A Brief Guide to the Interesting Physicists in Nolan’s Boring 'Oppenheimer'

A Brief Guide to the Interesting Physicists in Nolan’s Boring 'Oppenheimer'

It seems Christopher Nolan can no longer make normal-length films. by Charles Mudede First, Oppenheimer should have been called Oppie. And the shorting of the film's name should have been accompanied by an equally dramatic shorting of the film itself. It seems Christopher Nolan can no longer make normal-length films. Everything that he wants to say is so important that it must and will be said. I lost interest in Oppenheimer after two hours. The…

How Sting (sort of) inspired Christopher Nolan’s new movie, ‘Oppenheimer’

Universal Pictures Christopher Nolan's much-anticipated new movie, Oppenheimer, arrives in theaters Friday, July 21. But it turns out Nolan may have never had the idea to make a movie about "the father of the atomic bomb" if it hadn't been for Sting. As EW reports, Nolan first became aware of J. Robert Oppenheimer when he was a kid in the '80s and heard Sting's song "Russians," an anti-nuclear war track from Sting's 1985 debut solo album, The Dr…

How Sting (sort of) inspired Christopher Nolan's new movie, 'Oppenheimer'

Universal Pictures Christopher Nolan‘s much-anticipated new movie, Oppenheimer, arrives in theaters Friday, July 21. But it turns out Nolan may have never had the idea to make a movie about “the father of the atomic bomb” if it hadn’t been for Sting. As EW reports, Nolan first became aware of J. Robert Oppenheimer when he was a kid in the ’80s and heard Sting’s song “Russians,” an anti-nuclear war track from Sting’s 1985 debut solo album, The D…