20 years ago Christopher Nolan burst onto the scene with his first time-altered film

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You could call it a dream within a dream...

In the second part of our series delving into the films of Christopher Nolan, we look at Memento, a potent onscreen manifestation of the filmmaker’s anxieties.

Spoilers ahead for Memento. One of my cinema pet peeves is when people refer to the structure of Christopher Nolan's Memento as "a gimmick." A gimmick is a hook that serves no point. It gets your attention, but by its very nature has no payoff. If Nolan dressed Guy Pearce in a chicken costume for the entirety of the movie and never explained it, that would be a gimmick. The reverse-chronology of Memento is essential to its power because it's the only way to put the audience in the mindset of its brain-damaged detective, Leonard Shelby (…

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Guy Pearce is just one of those actors that's just been steadily popping up and putting on the best performance of whatever he's in since, woof, 1994? The point is, he's racked up a fair share of iconic characters, and a new video from GQ sees the actor breaking down his most memorable roles. [caption id="attachment_580877" align="alignright" width="360"] Image via Newmarket Films[/caption] The video kicks off with Pearce's feature-breakthrough as a drag queen crossing the Australian outback in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, followed up by a few …

Guy Pearce knows a thing or two about being part of franchise films, but with the industry so packed with superhero films and comicbook adaptations, a top priority for the folks working on the Valiant films has to be figuring out a way to make them stand out. Pearce is confident Bloodshot will put the potential film series on the right path in that respect right out the gate. He plays Dr. Emil Harting in the film, the person leading the team over at Rising Spirit Technology. RST has helped a number of wounded soldiers recover from injuries and become …

Christopher Nolan's Memento and David Fincher's Fight Club have the same phone number. Here's why the movies share this unusual similarity.

Memento is what would happen if you crossed Finding Dory with a Hitman - so of course, it's sparked some incredible memes!