Category Archives: Fantasy

2010, Car Chase, Complicated, Fantasy, Psychological Thriller, Sci-Fi, Suspense, Violent

Inception (2010)

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From NetFlix:

Nominated for two Golden Globes, this unnerving sci-fi thriller stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Dom Cobb, who earns a tidy sum infiltrating the dreams of corporate titans to steal their most closely held secrets. Tapped by a rich industrialist (Ken Watanabe) for a job involving a rival’s heir, Cobb marshals a team of specialists that includes his right-hand man (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), an architecture student (Ellen Page) and a chemist (Dileep Rao).

A dream within a dream within a dream !!! Well, if you are comfortable with computer recursion or computer stacks or maybe just plain old multiprocessing, why not ?

Just let your mind go, enjoy the eye candy (pseudo-science, dreamscapes, elaborate settings, digital effects, etc), and if you don’t seem to understand everything, it just doesn’t matter.

You might try reading the Wikipedia explanation.

At the very least pay attention to the meaning of the spinning top so that you can truly appreciate the final 5 seconds of the film.

2009, Acceptable Trash, Fantasy, Funny at times, Sci-Fi, Suspense, TV Series

Warehouse 13 (2009)

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From NetFlix:

After saving the president’s life, Secret Service agents Pete Lattimer (Eddie McClintock) and Myka Bering (Joanne Kelly) receive orders to report to a top-secret location. They soon discover that their new jobs entail guarding mystical items contained in Warehouse 13. They also must monitor unusual events all over the country and track down additional mysterious articles for government safekeeping in this supernatural action series.

This B-grade escapee from the SyFy channel is just mindless fun. Pete and Myka spend their time flirting and searching for dangerous artifacts. Some episodes are better than others, but for the most part I get hooked once the plot gets moving.

As of this writing, only season 1 is available on DVD.

OK for kids.

Call it acceptable escape or whatever, just tune out and enjoy.

I LOVE TRASH!

2006, Fantasy, Occasional gore, Suspense, TV Series

The Lost Room (2006)

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From NetFlix:

After Detective Joe Miller (Peter Krause) finds a key that opens a mysterious motel room, he discovers it’s a portal to an alternate universe when his young daughter Anna (Elle Fanning) disappears inside. Desperate to retrieve the key and save her, Miller comes up against a host of bizarre characters who also want access to the room. Julianna Margulies, Kevin Pollak, Dennis Christopher and Margaret Cho co-star in this eerie fantasy

My son Mike recommended that I watch a wonderful TV fantasy miniseries called The Room. As it turns out, Mike made a small mistake. “The Room” is now a cult film that plays often at the Coolidge Corner cinema. “The Room” is billed as the worst film ever made. Unfortunately “The Room” arrived from NetFlix and I started to watch it. Believe me, “The Room” might possibly be the worst film ever made. Whatever you do, do NOT watch “The Room”.

What Mike should have recommended was a two-disk TV miniseries called “The Lost Room”. If you liked “Lost” and other such fantasy series, you will love “The Lost Room”. Peter Krause is perfect. And lately I keep finding films in which Julianna Margulies (“Canterbury’s Law”, “The Good Wife”, The Man From Elysian Fields (2001)) plays.

Just sit back, suspend all disbelief, and enjoy the ride!