Review of the film “Oppenheimer” / Oppenheimer
Each new film by Christopher Nolan is an event in itself. The director has long established himself as a first-class visionary, capable of making an intense and…
Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt and Robert Downey Jr. in exclusive photos of Christopher Nolan’s biopic “Oppenheimer”/Oppenheimer
Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is one of next year’s most anticipated films, so it’s no surprise that it’s on the cover of the upcoming issue of British film…
The war Hollywood won’t touch: where are the big-budget films about the Falklands?
Cinema returns to the same conflicts time and again. For the generations born after the Second World War, the popular image of history’s greatest battles come from the…
Hans Zimmer delivers a cinematic juggernaut of a show (for good and ill)
If you’ve watched a few Hollywood smashes over recent decades, then it’s near-inevitable that you’ve heard the multi-award-winning work of Hans Zimmer. The Frankfurt-born composer and musician…
The cloud hanging over Christopher Nolan’s explosive Oppenheimer biopic
“I am become Death, destroyer of worlds.” That line, from the epic Hindu poem Bhagavad Gita, was what came to J Robert Oppenheimer’s mind as he watched…
A plea to Hollywood: make Batman fun again
From his self-consciously noir-ish voiceover (“Fear is a tool… two years of nights have turned me into a nocturnal animal”) to his character’s emo-styled black eyeliner and…
Christopher Nolan’s greatest trick: the dark magic of The Prestige
Christopher Nolan is mainstream cinema’s prince of darkness. From his 2000 breakout Memento, a nihilistic, time-turning revenge fantasy; through three gritty, decaying Batman movies (tied, indelibly, to…