A Christopher Nolan sci-fi/action masterpiece (the mind that brought you by far the most legendary Batman installment ‘The Dark Knight’) featuring the unquestionable talents of Leonardo Dicaprio, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Ken Watanabe, Marrion Cotillard and Ellen Page. By now, I am pretty certain that most of the Middle East, let alone Kuwait, has seen this movie, but on the off chance that you haven’t run don’t walk to theatres to watch the most mind-blowing film since ‘The Matrix’. Nolan takes us into the architecture of our minds via our dreams where extractors like our protagonist Dom Cobb, Leo Dicaprio, can infiltrate and ultimately extract desirable confidential information that lingers in your subconscious and populates your dreams. The challenge for Cobb and his team this time around, is not to extract but to incept (plant) an idea in someone’s subconscious making them believe that it is in fact their own. The film is so beautifully textured with complexities and specificities pertaining to the entering and re-entering of the dream-world versus reality, making for some great edge-of-your-seat action sequences, as well as some intellectually stimulating theories. 148 minutes of pure, cranium-stimulating entertainment with impeccable performances and awe-inspiring visual direction.

On the drive back home, I contemplated my own dreamworld and tried to examine how conscious I am within my own dreams. I know that when I’m falling in my dream I physically feel the fear of the impact with the ground which is what tends to wake me up. And sometimes I recall telling myself while I am in my dreamworld that this is not real and that I am just dreaming, but strangely, I find it is actually quite difficult to convince yourself that what your mind has built as a dream is not reality, it just seems so real at the time. Even the most absurd dreams, like the one I had the other night when I dreamt I had two pet cougars that lived at home with me, seem not at all out of the ordinary and quite easy to believe wholly, I believed it so much, that when I woke I asked my mom where the cougars were. This blur between dreams and reality is what Nolan plays with in this epic film.

I invite you all to please comment and discuss your own experience with the film or your own dreamworld on this blog space.

Thanks for reading,

Cinemanut

Universal Pictures’ first animated feature film, a comedy that will entertain kids and adults alike. Featuring the voice talents of Steve Carell, Jason Segal, Russell Brand, Will Arnett, & Julie Andrews. The hilarious comedy tells the story of Gru, a heartless supervillain on a mission to out-do his latest nemesis, Vector, a villain who actually managed to steal a pyramid from Egypt. Gru comes up with a diabolical plan to steal the moon. But soon finds out the key to getting the device that will help him on his new supervillain mission are three orphan girls. He decides to adopt them in order to use them in his evil master plan. In the process he manages to find out he actually does have a heart that feels quite deeply for these three girls who managed to turn a superbad into a superdad.

Take your family to watch this heartwarmingly hilarious film, you will not regret it.

Please let us know what you think, I’d be eager to read your comments about it.

Thanks for reading,

Cinemanut

Deemed to be the next Picasso! This 10 year old school boy has already been snapped by an international art agency despite the fact that he still is in primary school. Many of his paintings were well worth over £650.

Like Picasso- Hamad’s art is inspired by Africa, its music, colors and the sound of the drums.

Good luck- wishing you the best always!!

So so proud!!

We tried to contribute with Haiti.. Let’s do it for Pakistan too.

The Islamic International Donation Association (IIDA) will be sending the donations. 

SUPPORT BY sending  an sms to the following numbers. The sms value is K.D. 1

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Has anyone tried any of the new flavors? I think I want to pass by sometime this weekend and try some. I love Napket- it has soo much less added sugar than other frozen yogurts. Yumm!

 The Necker Nymph which is specially designed for Virgin Limited is now launched. It is a 3-person aero submarine that dives under the Britsh Virgin Island waters for almost 2 hours at a speed of up to 6 knots. Two passengers sit beside a trained pilot and get to experince as much as a 30 metre dive underwater.

 visit their website to learn more:

http://www.neckerisland.virgin.com/en/necker_island

This is a great form meets function design that I stumbled upon while browsing the internet. American firm Choi and Shine architects came up with this new way on how to look at electricity pylons. The conceptual design is 30 metres tall and is modular so that the pylons are malleable to any form depending on its surroundings across the Icelandinc landscape(So they can seem to walk, crouch, and climb).  This ladies and gentlemen is a clear case of thinking out of the box…what do you think?