Does Size Matter? This is not going to be a review of “The Odyssey” (2026), which I saw at an AMC Dolby Digital theater on opening weekend, and have already reviewed in a previous column (SPOILERS). This is about the experience of seeing “The Odyssey” in IMAX 70mm. Director-screenwriter Christopher Nolan went to great pains…
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Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” (2026) is pure, undiluted cinema…
******3,000 YEAR-OLD TROJAN HORSE-SIZED SPOILERS!****** On the surface, writer/producer/director Christopher Nolan (“Interstellar,” “Oppenheimer”) is a cross between Ridley Scott (“ALIEN,” “Blade Runner”) and David Lean (“Lawrence of Arabia,” “Doctor Zhivago”); sharing their love of grand spectacle and pioneering visual effects, with a knack for attracting all-star casts who earn their paychecks. With his career marked…
Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar,” ten years later…
******GARGANTUA-SIZED SPOILERS!****** In November of 2014, my wife and I took a friend of ours to see director Christopher Nolan’s then-new space opus “Interstellar” in a massive IMAX 65mm presentation. This was not some all-digital ‘faux MAX’ screening you see in multiplexes today; this was honest-to-goodness, several freaking stories-high IMAX 65 mm film. I could…