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5 stars Does it have a flaw? Possibly. Probably more than one. But you don't really care by the time you've come out of the cinema. Because you have been blown away. One of the great things about Christopher Nolan's film is how it so convincingly fuses genres and then wraps itself around the audience like a python: crushing you in a tight coil. The plot is at once classic film noir meets sci-fi meets spy thriller/action flick. The characters are stock, but unforgettable and attractive. The experience, beneath all its hysterical thrills, is profound: it is like an extended meditation on a dream, a startling metaphor for film-making and a deep question about life. You could read a summary of the plot, but that's not going to help. That said, it is clear that the film is about people stealing ideas by entering dreams. And with that, the intriguing possibility of doing the inverse: implanting ideas to attain certain objectives. Is this germ not itself a metaphor for the cin...

Savage Machinery by Karen Rigby Finishing Line Press, Kentucky $14.00 New releases and forthcoming titles Savage Machinery opens with a poem that somehow manages to be invigorating, strangely beautiful and soothing all at the same time. Bathing in a Burned House startles – and it is the first of several very good poems in this 16 poem chapbook. There is a lightness, ease of language – a capturing of sorts, of that fleeting shadow of true Beauty in Bathing, as well as in several of the 16 poems included in Karen Rigby's new chapbook. The poems employ deft sonics and delicious imagery, all while leaving the the Reader with an uneasy discomfort, a sense of Truth and something I do not find nearly enough in contemporary poetry, the desire to return to the poems again and again. The poems unfold with each read, from “The Story of Adam and Eve” inspired by piece of illumination by Boucicaut Master straight through to the “woman on Forbes" (a line from the poem Sleeping on the Buses)...