Christopher Nolan has been a fan-favorite director for over two decades now, having put his mark on a slew of different genres. Having totally changed superhero movies with his The Dark Knight Trilogy, Nolan has been instrumental in delivering sci-fi blockbusters too, with Inception and Interstellar, and later the war film with Dunkirk. His latest, […]
The Odyssey is rightly regarded as another cinematic triumph from director Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight, Inception, Oppenheimer). This time, Nolan is bringing his modern filmmaking sensibilities to one of the oldest known texts in the world: Homer’s poem The Odyssey, the second part of his epic saga about Greece’s downfall via the Trojan War, […]
The Odyssey is now in theaters, and like every film Christopher Nolan releases, there is plenty to talk about after seeing it. Nolan truly captured the full scope of Homer’s epic poem, including the lineup of mystical creatures and figures that Odysseus and his men encounter along the way. However, The Odyssey is more than […]
Christopher Nolan has a slew of massive box office hits to his name, but none have been bigger than his Batman films. As one might expect, The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises are the highest-grossing movies of his career, each bringing in over $1 billion worldwide. The combination of Nolan’s distinct filmmaking style […]
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey transforms Homer’s nearly 3,000-year-old epic poem into a modern cinematic blockbuster that many are already calling a “masterpiece.” What’s even more impressive is that Nolan did not take the expected route of grounding the mythical story in the framework of a swords-and-sandals epic; to the contrary, he brought almost every supernatural […]
Any time there’s a new Christopher Nolan movie on the schedule, it’s one of the year’s most anticipated events, but Universal knew The Odyssey was going to be something special even by Nolan’s lofty standards. Tickets for IMAX screenings went on sale a full year in advance and quickly sold out, highlighting just how excited […]
Christopher Nolan appears to have one of the best and biggest films of his career in The Odyssey, and he pulled out all the stops to make it a grand theatrical experience. One of the major ways he accomplished that was by shooting the film with IMAX cameras, but there’s another way that fans can […]
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey turned into the biggest theatrical event of 2026 with an opening week of $264 million. That’s the third-biggest opening of 2026, behind only Toy Story 5 at $159 million and The Super Mario Galaxy Movie at $131 million. Still, given that The Odyssey is R-rated, that opening exceeded every projection. The […]
Christopher Nolan‘s latest blockbuster has finally hit theaters, breaking box office records and earning an unbelievable Rotten Tomatoes score. But long before its release, it was already one of the most talked-about movies of the year thanks to the massive anticipation surrounding it. And that wasn’t just because it was a Nolan film (although that […]
We go to see thriller films for one reason above all else: to get our heart rates up. A quality thriller is not just one that teases the brain with mystery and the constant hint of danger, but one that also affects us physically – a quickening pulse, a drying mouth, palms too sweaty to […]