If you’ve spent any time online lately (or, frankly, if you’ve been a person who lives in the world), you’ve probably heard some version of: “There’s this new Christopher Nolan movie that’s supposed to be crazy. We should go see it.” Despite a cast that includes Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Lupita Nyong’o
In “The Odyssey,” Odysseus and his men arrive at a beach in search of supplies and encounter a nasty surprise in the form of angry giants, who proceed to kill a group of men. Like the deadly surprise of the Greeks, a handful of unfortunate moviegoers sail blindly into treacherous waters with fateful consequences. Some
Actors who have worked with Nolan say he leads by example. “He’s not going to ask anyone to do anything that he’s not a thousand percent willing to do himself, twice as hard,” Robert Downey Jr. said in a 2024 Vanity Fair interview with fellow “Oppenheimer” stars Cillian Murphy and Emily Blunt. Murphy said one
Matt Damon said Jon Bernthal inspired the rest of the cast with a grueling scene early in production. Damon recalled that Bernthal was half submerged in freezing water in Morocco during the winter while filming a scene inside the Trojan Horse. “Jon was shaking, putting his hands together and pressing down to get the chills
It’s not a good time to discover you’ve misread your movie ticket, but 3.20am on a Saturday outside the Imax in central London is a particularly bad time. The movie started at 4:15am, not 4am as I had previously thought. It was 15 minutes of sleep I would never get back, on top of the
Nolan took everyone by surprise when this unique crime novel hit the festival circuit. But by the time the film was released in theaters, Nolan was already considered a future star. The film has a great performance from Guy Pearce as a man searching for his wife’s killer while suffering from short-term memory loss, but
