It’s a common theme in Hollywood: women tend to be torn down by a bunch of obsessive internet users who have nothing else to do with their time. We’ve seen it with just about every famous woman out there, and even though Anne Hathaway is acting royalty, she was not immune to the scorching hate […]
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Christopher Nolan Has Already Started Working On His Post-‘Oppenheimer’ Movie
Christopher Nolan collected a reported $72 million paycheck for Oppenheimer, which grossed nearly $1 billion at the box office and won two Oscars, Best Picture and Best Director. What will he do for a follow-up? We might find out sooner rather than later: according to Puck, Nolan has “already started writing” his next feature. Nolan […]
Read MoreThe Oscars’ Spectacle of Seriousness
If there was a common theme to the films featured at this year’s Oscars, it was precisely this sort of psychic slippage, whether expressed through characters catching a glimpse of a broken world beyond their ostensible purview (Poor Things); ones ensnared within contentious cultural heritages (Past Lives, American Fiction); or else trying to reconcile their […]
Read MoreRobert Downey Jr. Gave A Predictably Entertaining And Humbled Speech When Winning His First Oscar: ‘I’d Like To Thank My Terrible Childhood’
In Oppenheimer Robert Downey Jr. gave arguably his most intense performance. As Lewis Strauss, the government bureaucrat who destroys the career of J. Robert Oppenheimer (and maybe the future), he’s arrogance and entitlement personified, and the last hour is basically a prolonged panic attack. But when Downey won the Best Supporting Oscar, as predicted, at […]
Read MoreChristopher Nolan Really Wants To Make A Horror Movie, Even Though He’s Already Made The Terrifying ‘Oppenheimer’
Christopher Nolan, like his fellow “Barbenheimer” auteur Greta Gerwig, can pretty much do whatever he wants next. But what will that be? Yet another World War II picture? Yet another, very serious comic book movie? Maybe one of those noodly one-offs that transcend time and space and audience’s brain power? Maybe he could do an […]
Read MoreBefore ‘Iron Man,’ Robert Downey Jr. Wanted To Do Another Superhero Movie With Future ‘Oppenheinmer’ Director Christopher Nolan
The original big screen Iron Man movie didn’t just kickstart the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It gave Robert Downey Jr. a new act. Back then the actor, who went drug-free in 2003, was still seen as a potential liability, risky to cast. That didn’t stop him from delivering some of his best, most exciting work, in […]
Read MoreFlorence Pugh Said On ‘Oppenheimer’ A Camera Broke At The Most Inopportune Time (During One Of Its Semi-Controversial Sex Scenes)
Oppenheimer is that rarest of movies: a modern movie that’s a) not part of a franchise, b) rated R, c) about adult (that is, serious) subject matter, and d) both critically acclaimed and a big-time money-gobbler. Oh and there’s this: it features a sex scene. No one does sex scenes in mainstream movies anymore. They’re […]
Read MoreOppenheimer Is Leading This Year’s Oscar Nominations
Eleven nominations, including best picture, directing for Yorgos Lanthimos, actress in a leading role for Emma Stone, and actor in a supporting role for Mark Ruffalo Our review, “Poor Things Is a Glorious Mash-Up” by Annie Berke, said: The movie may be the most broadly appealing of his films to date, the most palatable to those […]
Read MoreRobert Downey Jr. Says Christopher Nolan Is Such A Workaholic He Doesn’t Even Like It When Actors Go To The Bathroom
In today’s franchise-driven film industry, Christopher Nolan is that rarest of birds: a popular filmmaker who mostly (with some major exceptions) avoids franchises. The Peloton enthusiast can do whatever he wants, and that doesn’t only mean making blockbusters about the father of the atomic bomb. He can also run unusual sets. A few years back […]
Read MoreWhen Does Oppenheimer (Finally) Come To Streaming?
