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One of Christopher Nolan's most underrated sci-fi movies was released 18 years ago, and the film was instrumental in starting the director's most popular ongoing tradition. Having produced 12 feature-length films, Christopher Nolan has created some of the best movies in the past few decades, earning him a massive reputation in the process. As a result, audiences are excited whenever his name is attached to a project, which is one of the biggest factors behind Oppenheimer becoming a near $1 billion success, adding to the hype around his next movie set to be released in July 2026.

In addition, the cast of Christopher Nolan's next movie has also got the internet talking, with some huge names confirmed to be involved. While the director has had countless hit films throughout his career, his 18-year-old sci-fi hit remains one of his most underrated, and it's massively influential to him becoming an Oscar winner. Alongside being...

Long before he confused the heck out of all of us with "Tenet," Christopher Nolan was producing scripts so perplexing that even veterans like Leonardo DiCaprio and Guy Pearce didn't understand them. Tom Hardy has admitted to taking a leap on the script for "Inception," which he claimed was a "bit complicated," and Nolan even confused himself by including a famous line in "The Dark Knight" that he didn't understand.

So, even if you're a Nolan fan, you're likely used to being befuddled by the director's efforts. But the man basically announced his arrival in Hollywood as a filmmaker with a penchant for the perplexing. After self-financing his first film, "Following," which contained several Nolan trademarks including a non-linear narrative, the director found himself with a modest budget for his studio debut, "Memento." Rather than dispose of any complex filmmaking techniques for this film, however, Nolan refused to dumb things down,...

A hand shakes a Polaroid as it "reverse develops," moments before an ejected shell casing re-enters the gun it was fired from -- the bullet coming back out of the screaming man it was fired into.

As opening scenes go, you don't get much better than "Memento," Christopher Nolan's gripping film. And, as features go, few are as scary-good as this one. A thriller about memory, reality and, um, tattoos, "Memento's" twisty plot more than holds up 15 years later. Some would say it's "The Dark Knight" director's best film.

Forget the pending remake that has everyone crying "too soon;" in honor of the film's 15th anniversary this week, here are 15 things you never knew about this modern classic.

1. The brothers Nolan -- Christopher (pictured) and Jonathan -- came up with the idea for the film while on a 2000 mile road trip, driving from Chicago to Los Angeles.

2. The...

Welcome to Screen Rant’s “Geek Picks,” where we collect the finest movie-related geekery from around the Web for you. Today you’ll find the largest collection of video game memorabilia on the planet; some sexy Velma cosplay; a sneak peak of the 18 installments of The Hobbit; and see what Superman and The Iron Giant’s meet ups look like. All that and more on this edition of Sr’s Geek Picks!

To kick things off today, TheFW shows you what all the kids from Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory look like today.

Slate tells us why the Skyfall deserves the Oscar for Best Score.

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If I Am Your Mirror

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In a post-Civil War jail, a psychologically scarred veteran (Larry Holden of Batman Begins, Memento), awaits his death by hanging at dawn. Mourning the death of his wife and struggling with post-traumatic nightmares,...

Why Watch? Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart,” director Garrett DeHart has blended computer-rendered imagery with grotesquerie in order to paint a gorgeous portrait in blood. Set after the Civil War, it stars Larry Holden (Memento, Batman Begins) as a veteran awaiting the gallows while weaving his way through his own insanity and a reality that feels even more unhinged. The visuals are reminiscent of the computer graphics of 1999. Painted animation, that partially rotoscoped feeling that made people look real one nanosecond, then obviously fake the next. It’s a perfect match for the tone of the fever dream being told here, and something few people are choosing to do stylistically. Behind all of it is a grand sense of agony and dread created by a dark palette, uneasy imagery and a one-eyed preacher imbuing the raw violence with cries about blood setting us free. Every moment has a thin layer of dirt over...

It was just about a year ago when we first heard about indie slasher Blood Was Everywhere, and now the film is set to have its festival premiere at Rock & Shock and is also available for DVD pre-order and online rental.

From the Press Release:

Sun in 10 Productions is proud to announce the independent horror film Blood Was Everywhere is part of the Official Selection at the 2012 Rock and Shock Film Festival. It will screen on Sunday, October 14th, as part of the Rock and Shock horror convention at the Dcu Center in Worcester, Ma. Members of the cast and crew will be in attendance. More information on the festival can be found here.

Sun in 10 Productions has also made Blood Was Everywhere available for online rental. For the low price of $3.99, viewers can watch the movie from the comfort of their computer while supporting the art of independent filmmaking.

