Homer’s epic tale The Odyssey, which describes Odysseus’ tumultuous journey home to his family and his Kingdom of Ithaca following the Trojan War presents not only a thrilling adventure but a psychological landscape of human struggle against the forces besieging us in life. Its influence on literature, storytelling and culture is immeasurable having inspired countless works including James Joyce’s Ulysses,
Read moreOppenheimer, Christopher Nolan’s biopic of the so called ‘Father of the Atomic Bomb’, J. Robert Oppenheimer, has for some, been one of the most anticipated films of the year, both for its subject matter and because it’s from one of the most compelling and occasionally perplexing filmmakers of recent times. For the most part, this mix of historical epic and
Read moreAfter the disappointment of his last sci-fi outing, the ambitious but confusing, inert and miscast Interstellar, Christopher Nolan returns with a film as gargantuan in scope, complexity, running time and likelihood of dividing audiences in Tenet. It seems Nolan’s quest with this film was to make the most confusing time travel movie ever. Apparently, the Spierig brothers’ Predestination, where characters
Read moreWith Dunkirk, Christopher Nolan eschews the traditional war movie narrative for a lyrical yet potently realistic depiction of the 1940 evacuation of more than 300,000 Allied soldiers from the beaches of France as German shells rained down. There’s no war-room strategy sessions, no soldiers talking about their best girl back home and no Rambo-like action sequences. Instead, Nolan recounts the
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