Shane Carruth is the man responsible for the brain-busting time travel flick Primer. He returns to screens this week with the similarly mind-bending Upstream Color. It tells the story of Kris (Amy Seimetz) and Jeff (Carruth); two strangers who are inexplicably abducted and released back into the world with elements of their identities removed … […]
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Teaser Debut: Upstream Colour
December 12, 2012 
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After eight years of waiting, we finally get our first look at Primer director Shane Carruth’s second feature film, and it’s as weird and obtuse as we expected. “I have to apologise. I was born with a disfigurement where my head is made with the same material as the sun.” After making one of the […]
Continue readingThe top 10 time travel films
September 28, 2012 1 Comment
The top 10 time travel films. By Simon Miraudo. In Looper, Joseph Gordon-Levitt meets his future self and discovers he looks an awful lot like Bruce Willis. Hair-loss aside, there are worse revelations one could make about their destiny. In the spirit of that picture’s flagrant flexing of the space-time continuum, we’re sharing our top 10 time travel films. Select your […]
Continue readingTime in its prime – Looper review
September 26, 2012 0 Comments
Looper – Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, and Emily Blunt. Directed by Rian Johnson. Rated MA. By Simon Miraudo. There’s a difference between science-fiction that inspires the question ‘What if?’ and science fiction that leaves us monosyllabically muttering ‘Huh?’ A film’s ability to confound is not immediate certification of its brilliance. It’s a revelation, then, […]
Continue readingTeaser Debut: Looper
April 13, 2012 0 Comments
The teaser trailer for Rian Johnson‘s time travel flick Looper has arrived online, with plenty of mind-bending logic to twist your mind into all kinds of knots. Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis play the same character in Looper; an assassin that is tasked with killing his older self. Let the teaser describe it further: You […]
Continue readingDuncan Jones explains Source Code ending with handy graph
September 8, 2011 0 Comments
Duncan Jones‘ sci-fi thriller Source Code is one of the biggest brain-melters of recent years, with an ending that left many scratching their heads. Until now! Jones has Tweeted a doodling of the events of the film, breaking down the various realities created by Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) as he travels back in time […]
Continue readingPrimer director working on Rian Johnson’s Looper
January 18, 2011 0 Comments
We’ve not got too much information to work with here, but a picture from the set of Rian Johnson’s upcoming time-travel thriller Looper reveals the mysterious involvement of Shane Carruth (Primer). The picture was posted on Looper’s official Tumblr, with the enigmatic – but in a way, rather straightforward – caption: “Shane Carruth is working […]
Continue readingShane Carruth’s latest film to make your brain explode
June 23, 2010 1 Comment
Engineer-turned-director Shane Carruth has long been working on the follow up project to his mind-melting time travel flick Primer. Thanks to The Playlist, we now know what his next film is about! Kinda! The Playlist got a hold of Carruth’s screenplay A Topiary, which sounds as infuriating and complex as his feature film debut. Consider […]
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