Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” has finally arrived. The biopic about the theoretical physicist who ran the Manhattan Project is one of the year’s most hotly anticipated and highly rated movies. It’s also one of the most historically accurate films ever made. Oppenheimer has been praised for its[…]
The thought is almost fanciful: Two of history’s most famous scientists living right down the street from each other. But it happened, and the lives of J. Robert Oppenheimer and Albert Einstein intersected more than one might think. For approximately eight years, Oppenheimer and Einstein were […]
The phrase “take in the sheets” in the movie Oppenheimer has a dual meaning. On the one hand, it is a literal reference to the sheets used to clean up the aftermath of the Trinity test, the first atomic bomb test. The sheets were soaked in radioactive material and had to be carefully handled and[…]
Watching the film is like watching a bomb explode in slow motion. There’s hardly a moment to catch your breath as the breakneck pace and Ludwig Göransson’s thundering score rush viewers from one fragmented scene to the next. Equal parts horror movie and dark historical epic, “Oppenheimer” wastes[…]
This summer, renowned filmmaker Christopher Nolan returns to the big screen with “Oppenheimer,” his second movie based on actual wartime events, the first was “Dunkirk” (2017). This time, however, he’s not taking us to the frontlines of World War II but instead dealing with the complicated proces[…]