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HOROSCOPE:
Today is a good time for making new friends. A good deed may have unforeseen consequences. Don’t upset any druids. You will soon be going on a very strange journey. Your lucky food is small cucumbers. People pointing knives at you are probably up to no good. PS, we really mean it about the druids.

Do Christopher Nolan's films owe a debt to video games? Yes, I rather think so.

Read a New Yorker piece about how Christopher Nolan's movies are structured as games rather than novelistic narratives, and how this comes to a head in Inception, which is entirely game-like. These are observations I've made myself, and recently, so I agree. Naturally the entire commentariat at the site rejects it out of hand, and I get the impression I always get reading anything online these days - people don't like Chris Nolan. It seems hardly anyone does like his writing or his films.

I was saying the other day that the best type of film to me, my favourite and my love, is the heist movie. Nolan loves a heist, a puzzle, a plot and a game too, so I love Christopher Nolan.

Just think: in '77 you had The Clash but George Lucas, in 2012 we have The Killers but Chris Nolan. I'll fucking take it.