Inception. If you haven’t heard of this recent blockbuster movie yet, you should have. The movie revolves around a guy, Dom (Leonardo DiCaprio), who is specialized in entering someone else’s dream state to steal or implement an idea. Sounds radical? Well, just go and rent the movie: it is an awesome complex high-order storyline, packed [...]

Amazon.com: In the near future, a computer hacker named Neo (Keanu Reeves) discovers that all life on Earth may be nothing more than an elaborate facade created by a malevolent cyber-intelligence, for the purpose of placating us while our life essence is “farmed” to fuel the Matrix’s campaign of domination in the “real” world. He [...]

Amazon.com: Vanilla Sky reunites director Cameron Crowe (Jerry Maguire) with uber-playboy Tom Cruise, adds another sexy Cruz (Penelope) and Cameron Diaz for good measure, and delivers a wildly entertaining, bizarre venture into erotic science fiction. Adapted near exactly from Spanish filmmaker Alejandro Amenabar’s 1997 romantic thriller Open Your Eyes, the film follows David Aames (Cruise) [...]

Amazon.com: Director David Cronenberg’s eXistenZ is a stew of corporate espionage, virtual reality gaming, and thriller elements, marinated in Cronenberg’s favorite Crock-Pot juices of technology, physiology, and sexual metaphor. Jennifer Jason Leigh is game designer Allegra Geller, responsible for the new state-of-the-art eXistenZ game system; along with PR newbie Ted Pikul (Jude Law), they take [...]

Amazon.com: Waking Life is a film that never settles down. Or maybe it never wakes up. Regardless, Richard Linklater’s animated meditation seems to strike a perfect balance between the plotless meanderings of Slacker and the unquenchable knowledge-seeking of Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha. Any way you look at it, this is a weird, original movie. As he [...]