Allen’s Film Reviews for Summer 2010 #1: Inception
Inception is the best film I’ve seen in many a while. By what standard? This – unlike others, it stuck in my mind far beyond the two minute walk from cinema to car on way home. In fact, for the first week after I watched it, images from it frequented my head (although thankfully not my dreams). I pestered people at work with the question, “What is the most resilient...
Read MoreThe Incredible(s) Ayn Rand
You know how I believe that comics are smart. Well it seems that children’s films are too. I happened across an article recently that asked the question of how you make a kids flick engaging for an adult audience too. The answer? You place ideas in it. (Are you listening Hollywood?) For instance, the excellent 2004 film The Incredibles. It ‘satirises the litigiousness of US...
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