Tag Archives: Christopher Nolan

Nolan brings recent hot streak home in ‘Odyssey’

Posted on July 17, 2026 by reelentropy

As if a vison from the gods themselves, Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has made landfall, a moment in some ways 25 years, in other ways 2,500 years, in the making. Somewhere in the Mediterranean Sea, 12th Century B.C.- 20 years … Continue reading →

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‘Oppenheimer:’ how I learned to love the bomb and start worrying

Posted on July 24, 2023 by reelentropy

10/10 Los Almos, New Mexico, 1940s- The human instinct toward self-destruction has metastasized and now threatens to consume our entire species. Thirty years after a war to end all wars, many of the people who were hurt the worst by … Continue reading →

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Rodriguez’ ‘80s action movie ‘Hypnotic’ written in ‘00s, released in ‘20s

Posted on June 19, 2023 by reelentropy

5/10 Hypnotic, writer/cinematographer/editor/director/producer Robert Rodriguez’ sci-fi/noir action thriller starring Ben Affleck may have been a box office bomb and an objectively bad film, but it’s still a guilty pleasure of mine. I know now that it’s a cheap knockoff of … Continue reading →

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The bust-out of Warner Bros.

Posted on October 15, 2022 by reelentropy

Industrial-scale film distribution dates back to before World War I. In the bad old days with no way to transmit information digitally, movies had to be physically carried from Southern California outward, a supply chain that wound its way across … Continue reading →

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‘The Batman’ is a triumph

Posted on March 4, 2022 by reelentropy

9/10 The Batman is a grueling marathon of angst and anxiety, the perfect balance of a wannabe-hardcore crime story and the real fears that undergird its telling. It is a bold statement of and about Batman in media that could … Continue reading →

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