Double Team is a great film, bro.

Yes and no. Kidnap was shown to press a full two days before The Dark Tower (review going up soon), but it is a much, much worse movie.

Uh, Godfrey Reggio? He last put out a movie 4 years ago. He was also, like, in his early 60s by the time he finished the Qatsi trilogy.

"Hammond Song" is where's it at.

It's actually 115 minutes, and boy do you feel every one of them.

Legit confused by this question.

Not really—while all partisans were resistance fighters, only a portion of resistance fighters / members were partisans. A partisan is a soldier in a full-time resistance unit engaged in guerrilla warfare and based in the countryside—a resistance fighter without a civilian identity. Soviet partisans existed both in…

He did. His debut, Bad Fever (mentioned in the review), was set and shot in Salt Lake City.

No, it exists so that you, a commenter who has seen Dunkirk, have somewhere on the site to discuss the movie that isn't a days-old review with a nearly 1000-deep comments section. And you're welcome.

Oh, it's fun! The opening is a really ingenious example of making the most of very limited resources to create a sense of intrigue: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

My pet theory is that directors never outgrow their low-budget roots; the things they did to get attention become reflexes.

It's not, but Nolan is a fancy-pants marquee name, not some former TV comedy director hoping to land a distribution deal at Sundance with a movie that stars a Duplass brother.

Nolan basically never has more than one thing happen in a shot, and he tends to film in singles and cuts quickly. As nice as his movies look and as knotty as they can be, they're not all that sophisticated on that most basic level. This one is.

Nolan depicts unfair hostility on the part of the British to the French troops—refusing to let them on their transports, viewing them as expendable, etc.

The two boats.

Correct, though the "Handel" spelling was always standard in English, and was the way he signed his name at the time. (The Courant also mixes up "concert" as "consort," which is understandable, as "consort" is also a term in baroque music and "concert" was a relatively new word in English at time and this was, after…

No prob.

She voices an alien character. (Someone else did the mo-cap.)

I tend to think they are. They're space adventure stories, whereas "classic" Trek is still grounded in the idea that these are speculative stories with a serial space opera wrapper. A classic Trek story is about what the crew encounters, rather than how they succeed—a key distinction.

Yes it does. "Space opera" is actually several generations removed—a play on "horse opera" (an old derisive term for Westerns that is now used fondly), which was in turn a play on "soap opera." All originally referred to serialized film and radio entertainment (i.e. Western serials, sci-fi serials) from the 1930s.