Corey Atad

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Toronto-based freelance writer @ The Star, GQ, Defector, The Baffler, Gawker, Esquire, Hazlitt. Air Bud admirer. Favourite cheese: Gouda. coreyatad@gmail.com / www.coreyatad.com

“I’m drawn to working at a large scale because I know how fragile the opportunity to marshal those resources is,” the Interstellar director told the outlet. “I know that there are so many filmmakers out there in the world who would give their eye teeth to have the resources I put together, and I feel I have the responsibility to use them in the most productive and interesting way.”
"I think you're missing the narrative point, which is that jumping into black holes is the ultimate act of faith," says Nolan. "He's caught by creatures who you know exist, and you've been wondering who they are for the entire film. Who are they-it's first said in the first act. It's all up front. Who put the wormhole there? And so they're not a deus ex machina; they're specified right from the beginning, whether you like it or not. For people who like the film, they don't read the tesseract as a deus ex machina. They understand where it's coming from." "I do like the film —" "Like it more unreservedly."
quote from Christopher Nolan in the Dark Knight Rises chapter of the book The Nolan Variations: "The Occupy Wall Street movement was right there,” says Nolan. “We literally had to schedule around them. It was very clear to us at the time that the sympathies of the film were very in tune with the sympathies of that movement."
Tweet from Tom Cruise, featuring a photo of Cruise in front of an IMAX 70mm display for The Odyssey, showing off his ticket, along with the message, “Wow! To Chris, Emma, and ALL of your brilliant cast and crew. Thank you for an amazing night in a movie theater. I can’t wait to see it again!”
First of all, comedies are real movies that belong in theaters. Comedies have always existed to remove a bit of despair from being alive. We need to laugh at ourselves, together, in order to keep going. The best comedies allow us to see how close pain is to pleasure, how connected heartbreak is to love, because it makes it all feel inevitable and therefore survivable. When Nora Ephron wrote Heartburn, which would be made into a perfect film by my lord and savior Mike Nichols, she slapped down her own broken heart as a sacrificial offering so that we could understand it didn’t kill her, and therefore might not kill us. Comedy about tragedy is catharsis. Laughing with strangers about regret, resentment, failure, and all the stuff that makes us feel shame, defangs said shame.
tweet from Andrew J Salarzar: For those curious, in addition to his role as The Bard, Travis Scott has a new original song that plays during THE ODYSSEY’s credits. James Blake takes the lead on vocals and it’s produced and co-written by Ludwig Göransson too. Nolan officially in the Cactus Jack crew.
former Maine state senator Troy Jackson
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Emma Vigeland on Twitter: This is an immensely damaging allegation from a credible source. The Platner campaign insisted that nothing new was coming, and that was obviously not the truth. Just devastating.
Racicot said she was contacted by the New York Times in the spring and shared off the record that Platner had assaulted her. She told the Times that she had some positive memories of her relationship with Platner but thought he did not respect women and had cut off contact with him after an incident in 2021 when Platner had come over drunk; but the Times article stated that Racicot “declined to elaborate” about what had happened, only describing his behavior as “reckless” and “unsettling.” A spokesperson for the Times declined to comment.
Paul Giamatti in a scene with Samuel Seder from the failed Fox sitcom “The Show”
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Thomas Chatterton Williams tweet: Ezra Klein attacked Sam Harris and essentially accused him of racism for not having enough black guests on his podcast and then gave Chris Rufo the most softball and deferential interview I could have ever imagined. It’s actually bizarre. Something was really off about it.
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extremely ornate colourful images from the comic Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow
Safe to say, Odysseus and Penelope’s son Telemachus – played by Tom Holland – isn’t best pleased. Pattinson gets it. “I mean, he’s just the worst stepfather you could possibly have,” he grins of Antinous. This is his third time starring alongside Holland, after The Lost City Of Z and The Devil All The Time – and whenever the two pair up, it’s always in a film where Pattinson is going… well, weird. “I always end up doing these slithery things with Tom and I don’t know why,” he says, noting that The Odyssey is no different. “This was just a fun part to play: ‘I just want to be your daddy. I want to be your daddy. That’s all I want!’”
What movies did you watch as inspiration? NOLAN Tarkovsky’s “Andrei Rublev” [1966] made quite an impression on everybody — the textures are pretty remarkable. One of the films I screened as a bit of a flier, like I didn’t really know whether it would be relevant, was Kurosawa’s “Ran” [1985]. It’s shot very differently, but there’s this relationship between the environment and the wind. Now that I look at [our] finished film, I think it was a huge influence.
Paranormal Activity playbook
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Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster, who are dating
Lenin from Eisenstein's October: Ten Days that Shook the World
But with its abiding affection for moviemaking, "Minions & Monsters" could find wider industry support. Even George Lucas lends his voice to the film.