yes I have read American Prometheus 

Yikes, unfollowing now. I was a big fan of his work building a civilization-destroying bomb, I had no idea he had quoted the Mahabharata during sex.

Memento and The Prestige are certainly his best. There was nothing to compare with the experience of watching Memento in the early 2000s. You could see right away that Nolan was a director of rare talent. And The Prestige is one of my ten favorite films, easily. To paraphrase Lenny, it gets better every time I watch…

Current projections are a 68-million-dollar opening weekend, which is a win by any measure.

someone on twitter said, “Oppenheimer mid-credits scene is Godzilla rising out of the waters”

From what I’ve read in other reviews, the bombings of Japan aren’t depicted onscreen but are shown to haunt Oppenheimer in the latter part of the film.

Y’all forgot the most notorious example - My Neighbor Totoro and Grave of the Fireflies premiered on the same day (April 16, 1988) as a double-feature.

Unfortunately the studios will just pivot to using computer-generated actors. Their greed knows no limits!

didn’t they sort of already do this with the original movie

I think it looks marvellous but I have a reputation for being too whimsical so maybe shouldn’t be trusted.

Tenet came out during the pandemic and so has an asterisk beside its box-office gross, but Dunkirk was a pretty huge success.

Lev Grossman’s Magicians trilogy already did the whole “author who is obviously a stand-in for C. S. Lewis is secretly a child molester” angle.

Real ones know that The Silver Chair is the best Narnia book.

In retrospect, that string of a few weeks that saw Endgame, Rise of Skywalker and the Game of Thrones finale feels like the end of the franchise era, although we didn’t know it at the time.

California and West Virginia were well-chosen, but I would’ve picked Boyhood (or Waking Life, or even Dazed and Confused) for Texas.

I would have chosen Prisoner of Azkaban over Sorcerer’s Stone. It’s the most evocative of all the Harry Potter film scores, with its medieval flourishes, its recorders and harpsichords.

Last year the Ringer had a delightful essay on just how big Ritchson is (roughly planet-sized, it turns out):

yes! Dickens gets rightly criticized for his portrayal of Fagin in Oliver Twist - I once wrote an essay about the antisemitism in that book, and how he was later obliged to make amends to London’s Jewish community - but there’s no evidence that Scrooge was intended to be Jewish.

Given that this is from the director of the first two Paddington movies, I feel confident that it will be beloved by people of all ages.

nope, I think it’s great