"Are you watching closely?" - Alfred Borden

Yeah...so, this is the film that had me all the way. It's sublime. It's one of the most intelligent films I've ever seen. It's got my mind working in over-drive. I'm over-heating. I can't say anything at all about this to people who haven't seen it, so I'll just babble on critically...

Everyone, and I mean everyone, is at the top of their game here. Particularly Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale. Their roles…

After the disappointment of The Dark Knight Rises I wanted to revisit Nolan at his best. Whilst the film’s narrative structure is fragmented, much like the elusive puzzle at the heart of the story, it is deftly plotted where each component is revealed to fit neatly together and create a satisfying whole. The brilliance of the film is that it reveals everything to the audience at the very beginning. It tells you exactly how the trick is achieved early on,…

Christopher Nolan gives us a Victorian mystery thriller with almost as many twists and turns as his previous effort Memento. Played to perfection by an excellent cast of some of the finest actors around Nolan steps out from behind more famous directors shadows.
Christian Bale,Hugh Jackman,Scarlett Johansson,Michael Caine,Rebbecca Hall and Andy Serkis provide real class to a polished and innovative script that draws you in from the start.
A story of obsession and betrayal this ticks all the boxes as…

‘The Prestige’ created remarkably captivating and gripping performances by Bale, Jackman and Caine fulfilling the roles and succeeding the story-line perfectly of the rivalry between two magicians being exacerbated when one of them performs the ultimate illusion. I felt this was an undeniably astounding plot that accommodated the spectator with immense fascination and enthrallment. A little sceptical of the court case as an overall perspective; although they explained the entire story in full detail, they should have depicted the judgement…

I actually hadn't seen this since I saw it in the theatre in 2006, when I liked it but was also very confused at the end (which is the point). I always meant to rent and re-visit it, but then I saw an $8.00 Blu Ray at Target over the weekend and figured it was worth it. I was definitely right.

An engrossing narrative that involves the long-running (and ultimately deadly and tragic) feud between two magicians obsessively dedicated to…

This film is easily Nolans best. Many have disagreed with me over a pint but actually take the advice of the film "look closely". There are not many films out there that have been written with such depth and connectivity. Almost every event in the film is linked to things both to come in the film and things that have happened. Not a single line of the script is wasted. Everything has a purpose. Each word and glance has intention.…

The Prestige is arguably masterful director Christopher Nolan's most underrated film to date. When people think of Nolan they usually think of amazing films like The Dark Knight trilogy, Inception, and Memento, but not The Prestige and even if I don't love it quite as much as those films, I still wonder why people don't mention it much. The Prestige is pretty much Nolan at his best: compelling, challenges the audienece, unpredictable, original, beautiful to look at, gripping, thrilling, mind-binding,…