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DONNIE DARKO: in God’s channel (pt 2)

“It was as if the plan had been with him all his life…” – Karen Pomeroy, Donnie Darko Spoilers Ahead: for the first part of the Donnie
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Flashback to DONNIE DARKO

“28 days… 6 hours… 42 minutes… 12 seconds. That is when the world will end.” – Donnie Darko Writer/Director Richard Kelly uses various techniques to capture
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INCEPTION, Reformed (for the last time)

What do filmmaker Christopher Nolan and Puritan Preacher Jonathan Edwards have in common? I know we’ve been hammering on Inception for what seems like a lifetime
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“True Inspiration” versus INCEPTION – does it exist?

“True inspiration is impossible to fake.” In Christopher Nolan’s incredible Inception, the notion is posited that planting an idea may not be possible because the mind
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Why I am afraid of HOUSE…

My wife and I knew Hugh Laurie as a gullible Prince Regent from Black Adder and the foppish man-boy from Jeeves and Wooster long before he
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(INCEPTION) “This is the really REAL world…”

“… there ain’t no comin’ back!” – a babbling T-Bird, from The Crow (this is part of a series on Inception with increasing SPOILERS – start with
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Last Exorcism Botches & Blairs (witch, not Linda)

Whether you’ve grown tired or more intrigued by the faux-documentaries of late (popularized and polarized by The Blair Witch Project and continuing with films like Cloverfield
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Subjecting yourself to INCEPTION…

“Our dreams, they feel real while we’re in them right? Its only when we wake up then we realize that something was actually strange!” – Cobb,
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From Cliffhangers to TopSpinners via INCEPTION

The term “cliffhanger” emerged between the early 1900s and 1937 in silent films, featuring (according to Wikipedia) “a main character in a precarious or difficult dilemma,