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Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey: The Line Between Intelligence and Hubris
Some stories survive because they were well told. Others survive because, even after thousands of years, we still have not found an answer to the question they first asked. The Odyssey belongs to…
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Spielberg Was Never Really Making Movies About Aliens.
Steven Spielberg has spent decades making films about extraterrestrials. I think he’s always been talking about us instead.
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🎬 Back to the Future — Going Back to the Past to Understand the Present
Back to the Future is my favorite movie of all time . Not only because I think it is an almost perfect adventure, but because it has something very few films manage to achieve: I can watch it over…
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🎬 Back to the Future Part II — The Future Can Also Become the Past
After a first film that, to me, works almost like a perfect mechanism, Back to the Future Part II had one of the hardest problems any sequel can face: continuing a story that did not really need to…
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🎬 Back to the Future Part III — The Future Is Still Unwritten
If Back to the Future Part II turns time into an increasingly complicated puzzle, I like to think of Part III as a film trying to do exactly the opposite: simplify everything again . After 1985,…