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Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released every Saturday at 6pm GMT, with the occasional bonus episode thrown in.

This time, Christopher Nolan’s Inception.

Dom Cobb is one of the best extractors in the world, an artist who sneaks into people’s dreams and steals their secrets. However, after one botched job, Cobb is approached by a mysterious industrialist with an ambitious proposal: inception. If Cobb can plant an idea in his chief rival’s head, Cobb can finally go home to his long lost family.

At time of recording, it was ranked the 14th best movie of all-time on the Internet Movie Database.

Notes:

• Recorded 19th August 2018, 8th September 2018, 13th September 2018 and 22nd September 2018.
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• Tom Dreisbach and Melly McEvers at NPR on Steve Bannon’s time in Hollywood, October 2017.
• Steve Pond at The Wrap on the Oscar legacy of The Dark Knight, July 2018.
• Greg Miller at Wired on the way the brain processes information in a cinematic cut, September 2014.
• Scott Kaufman at The A.V. Club on how cinematic long takes screw with the audience, March 2015.
• Kristin Thompson and David Bordwell at Observations on Film Art on the structuring of Inception as an exposition-driven heist film, August 2010.
• Eric Ditzian at MTV News on Tom Hardy as the breakout performer of Inception, July 2010.
• Barrack Obama singles out Anne Hathaway’s role in The Dark Knight Rises for praise in The Huffington Post, August 2012.
• A.O. Scott at The New York Times on the controversy around “Nolanistas” and the reaction to Inception, July 2010.
• Kristin Thompson and David Bordwell at Observations on Film Art on the recursion within Inception, August 2010.
• Bilge Ebiri at Vulture on the hidden inception within Inception, July 2010.
• Patrick Goldstein and James Rainey at The Los Angeles Times on how Nolan and Warners created something wholly original with Inception, July 2010.
• Mark Harris at GQ on the lack of original big budget films, February 2011.
• Christopher Nolan discusses his preference for IMAX over 3D with the Directors’ Guild of America, Spring 2012.
• Christopher Nolan discusses the importance of film as “the gold standard” of filmmaking with Variety, February 2014.
• Jonah Lehrer at Wired discusses the neuroscience behind Inception, July 2010.
• Oliver Chiang at Forbes on the science of Inception, July 2010.
• David Bordwell at Observations on Film Art on models of the mind and psychoanalysis in watching and processing film imagery, May 2012.
• Laura Rascaroli at Kinema on the history of the dream metaphor in cinema, Fall 2002.
• Christopher Nolan at The Guardian on the ending to Inception, June 2015.
• Michael Caine at Time on the ending of Inception, August 2018.
• Sean Connery at The Huffington Post on turning down the role of Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings, November 2012.
• Christian Beekman at Task and Purpose on the interlinked history between the military and the video games industry, November 2014.
• Christopher Nolan rules himself out of directing the next Bond movie at The Independent, February 2018.
• Lewis Wallace at Wired on how much Skyfall owes to The Dark Knight, November 2012.
• Julie Beck at The Atlantic on how romantic comedies normalise stalking, February 2016.
• Ian Zimmerman at Psychology Today on the power of subliminal advertising, June 2014.
• Brian Resnick at Vox on the crisis of replication in modern science, August 2018.
• Ryan Coogler talks to The Irish Times about rooting for Apollo Creed in Rocky, January 2016.
• Eddie Murphy in Raw about how Italian Americans reacted to Rocky, November 1987.
• Darren talks about his own anxieties concerning Inception, September 2018.
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