Christopher Nolan both wrote and directed this feature.  And I’m sure he will be nominated in at least one of these categories come awards time.

The premise is that through dreams, we can create reality.  And when we can enter another person’s dreams, we can either obtain information, or plant ideas (hence the term Inception) that can alter reality.

Leonardo DiCaprio is Dom, a specialist in this field with big issues.  He gets an assignment so big that if successful, it will allow him to leave the business, and the personal demons he has encountered along the way, with it.  His team is equally committed, and creative.  Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Ellen Page are curious and intelligent, as well as likable.  We totally buy into this adventure that they are taking us on.

You have to pay close attention to this movie to keep track of everything.  There are many “layers” of dreaming, so simultaneous storylines are going on with the same characters.  The pace is quick, and the stakes are high, I found myself holding my breath at certain points of the film!

There are few movies I’d see twice in a short period of time, but I would definitely see this one again – There is so much going on I want to see what I missed the first time around!

Some violence.

“In Good Company” is a contemporary comedy/family drama which could very well be the story of many of us today. Dennis Quaid, one of my all-time favorite actors, stars as an aging advertising exec demoted to make room for a young corporate upstart. His life is pretty shaken up anyway, so he takes this news as just another challenge to tackle. His wife, the lovely Marg Helgenberger, is pregnant, and his two teenage daughters are going through their own dramas. Scarlett Johanssen is the older daughter, going off to follow her dreams, flying the nest for New York University. So there’s the tuition to think about. Scarlett plays her own age for a change, and is just wonderful.

Topher Grace plays the young up-and coming corporate exec who is “being groomed” by the powers-that-be in the conglomerate that has taken over Quaid’s firm. These two have wonderful chemistry. I’ve always liked Dennis Quaid, I think he is one of the more underrated actors of our generation, and he does a great job here. Topher is the kid on “That 70’s Show” and he has got the chops! I expect him to be doing some great things in the future. His character is supposed to be the “whiz kid” but he can’t get his personal life together. Things get complicated when Topher and Scarlett hook up. But then, life is complicated, anyway, right? I loved this movie!

I think this movie should be required viewing for all high school and college students, and they are the ones who are inheriting this huge problem.

Jim Carrey plays a character who starts out being a somewhat typical family man.  But then he has a car accident and decides to stop living a lie and start living life as he truly is.  He’s a con man, and he’s gay.  He gets himself into one outlandish situation after another, which is what makes the movie so entertaining.  Just when you think, “what else can he do” he does something even crazier!

Ewan McGregor plays Phillip Morris, the boyfriend that Carrey’s character meets in prison.  So in a way, this is a love story.  But the whole thing plays our very bizarre – it keeps you guessing.  I guess the sheer originality is what intrigued me the most.

Strong cast, terrific performances.