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  • Movie Review: “Oppenheimer” (Christopher Nolan, USA 2023)

    Movie Review: “Oppenheimer” (Christopher Nolan, USA 2023)

    Christopher Nolan takes on the well-trod ground of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s life to draw an unmentioned parallel to the current-day discussion of artificial intelligence. In so doing, he creates a very competently made and ultimately frustratingly flawed film. The parallel to current artificial intelligence discussion is a parallel that makes a lot of sense. It’s…

  • Movie Review: “Nope” (Jordan Peele, USA/Japan 2022)

                Nope (Jordan Peele, USA/Japan 2022) is a film attempting to serve many masters at once. It simultaneously seeks to be a summer blockbuster film and an artistic statement. It simultaneously attempts to re-take a mythology out of one genre into its older genre home while also moving that mythology away from its pre-Christian origins…

  • Movie Review: “Interstellar” (Christopher Nolan, USA/UK 2014)

    *Update: Phil Plait has an article up about the science involved in Interstellar. He’s obviously of a very different opinion about the film’s artistic quality than I am, but he really is an astronomer, so trust him about the science. I certainly knew the system orbiting the black hole was wrong and the time dilation…