INCEPTION (Dir. Christopher Nolan)
Nolan throws a perfect storm of stunts, effects, locations and actors at one big idea: that it’s possible to pilfer ideas from dreams by a process called ‘extraction’, which involves hooking yourself up to a drip, falling asleep and entering the world of the subconscious. The holy grail of this process is to reverse it, which is ‘inception’, the planting of a new idea in another’s mind. That’s the trick that experts Dom and Arthur, aided by new recruits Ariadne and Eames, try to pull off while hopping from Tokyo to Paris to Mombasa. They’re working for Saito in pursuit of business magnate Robert, and their motives vary, from financial to intellectual. But DiCaprio has another driver: the memory of his wife Mal is haunting him and it’s going to take a lot of psychological spring-cleaning for him to reconnect with that lost world.
December lead titles on general release
'Centurion', 'Killers', Thursday December 2nd
'The Karate Kid', Wednesday 8th December
'Scott Pilgrim vs The World', Wednesday 15th December
'The Expendables', 'Special Relationship', Thursday 16th December
'Death At A Funeral', Wednesday 29th December
'Piranha', Thursday 30th December
Notable new releases this month:
'Killer Inside Me, The' (Casey Affleck)
'City Of Your Final Destination' (Laura Linney)
'Winter's Bone' (Jennifer Lawrence)
'Please Give' (Catherine Keener)
'The Disappearance of Alice Creed' (Gemma Arturton)
'Middle of Nowhere' (Susan Sarandon)
'Cairo Time' (Patricia Clarkson)
'Helen' (Ashley Judd)
'My Son My Son What Have Ye Done' (Werner Herzog/David Lynch)
'Ondine' (Colin Farrell/Neil Jordan)