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Steven Spielberg says The Dark Knight should have received a Best Picture nomination

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If we remembered the 81st Academy Awards in 2009, we’d recall the push to see The Dark Knight take home some major awards. While the film was nominated for various awards, it was left out of the conversation for Best Picture come Oscar night. One of the Oscar’s most beloved filmmakers, Steven Spielberg, is saying […]

Trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer makes its way online

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After appearing in front of James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water in most theatres this weekend, the trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer has now been released online. Watch it below… “The IMAX-shot epic thriller thrusts audiences into the pulse-pounding paradox of the enigmatic man who must risk destroying the world in order to save it.” Featuring alongside Cillian […]

New poster for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer featuring Cillian Murphy

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Coming in hot – white hot, in fact – on the heels of yesterday’s promotional images, we now have a new poster for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer featuring Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer as he observes first hand the terrifying achievement of the Manhattan Project with ‘Trinity’, the world’s first ever nuclear explosion.  SEE ALSO: […]

Of course, Christopher Nolan recreated an atomic bomb detonation with practical effects for Oppenheimer

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Christopher Nolan is a filmmaker who loves the art of filmmaking. He’ll go to no end to make his art form the truest it can be, like creating the first nuclear weapon detonation with no computer graphics, for example. The Oppenheimer director opened up about his upcoming film, which follows J. Robert Oppenheimer, a key […]

Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt and Robert Downey Jr. featured in new Oppenheimer images

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Universal Pictures has offered fans a sneak peek at Christopher Nolan’s hotly-anticipated next film Oppenheimer with the release of several new images from the biographical thriller featuring stars Cillian Murphy as Manhattan Project director J. Robert Oppenheimer, Emily Blunt as his wife Kitty Oppenheimer, and Robert Downey Jr. as Lewis Strauss, chairman of the US Atomic […]

WB reportedly kept Tenet delay to just two weeks to please Christopher Nolan

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Tenet was recently delayed by just two weeks due to the pandemic but it would have reportedly been for longer if Christopher Nolan hadn’t been an issue. Christopher Nolan’s next sci-fi thriller Tenet is a film fans have been looking forward to seeing once cinemas reopen around the world. Nolan himself has been pushing for […]

The Dark Knight Trilogy Batman and Catwoman action figures unveiled by Soap Studio

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Sideshow and Soap Studio have unveiled the 1:12 scale Batman and Catwoman action figures which are based on the appearance of Christian Bale as the Caped Crusader and Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle in Christopher Nolan’s acclaimed Dark Knight Trilogy. The collectibles are available to pre-order now; check out the promotional images here… SUPPORT FLICKERING […]

Who are the contemporary Masters of Cinema?

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Anghus Houvouras on the contemporary Masters of Cinema… Sometimes a good movie conversation can lead you to interesting places. Take the discussion around the wildly overpraised Baby Driver; a good movie that’s being called a ‘masterpiece’ (it’s not). During the discussion my friend Simon Columb posted this on Twitter: Edgar Wright ain't no "master". Bloomin' […]

Christopher Nolan discusses Dunkirk’s narrative structure and the significance of the battle

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Christopher Nolan is pretty much the reigning modern-day king regarding captivating yet highly complex storytelling, a trademark that is returning for this summer’s hotly anticipated World War II epic Dunkirk. Despite looking relatively straightforward in its first trailer [watch it here], we should have known the director would have some tricks up his sleeve. Speaking […]