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Emily Blunt is laughing. Talk to the actor for any given amount of time — it could be six hours, might be six minutes — and you’ll hear her do this a lot. She’s a full-body laugher, not the snorting, shaking-fits kind but the pitching-about type, as if she was …
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Batman Begins could have had a very different take on its villain. Following a screening of Oppenheimer at the Aero Theater in Los Angeles last weekend, Robert Downey Jr. revealed that he lobbied director Christopher Nolan to play the part that eventually went to Cillian Murphy. “I’m pretty sure that …
Read More »Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, America Ferrera, and More Become First-Time Oscar Nominees
Nearly a dozen actors will now have an Academy Awards section added to their Awards and Nominations page on Wikipedia. Bright and early on Tuesday morning, Zazie Beetz and Jack Quaid announced the 2024 Oscars nominations live from Los Angeles. With 20 nominees across four acting categories, some names were …
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The Barbenheimer phenomenon was one of the defining cultural moments of 2023. For Variety‘s Actors on Actors special, Barbie‘s Margot Robbie and Oppenheimer‘s Cillian Murphy sat down for a chat to discuss their two films and how movie-watchers set up double features to see the films back-to-back. “People kept asking …
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One of the year’s biggest hits — and a surefire Oscar contender — is Oppenheimer, filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s three-hour epic, captured on sprawling 65 mm, about theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer’s stewardship of the Manhattan Project that created the world’s first atomic bomb, his anxiety over unleashing such a destructive …
Read More »'Oppenheimer' Becomes Biggest Biopic of All Time
Christopher Nolan’sOppenheimerhas overtakenBohemian Rhapsodyas the highest ever grossing biopic. The film starring Cillian Murphy as the father of the atomic bomb, Robert J. Oppenheimer, has now grossed $912.7 million across the globe, taking it pastQueen biopicBohemian Rhapsody’s $910.8 million. Oppenheimerhas already broken box office records this summer. It is Universal …
Read More »The 'Barbie' and 'Oppenheimer' Double Feature Left Me Questioning Reality Itself
The double feature is something of a bygone pleasure. Sure, repertory theaters will curate stacked showings of classic fare or art house favorites for the cultured cinephile in us, but the first-run double — one you might randomly drop into knowing little about either movie — seems the relic of …
Read More »'Barbenheimer' Asks: Who Ruin the World? Men.
This weekend, legions of movie lovers will descend upon theaters, popcorn in hand and catheter in place, girding themselves for the single most unlikely double feature ever conceived by the internet. When it was announced that Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan‘s big-budget, bigger-canvas biopic about the man dubbed “the father of the …
Read More »We Need to Talk About Those 'Oppenheimer' Sex Scenes
The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry, and two films explore that abiding Robert Burns proverb this week: Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan’s IMAX-sized three-hour biopic of the “father of the atomic bomb,” and Barbie, a Mattel-sanctioned deconstruction of the patriarchy from the fertile mind of Greta Gerwig. Only …
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