner turns into a rather laborious process that gives us a contemptuous attitude towards a film that dares the impossible: it perceives colossal dreams and attempts to make them possible (key word there being 'attempt'). An exuberant imagination, even an overwhelming fury of inventive images, is displayed before us with hopes of redefining not only the sci-fi genre, but the entire panorama of cinema. The elaborate logistical demands of director and screenwriter Christopher Nolan's film is a cause for celebration only because he is audacious enough to go dream them up and apply them to his film. He conjures up an inconceivable idea that obliterates the familiar landmarks of cinema and troubles the mind profoundly, but in a way that is detrimental to his film [...]            |
| The Greatest TV Shows Ever: ‘Arrested Development’ Posted: 17 Jul 2010 11:42 AM PDT Some TV shows jump out at you from nowhere and immediately eclipse every other program you have a current interest in. The writing is sharper, the jokes are funnier, the direction is better, the actors are superior -- this, you decide, is how television should be. If you're not watching your new favourite thing you're not watching anything. With numerous other programs already clogging up your TV signal, finding a show this special is very rare. Arrested Development is one of those shows. Arrested Development is about the Bluth family, a rich, spoiled bunch who own a large property company which supports their frivolous lives. Thanks to years of dodgy dealings and acts of 'light treason' by head of the family and business, George (Jeffrey Tambor), the Bluth family now has no money and its assets are drying up fast. The main focus is on middle son Michael (Jason Bateman), who wants to keep his family together for the sake of his son, George-Michael (Michael Cera). This becomes a herculean and very often thankless task. As the old saying goes: blood is thicker than water -- and many of the Bluth family are thicker than blood [...]      |
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