Mark's Best of 2023

My typically rambling, nonsensical look back at the last year in entertainment.

Movie Review: Oppenheimer

“Do you guys ever think about dying?”

I tend to sort Christopher Nolan’s films into two categories: those that are about filmmaking, and those that try to be about something else.

Discussion: Barbenheimer

“Do you guys ever think about dying?”
“I am become Death, destroyer of worlds.”

As you may have heard, since it’s the biggest cultural divide since... whatever the last big cultural divide was, and also since it’s a headline everywhere, to the point that “Barbenheimer” has its own Wikipedia page (for the moment, at least): on Thursday, July 21st, 2023, two radically different movies will premiere: Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer.