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Leonardo DiCaprio’s 2010 Repression Double Bill: Inception and Shutter Island

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Tom Jolliffe double bills Inception and Shutter Island…  In my latest double bill we’re gonna kick it back a nice round decade to 2010. Leonardo DiCaprio, much as he still is, was one of the biggest stars on the planet. He wasn’t new to working with Martin Scorsese at this point and earlier in the […]

The Joys of Old School Practical Effects

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Tom Jolliffe looks at the use of old school effects and filming techniques and whether they still have a place in the CGI age… Computers are a wonderful thing. The computer generated image has take cinema up to a point where almost limitless creative possibilities are at a film-makers disposable. You can create a whole […]

Tenet: A lesson in how to do a trailer correctly

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Tom Jolliffe on the frustrating trends in modern trailers, and why Christopher Nolan does things the right way… Things are a little funny in the world of cinema right now. It’s quite difficult to get too excited about anything, or at least the prospect of a big ‘event’ movie for the big screen. All that […]

The Christopher Nolan Paradox

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From the luxury of total indulgence to some of the most forgiving and reasonable fans, why Christopher Nolan has it made as a director… He’s one of the best directors of his generation. He leads the way in some ground-breaking technology, whilst being a staunch supporter of old fashioned ways (whether that is shooting on […]

The Last Champions of Practical Work Over CGI

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Tom Jolliffe looks at cinema’s last stalwarts of practical work over CGI in movies… What does the future hold? Technology is wonderful. Constant evolution brings with it new trends. In cinema, the computer generated image has developed exponentially in the past 30 years. From being something of an eye-catching new toy initially (or garish, nightmarishly […]

Interstellar crosses half a billion at the global box office

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Despite being the first Christopher Nolan film since 2002’s Insomnia not to take top spot at the box office in the States, the sci-fi epic Interstellar is enjoying a solid run around the world, with the filming crossing the half billion barrier this past weekend. Having grossed $147.1 million domestically and $395.2 million from international […]

Read Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar prequel comic Absolute Zero

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Thanks to Wired, a seven-page prequel comic to Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi epic Interstellar has arrived online for our reading pleasure. Entitled ‘Absolute Zero’, the the “lost chapter” has been written by Nolan with art from Sean Gordon Murphy and explore’s Dr. Mann’s earlier Lazarus mission to find a hospitable planet for humanity… Read the full comic […]

Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer gets a first teaser trailer

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Universal Pictures has released a first teaser trailer for Oppenheimer, the hotly-anticipated new film from director Christopher Nolan and starring his frequent collaborator Cillian Murphy in the role of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist credited as the ‘father of the atomic bomb’ for his work on the Manhattan Project, the Allied development of nuclear weapons […]

Feast your eyes on the poster for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer

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Following endless casting announcements for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, the film’s official Twitter account was christened today with the first poster for his J. Robert Oppenheimer biopic, which is due to land on July 21st 2023. Check it out in all its explosive glory below…. Nolan’s first film with Universal Pictures, Oppenheimer stars (take a deep […]