Inception will be showing Thursday, Aug. 11th at 6:00pm (please note the earlier start time to accommodate the longer running time)
Inception is a
2010 science fiction heist thriller film written, produced, and directed by
Christopher Nolan. The film stars a
large ensemble cast that includes Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page, Joseph
Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Ken Watanabe, Tom Hardy, Dileep Rao, Cillian
Murphy, Tom Berenger, and Michael Caine.
DiCaprio plays a professional thief who commits corporate espionage by
infiltrating the subconscious of his targets.
He is offered a chance to have his criminal history erased as payment
for a task considered to be impossible: “inception”, the implantation of
another person’s idea into a target’s subconscious.
The films currently holds an 86%
fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 325 critical reviews. Roger Ebert awarded the film 4/4 stars saying
this of the film in his review, “The story can either be told in a few sentences, or not told
at all. Here is a movie immune to
spoilers: If you knew how it ended, that would tell you nothing unless you knew
how it got there. And telling you how it
got there would produce bafflement. The
movie is all about process, about fighting our way through enveloping sheets of
reality and dream, reality within dreams, dreams without reality. It’s a breathtaking juggling act. The movies often seem to come from the
recycling bin these days: Sequels, remakes, franchises. Inception
does a difficult thing. It is wholly
original, cut from new cloth, and yet structured with action movie basics so it
feels like it makes more sense than (quite possibly) it does. I thought there was a hole in Memento: How does a man with short-term
memory loss remember he has short-term memory loss? Maybe there’s a hole in Inception too, but I can’t find it.
Christopher Nolan reinvented Batman.
This time he isn’t reinventing anything.
Yet few directors will attempt to recycle Inception. I think when
Nolan left the labyrinth, he threw away the map.”
Here's the trailer:
Interstellar will be showing Thursday, Aug. 18th at 5:30pm (please note the earlier start time to accommodate the longer running time)
Interstellar
is a 2014 epic science fiction film directed by Christopher Nolan and starring
Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, and Michael Caine. The film features a crew of astronauts who
travel through a wormhole in search of a new home for humanity. Brothers Christopher and Jonathan Nolan wrote
the screenplay. Caltech theoretical
physicist Kip Thorne, whose work inspired the film, was an executive producer
and acted as scientific consultant.
The film holds a 71% rating on Rotten
Tomatoes based on 294 critical reviews.
Matt Zoller Seitz writing for Rogerebert.com gave the film 3 ½ /4 stars
saying this in his review, “There’s something pure and powerful about this
movie. I can’t recall a science fiction
film hard-sold to a director’s fans as multiplex-“awesome” in which so many
major characters wept openly in close-up, voices breaking, tears streaming down
their cheeks. The movie’s science
fiction trappings are just a wrapping for a spiritual/emotional drama about
basic human desires (for home, for family, for continuity of bloodline and
culture), as well as for a horror film of sorts-one that treats the star
voyagers’ and their earthbound loved ones’ separation as spectacular metaphors
for what happens when the people we value are taken from us by death, illness,
or unbridgeable distance. Here, more so
than any other Nolan film (and that’s saying a lot), time is everything. “I’m an old physicist” Brand tells Cooper
early in the film “I’m afraid of time.”
Time is something we all fear.
There’s a ticking clock governing every aspect of existence, from the global
to the familial. Every act by every
character is an act of defiance, born of a wish to not go gently.”
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