Alden Ehrenreich plays a Senate aide, a figure who is one of the many government workers standing behind and to the side of the head honchos helping to grease the wheels of power. He has been tasked with guiding Lewis Strauss (Robert Downey Jr.) through Senate confirmation hearings on his nomination as Secretary of Commerce … Read more
Nudity in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer has been censored in other countries, with Florence Pugh being covered by a CG dress. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is the director’s first R-rated film in twenty years, but the film’s nudity hasn’t been accepted everywhere in the world. It’s been reported that Oppenheimer has been censored in several countries outside … Read more
With Barbenheimer living up to the hype, this weekend represents the first time in box office history a film has made over $100 million while a second has earned over $50 million. This weekend was one of those weekends where I absolutely love doing what I do. To be a box office reporter for this … Read more
How do you gauge the filmography of someone who has never made a bad movie? Tasked with ranking the best Christopher Nolan movies after the release of Oppenheimer, I can’t help but marvel at the iconic director‘s incredible oeuvre and hate the idea of organizing any of his pictures ahead of the other. Some of … Read more
Christopher Nolan was “appropriately nervous” about filming the first sex scenes of his career for Oppenheimer. Christopher Nolan has pulled off a lot of amazing things in his movies, but Oppenheimer features something he’s never attempted before on the big screen — a sex scene. J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) has a steamy romance with … Read more
Sometimes the close-ups of people’s faces are interrupted by flash-cuts of events that haven’t happened, or already happened. There are recurring images of flame, debris, and smaller chain-reaction explosions that resemble strings of firecrackers and non-incendiary images that evoke other awful, personal disasters. (There are many gradually expanding flashbacks in this film, where you see … Read more
As a young academic, J. Robert Oppenheimer witnessed the early days of the field known as quantum mechanics. This was more than a new science, one of Oppenheimer’s associates claims, but a “new way to understand reality.” One can imagine Christopher Nolan’s ears perking up when he heard that phrase. As a director, he is … Read more
As Hollywood strikes, cinemas this week will be lit up with a comedy satire, a devastating drama, and last week’s action extravaganza. The time has come for audiences to either venture to a secluded desert town for a revolutionary breakthrough in weapons technology for an unspeakable event like World War II or drive up the … Read more
Oppenheimer star Matt Damon told his wife that he would take a break from acting… unless Christopher Nolan came calling. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is absolutely packed with stars, including Cillian Murphy, Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., and more. This leads me to believe that there’s only one response when the director comes calling … Read more
Actor Robert Downey Jr. has called Oppenheimer the best movie he’s ever been in. Downey Jr., best known for playing Tony Stark/Iron Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, has had a long career of work behind him. Beyond his work in the superhero genre, he has worked with David Fincher in the 2007 movie Zodiac, … Read more