The Prestige It's 3 fucking days til Christmas and I don't have time for lengthy posts, but it's been months since I've posted and I'm way behind. I'm likely to forget what I've seen pretty soon, so something needs to go up here.

4. I liked The Prestige. The story of two stage magicians at the turn of the century (uh... that last one, not this one) who each have wronged the other. A tale of obsessive vengeance ensues, each magician trying to simultaneously ruin and one-up the other. One employs Nikola Tesla to build him a machine which essentially teleports a person from one place to the other. Tesla does indeed produce a machine, but with interesting results. In the meantime, an interesting story unfolds. Wives are killed, love is betrayed, and Michael Cane runs around delivering a lot of "I told you so"s.

Speaking of Cane, he's 1/3 of the new cast of the Batman franchise who produced this movie while Warner Brothers firms up plans for the next Batflick. Him, Christian Bale, and the new Batdirector were all involved here. And, sadly, this movie probably didn't generate enough buzz for David Bowie to get the Academy Award nomination he deserves for his portrayal of Nikola Tesla.

Catch The Prestige when it hits television. It's long and plodding, what I like to call a "good Sunday afternoon movie," ie, you've got nothing to do on a boring Sunday afternoon and this would fill it perfectly without making you feel like you've wasted your time.  ¶ 10:46 AM