TOTM: The Prestige

As someone who is battling a deceptive flu which feigns disappearing but then comes back again, I am excited by the parallels I can draw with this film by Christopher Nolan about two magicians, played by Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman, whose rivalry is taken to fatal levels when trying to nail a particularly impressive vanishing trick. As a child, I used to find magicians scary, devious and imposing and this film lays emphasis on those traits, while Nolan's choice of set in old, dickensian London, adds suspense to an already brilliant intrigue. There was something strangely enlightening about peeping through the keyhole at well-known magic tricks only to see how simple and obvious the whole process is. This is definitely one to watch to distract a streaming nose for those of you ill enough not to notice Scarlet Johansson's dodgy London accent.