Memento Timeline Infographic. The Memento (2000) Timeline Infographic explains the multiple plot lines of the film if the viewer was having a problem understanding. Memento “chronicles two separate stories of Leonard, an ex-insurance investigator who can no longer build new memories, as he attempts to find the murderer of his wife, which is the last thing he remembers. One story line moves forward in time while the other tells the story backwards revealing more each time.”

The Memento infographic poster:

Memento Infographic

More on Memento (with spoilers):

Memento is a 2000 American psychological thriller and neo-noir film written and directed by Christopher Nolan, adapted from his younger brother Jonathan’s short story, Memento Mori. It stars Guy Pearce as Leonard Shelby, a man with anterograde amnesia, which impairs his ability to store new explicit memories. During the opening credits, which portray the end of the story, it is shown that Leonard...

In Blood Was Everywhere, the nightmare of the unsolved, random murder is brought to life as a faceless killer wreaks havoc on the lives of average people in a small Massachusetts town. Blood Was Everywhere will have its world premiere on November 5 at The Green Room in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, where portions of the film were shot. Members of the cast and crew will be on hand for this special, intimate screening. The filmmakers will be taking their creation on a tour of independent theaters throughout New England in the coming months with plans for further expansion in 2012 before an eventual DVD release. The cast features Paul Kratka (Friday the 13th Part III), the late Larry Holden (Memento, Batman Begins) and a number of fresh talent, including Ashley Arnold, Kimberly Simone, Phil Ristaino, Vanessa Leigh, John Westcott, Dita Prenn, Adam Morey, Neal Howland, Ben Kirchmyer, Erin Lynch and Kevin Hayes.

A little news on an independent horror flick that is due to premiere next month. Blood Was Everywhere is about a killer on the loose in a small town in Massachusetts and will premiere on November 5th in The Green Room, Uxbridge Ma (where part of the film was shot). Judging from the trailer, which is posted below, I would think it is likely to go down quite well. Personally I am digging the atmosphere and use of the music, and surprisingly there isn’t blood everywhere. There is plenty in the trailer though to hint that the filmmakers haven’t skimped on the claret. Anyway, you can judge for yourselves.

*In Blood Was Everywhere, the nightmare of the unsolved, random murder is brought to life as a faceless killer wreaks havoc on the lives of average people in a small Massachusetts town.*

Blood Was Everywhere will have its world...

A new slasher movie always excites me - no matter the quality. Sure the glory days are over, but that doesn't mean these indie filmmakers can't occasionally hit one out of the park, right? And these guys are from my hometown state of Massachusetts so what the hell? I'll gladly check this out.

From the Press Release

In Blood Was Everywhere, the nightmare of the unsolved, random murder is brought to life as a faceless killer wreaks havoc on the lives of average people in a small Massachusetts town.

Blood Was Everywhere will have its world premiere on November 5 at The Green Room in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, where portions of the film were shot. Members of the cast and crew will be on hand for this special, intimate screening. The filmmakers will be taking their creation on a tour of independent theaters throughout New England in the coming months with plans...

I had been pushing off my neo-noir retrospective review of Christopher Nolan's Memento (2000) for numerous reasons. Initially, I kept pushing it off so that we could run it the same week that his latest film, Inception -- one of the most awaited films of the summer -- hit theaters. Well, that week has finally come (I have my midnight tickets, do you?), yet I was still feeling a bout of procrastination when it came to writing about Memento. Despite my rationalizing, the main reason I kept pushing the review off was, regardless of my love of the film and noir in general, I simply did not know what original insights I could bring to the table. Memento, like so many other great films before it, has inspired a great deal of criticism and analysis. That said, I'm tapping out. I'm playing my get out of jail free card. I'm writing my first real-time review.

We have a brand new exclusive clip from the upcoming Blu-ray debut of Insomnia, which hits the shelves in high-definition for the first time on July 13. Click on this exclusive clip below, which Al Pacino and Robin Williams having a friendly chat.

Exclusive: I'm Not Who You Think I Am

A thriller to keep you wide awake in mesmerizing hi-def from the director of The Dark Knight and Inception.

Invited to Nightmute, Alaska, to head a murder case, a veteran Lapd detective finds his investigation disrupted by an ever-shining midnight sun that wreaks sleep-depriving havoc on him - and by personal guilt over a second crime that may be real...or a figment of his increasingly unstable consciousness. Director Christopher Nolan (whose other credits include Memento and Batman Begins) crafts another jolting psychological thriller to remember, guiding Academy Award winners Al Pacino, Robin Williams and Hilary Swank in Insomnia. In...