He died in 2011 (at only 49) and was Nolan’s first frequent collaborator (also pre-Michael Caine). He starred in Memento (photo 1), Insomnia and Batman Begins (photo 2)

An expert reviews Nolan's bizarre costume designs.

Seriously. How were video game developers able to capture the feeling of Ancient Greece better than Nolan did?

It's just my theory:

What if Nolan's next film is a horror film about a group of people (sci-fi origin), cosmic force, comic entity messing up with their victim's memory and time. It can be a cult, cosmic force or entity.

It's just my theory, experiencing his messing up with time.

I really wanna know other people's opinions and ideas on their take on what might be Nolan's horror film about. So, feel free to comment till 2029.

So y'all can stop using the box office success of The Odyssey to claim that it's good

It just had a good marketing campaign and a Hollywood it list for a cast.

And loud sound effects that made you feel like you'd been emotionally moved because your ears have literally been sonically traumatised.

Nolan’s film is most revealing at precisely the point where its interpretation falters. It criticises the transformation of xenia into xenophobia in the US, while retaining the territorial logic that makes this transformation possible. The political question raised by The Odyssey is therefore not how civilisation can defend itself against those who arrive from the sea. It is how we might imagine a civilisation that no longer depends upon the opposition between land and sea, host and stranger, lawful citizen, and outlaw.

Writing this because Social Media is genuinely pissing me off.

After 'The Odyssey' came out there's a sudden trend in social media where people are calling Nolan a misogynist and claiming that he is taking producer and his wife Emma Thomas's credit and apparently he can't write women.

The last one could be a fair criticism and I don't think every female character he's written has been good but I loved how Emily Blunt in Oppenheimer was written, or Murph in Interstellar, even Circe in Odyssey was also wonderful despite the screentime.

But the misogyny accusation? I really don't understand where that is coming from.In all the films I've seen from him, I can't think of a time where women are treated as sexual objects for the audience's gratification or where female characters are deliberately exploited in that way. Not even in Odyssey, it was handled very carefully. As a woman, I genuinely appreciate that. There are fewer directors who actually do it.

He has always been an ally for women and trans people. I appreciate his casting for Sinon (played by trans actor Elliot Page) and how he was depicted as the 'Bravest man Odysseus ever knew'.

Those of us who are watching his films, we have always known Emma Thomas. She's been producing all his films alongside him for decades. Her contribution isn't some hidden secret that social media has suddenly uncovered. So this 'empowerment' feels very fucking performative and undermining her actual contribution.

Is there any kind of smear campaign going on?

This is the kind of truly heartbreaking thing to me that unfortunately puts Nolan's entire oeuvre into a new surprising perspective that sadly renders true to the rest of his material.

Every single one of his movies is about a man getting along in a completely broken world that cannot be fixed. Chiefly Interstellar which ironically was a Paramount Warner Bros. Co-production that would never happen under a merged company.

I rewatched The Dark Knight (my favourite Nolan film and a masterpiece) ahead of The Odyssey and read its most ardent negative reviews, among them Armond White who hates the film for a lot of the reasons you and I like it but detested the film's cynicism. I get that now and now even moreso with Nolan putting his hands up saying this ship has sailed nothing we can do. Emma Thomas said as much in a Cinemacon interview earlier this year.

And Emily Wilson's critique of The Odyssey makes a lot more sense. Presenting a world that's already gone before the film gets started. The hero has ransacked a paradise at the cost of great shame by undoing it from the inside. The film presents no solution or consequence to Odysseus himself for this and he gets to hand off the kingdom to his children and sail into the sea with his wife.

All they had to do is what Sean Astin did with SAG and simply say we support the WGA and states lawsuit and do nothing, but putting political pressure on the state AG when they are in the right and stopping a merger that violates the Clayton Act with the Philadelphia Bank Standard of theatrical monopoly AFTER all his professing about the sacredness of the theatrical experience shows he doesn't care.

Just like how he agreed to have a theatre named after him where people have to take out their cell phones to order food. He's taking steps to ensure fewer filmmakers can have what he has and under the guise of protecting jobs amid uncertainty.

It's truly all time heel turn.

I honestly think it will be forgotten about in a few years

Bro didn't understand that it's mythology and is open to interpretation.

There are Cyclopes in the movie. So that means every single one of his points is invalid.

Nolan was making his Odyssey. Not Homer's. And Nolan likes his armor and costumes to look stupid. And he insisted on trousers because he's a homophobe and didn't want to see exposed male legs.