Dirty Monkeys’ war comedy-drama “Once Upon a Time in the Middle East” took command of the mainland China box office during the Aug. 14–16 weekend, grossing RMB477.9 million ($70.3 million) over the three-day frame, according to data from Artisan Gateway. Following its Tuesday, Aug. 11 rollout and earlier previews, the production has amassed a cumulative
“The Odyssey” is off to an epic start at the box office. The Universal action adventure generated $264.1 million globally over the weekend, including $139.6 million internationally and $124.5 million domestically. It’s an impressive debut for an R-rated film, nearly three hours long and not part of a major franchise. Of course, “The Odyssey” is
Samantha Morton doesn’t have much screen time in “The Odyssey,” but when she appears about halfway through the epic action, she takes over the movie. In an electrifying sequence that lasts approximately 10 minutes, Morton gives a searing, richly textured performance as Circe, a sorceress who transforms Odysseus’s men into pigs. In Homer’s epic, Circe
Then, a homerist, an archaeologist and a dentist walk into a bar. Fresh from a Thursday night screening of Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” a group of 17 people spent the evening doing what scholars have done with Homer’s epic for nearly 3,000 years: arguing about it. “We had a really intense debate,” says Joel P.
When the first images of Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” surfaced, some of Al Gore’s worst Internet people lost their minds (Elon Musk’s boss among them). They denounced its inaccuracies, even though Homer’s epic poem is not only mythological but also part of an oral tradition in which it was expanded and remodeled over the centuries.