Christopher Nolan
Would Grok’s Odyssey be better than Nolan’s?
Elon Musk, who does not rate Christopher Nolan’s film of The Odyssey very highly, has said: ‘Before this year ends,…
Gen Z is going back to physical media
One of my friends has never made her own playlist. “I just get on Spotify and use what the algorithm has…
What the Odyssey means to America
In 1899 Jack London, beginning his career as a writer, sold a story to Atlantic Monthly for $120. Drawing on his experiences during the Klondike gold…
How many people drown in Britain?
Common ground The Commonwealth Games began as the British Empire Games in 1930, yet they did not originate in Britain.…
The cinema is back
The hottest car I ever owned was a 1982 Volkswagen Scirocco GTI in metallic dark green. I once drove it…
Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey is a triumph
Incredible stories, otherworldly creatures, false identities, a cavalcade of trickery: the original Odyssey is packed with everything you could want…
Splitting headache
Oppenheimer is Christopher Nolan’s biopic of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant quantum physicist and ‘father of the atomic bomb’ who…
Why I won’t mourn the death of the cinema
You could smell the stale popcorn and rancid carpet from the other end of the high street but that unmistakable…
To cut a long story short
Tenet is the latest high-concept, time-bending blockbuster from Christopher Nolan and it’s the film that (unofficially) reopens cinemas in the…
Visual, visceral, confusing
Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk has already been described as ‘a masterpiece’ and ‘a glorious, breathtakingly vivid triumph’, but we need to…
Dumb and dumber
Christopher Nolan’s futuristic epic Interstellar isn’t a clever film, or even a dumb film with a clever film trying to…