Fans of Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer can finally watch his award-winning historical biopic the way he truly intended: on Peacock’s streaming service. Universal’s summer blockbuster starring Cillian Murphy as the “father of the atomic bomb” lingered in theaters for months, eventually amassing a staggering box office haul before its window closed. From there, the film was […]
Read MoreHere Are All the 2024 Golden Globes Winners and Nominees
Oppenheimer kicked off its march to the Academy Awards in a big way. The film dominated the first major show of Hollywood’s 2024 awards season, the 81st edition of the Golden Globes, on Sunday night at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills. Christopher Nolan’s epic biopic captured five Globes, including Best Picture and Best Director. […]
Read MoreGary Oldman Revealed The Important Way That ‘Harry Potter’ And ‘Batman’ ‘Saved Him’ After His Divorce
Not everyone liked or appreciated Gary Oldman in Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy, but he did manage to wear the heck out of those rectangular-frame glasses, so you have to give him some credit there. The movies came at a weird time in Oldman’s career: he unfortunately had to turn down certain acting opportunities after […]
Read MoreChristopher Nolan Argued That Hollywood Needs Franchises, Actually (But Not Only Franchises)
Going to the movies sure used to be different. For decades and decades Hollywood released all different kinds of fare: rom-coms, survive-the-night thrillers, middlebrow dramas, historical epics, etc., etc. The biggest money-gobbler of 1988 was a drama about estranged brothers, and it starred Tom Cruise. Then in the aughts execs realized there was more money […]
Read More‘Oppenheimer’ Is Making A Triumphant Return To (Some) IMAX Screens After A Money-Gobbling Run
Over the summer, something unlikely happened at the movies: Two non-franchise movies gobbled up a ton of money. Barbie’s success wasn’t too surprising. Oppenheimer’s was, a bit. It’s a Christopher Nolan movie, and the throngs tend to flock to his work, even when they don’t feature millionaire crime fighters. But it’s also a three-hour downer […]
Read MoreChristopher Nolan Does Not Like It When People Call ‘Oppenheimer’ A ‘Biopic’
In an era when Hollywood has gone almost all-in on comic book movies and franchises, it was a big deal this summer when two of the biggest hits were neither. One was Barbie, which, to be fair, is based on a popular toy line (and which kicked off its own Mattel cinematic universe). The other […]
Read MoreOkay, Now Michael Caine Is Officially Retiring For Real After Getting Great Reviews For The Lead In One Last Movie
Michael Caine has been entertaining audiences for some six decades. That’s a while. The guy could use a break. And yet a couple years back the two-time Oscar-winning actor denied claims he was finally retiring. Then last month he claimed he probably was. Now he’s really, officially calling it quits. “I keep saying I’m going […]
Read MoreSpike Lee Loves Christopher Nolan But He Has One Big Thing To Say About ‘Oppenheimer’
In the age of franchises, it’s a big deal that Oppenheimer — an original movie that probably won’t have a sequel — has gobbled up so much cash. Not that it hasn’t inspired controversy. Big as the “Barbenheimer” memes have been, they’ve been met with (very, very understandable) coldness from those in Japan. Even Spike […]
Read MoreWarner Bros. Wanted Christoper Nolan To Cast Leonardo DiCaprio As The Riddler In ‘The Dark Knight Rises’
With Warner Bros. set to introduce a new cinematic Batman in James Gunn burgeoning DC Universe, The Dark Knight Trilogy writer David Goyer has opened up about his experience working with Christopher Nolan on the now-iconic films. In a sprawling interview with the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Goyer revealed that not even the Nolan films […]
Read MorePaul Thomas Anderson Calls The Success Of ‘Oppenheimer’ ‘Nature’s Way Of Healing’
Here’s a fun trivia question to annoy your friends with: which actor is in the two highest-grossing biopics of all-time? I’ll give you a minute. Time’s up: it’s Rami Malek. He’s in both Bohemian Rhapsody, which held the biopic record, and the new #1, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, which recently crossed over $900 million at the […]
Read More‘Oppenheimer’ Just Passed ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ To Nab Another Big Box Office Milestone
Christopher Nolan movies usually Hoover up tons of money — unless they’re released at the height of a once-in-a-century public health crisis — but Oppenheimer still sounded (and honestly still sounds) like a tough sell. It’s three hours long. It’s a grim film about a grim subject. It’s mostly men in rooms talking to (or […]
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