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Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) - FILM FREAK CENTRAL
Star Wars: Episode IX -The Rise of Skywalker */**** starring Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Adam Driver, Billy Dee Williams written by J.J. Abrams & Chris Terrio directed by J.J. Abrams by Walter Chaw J.J. Abrams’s Star Wars IX: The Rise of Skywalker (hereafter The Rise of Skywalker) is a breakneck, National Treasure-style quest flick so intent on the prize that it takes its eyes off the goal. It’s slick and frictionless, offering nothing to hold on to and holding on to nothing in return. In it, our heroes rattle off facile one-liners and play around with childish surface emotions as…
The Odyssey: Christopher Nolan film starring Matt Damon and Zendaya receives rave reviews
The film, starring Matt Damon and Zendaya, is director Sir Christopher Nolan's first since Oppenheimer.

Odysseus at the End of Civilization
Nolan’s film confronts the betrayal of the West’s own values.

Odysseus at the End of Civilization
Nolan’s film confronts the betrayal of the West’s own values.

The 2.5-hour AI-generated Odyssey movie is 2.5 hours too long
Going up against Christopher Nolan with AI slop was ill-advised.

The writer who made me love comics taught me to hate them
"...Yes. Father. I shall become a bat."

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Do not go gentle into that good night
Discover the meaning of Dylan Thomas's famous villanelle about death, with an audio recording of the poet reading his classic poem. This poem was featured in the 2014 movie Interstellar.

The Odyssey (2026) - FILM FREAK CENTRAL
****/****starring Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Charlize Theronscreenplay by Christopher Nolan, based on the epic poem by Homerdirected by Christopher Nolan by Walter Chaw The bookshelf of my childhood includes The Chronicles of Narnia, Edward Ormondroyd’s David and the Phoenix, Ray Bradbury’s short stories, Harry Harrison’s Stainless Steel Rat series, Robert Lynn Asprin’s MythAdventures, a whole lot of Asimov and Ellison, Piers Anthony’s Xanth and “Incarnations of Immortality” series, William Sleator’s House of Stairs, a Chinese manga of Journey to the West, and Bernard Evslin’s The Adventures of Ulysses. I read each of these volumes multiple times and draw…

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The Night Masquerade (Binti, #3)
The concluding part of the highly-acclaimed science fic…

What the Seven “Star Wars” Films Reveal About George Lucas
If Lucas had directed nothing but “Attack of the Clones” and “Revenge of the Sith,” he’d still have a place in my personal pantheon.


Premium: The Hater's Guide to OpenAI
Soundtrack: The Dillinger Escape Plan — Setting Fire To Sleeping Giants In what The New Yorker’s Andrew Marantz and Ronan Farrow called a “tense call” after his brief ouster from OpenAI in 2023, Sam Altman seemed unable to reckon with a “pattern of deception” across his time at the company:
