‘The Theory Of Everything’ Review: A Weirdly Elusive Dive Into The Multiverse – Venice Film Festival
Thanks to science fiction, we all have a basic grip on the theory of the multiverse: the idea that there are innumerable parallel worlds in which the chances and choices of the past – the roads not taken, whether by ourselves or the dinosaurs – have split off into alternative stories, endlessly bifurcating into other pasts, other futures that must be peopled, most provocatively, with other versions of ourselves. It is an idea that has proved rich pickings for comic-book adventures, where peril can come from any available universe and there is always a chance of confronting a doppelganger, but German director Timm Kröger has returned to the theory – which dates back to the 1950s – to explore how mysterious, sinister and terrifyingly vast a proposal it really is. This is a theory of everything where everything – that familiar word – is infinite. Where nothing, in fact, is ever going to be “everything.”
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- 9/3/2023
- by Stephanie Bunbury
- Deadline Film + TV
Christopher Nolan is one of the most acclaimed and influential filmmakers of our time. His films are known for their complex narratives, stunning visuals, and original concepts. He has explored various genres, from sci-fi to war to comic book adaptations, and has always delivered memorable cinematic experiences. Here are his top 10 films ranked, after his latest release, Oppenheimer.
10. Tenet (2020) Tenet Trailer
Tenet is Nolan’s most ambitious and mind-bending film to date. It revolves around a secret agent who uses a mysterious technology that can invert the flow of time to prevent a global catastrophe. The film features spectacular action sequences, impressive cinematography, and a stellar cast led by John David Washington and Robert Pattinson. However, it also suffers from a convoluted plot, confusing dialogue, and a lack of emotional depth.
9. Memento (2000)
Memento is Nolan’s breakthrough film that put him on the map as a master storyteller. It follows...
10. Tenet (2020) Tenet Trailer
Tenet is Nolan’s most ambitious and mind-bending film to date. It revolves around a secret agent who uses a mysterious technology that can invert the flow of time to prevent a global catastrophe. The film features spectacular action sequences, impressive cinematography, and a stellar cast led by John David Washington and Robert Pattinson. However, it also suffers from a convoluted plot, confusing dialogue, and a lack of emotional depth.
9. Memento (2000)
Memento is Nolan’s breakthrough film that put him on the map as a master storyteller. It follows...
- 7/23/2023
- by amalprasadappu
- https://thecinemanews.online/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/IMG_4649
In the late 19th century, the legendary chemist and inventor Alfred Nobel discovered the destructive potential of nitroglycerin and invented dynamite, an explosive that, along with its other subsidiaries, not only changed the course of human civilization but also made global warfare even more destructive. For his invention, Alfred Nobel was called an ‘Emissary of Death’, a title he regretted so much that he wished to leave a legacy that could absolve him of the sin of creating a means of mass destruction. To do that, he left the majority of his fortune to create the prestigious Nobel Prize, which has since awarded excellence in various streams of science, but most importantly in peace.
Almost half a century later, another brilliant mind who was fascinated with the intricacies of molecules, J. Robert Oppenheimer, tried to harness the energies of stars and create a nuclear fission reactor in weaponized form, which...
Almost half a century later, another brilliant mind who was fascinated with the intricacies of molecules, J. Robert Oppenheimer, tried to harness the energies of stars and create a nuclear fission reactor in weaponized form, which...
- 7/22/2023
- by Siddhartha Das
- Film Fugitives
Italy’s Cam Film and Fremantle’s The Apartment have teamed up to acquire rights to bestselling Italian author Carlo Rovelli’s “Helgoland,” an origin story about quantum physics, with plans to turn the book into a high-end TV series.
A bestseller in Italy, “Helgoland” will soon be published in the U.K. and elsewhere around world. It’s the story of quantum physics, the theory that has given rise to modern technology — the computer chip, for one — and atomic energy, but also to philosophical considerations and a new understanding of how just about everything works.
Rovelli’s previous books, “Seven Brief Lessons on Physics,” “Reality Is Not What it Seems” and “The Order of Time” are all international bestsellers, translated into 41 languages. He is a theoretical physicist who has worked in Italy and the U.S.
“In June 1925, 23-year-old Werner Heisenberg, suffering from hay fever, retreated to a treeless,...
A bestseller in Italy, “Helgoland” will soon be published in the U.K. and elsewhere around world. It’s the story of quantum physics, the theory that has given rise to modern technology — the computer chip, for one — and atomic energy, but also to philosophical considerations and a new understanding of how just about everything works.
Rovelli’s previous books, “Seven Brief Lessons on Physics,” “Reality Is Not What it Seems” and “The Order of Time” are all international bestsellers, translated into 41 languages. He is a theoretical physicist who has worked in Italy and the U.S.
“In June 1925, 23-year-old Werner Heisenberg, suffering from hay fever, retreated to a treeless,...
- 2/2/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Director Uli Edel (The Baader Meinhof Complex) has signed on to direct the historic drama Heisenberg, about the Nazi's pursuit of the atomic bomb.
Edel will adapt Richard von Schirach's factual best-seller The Night of the Physicists: Operation Epsilon: Heisenberg, Hahn, Weizsäcker and the German Bomb for the screen. The book draws from secret recordings made by the Allies of the physicists involved in the German nuclear program, including Werner Heisenberg, Otto Hahn and Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker. Arrested and interned in an English country house in the spring of 1945 and unaware they were being recorded, the ...
Edel will adapt Richard von Schirach's factual best-seller The Night of the Physicists: Operation Epsilon: Heisenberg, Hahn, Weizsäcker and the German Bomb for the screen. The book draws from secret recordings made by the Allies of the physicists involved in the German nuclear program, including Werner Heisenberg, Otto Hahn and Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker. Arrested and interned in an English country house in the spring of 1945 and unaware they were being recorded, the ...
Director Uli Edel (The Baader Meinhof Complex) has signed on to direct the historic drama Heisenberg, about the Nazi's pursuit of the atomic bomb.
Edel will adapt Richard von Schirach's factual best-seller The Night of the Physicists: Operation Epsilon: Heisenberg, Hahn, Weizsäcker and the German Bomb for the screen. The book draws from secret recordings made by the Allies of the physicists involved in the German nuclear program, including Werner Heisenberg, Otto Hahn and Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker. Arrested and interned in an English country house in the spring of 1945 and unaware they were being recorded, the ...
Edel will adapt Richard von Schirach's factual best-seller The Night of the Physicists: Operation Epsilon: Heisenberg, Hahn, Weizsäcker and the German Bomb for the screen. The book draws from secret recordings made by the Allies of the physicists involved in the German nuclear program, including Werner Heisenberg, Otto Hahn and Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker. Arrested and interned in an English country house in the spring of 1945 and unaware they were being recorded, the ...
Most fans of film (especially comedies) may recall this quick three or four-second gag from that iconic 1980 comic smash Airplane. The stewardess is walking up the center aisle, clutching a load of magazines. Spotting a white-haired grandmotherly-type she asks, “Would you care for something to read?” “Do you have anything light?” “How about ‘Famous Jewish Sports Legends’?”. Then Julie Haggerty hands the elderly passenger a very thin (maybe a folded page) leaflet. Got a pretty good chuckle back then. Well, the subject of this new documentary feature is worthy of a thick book (and he has). It’s a life full of drama and danger, about a man of such varied interests, he could be the hero of a thriller. And he was, in last year’s The Catcher Was A Spy, played by Ant-Man himself, Paul Rudd, no less. So many historical figures and celebrities crossed path with this man,...
- 6/28/2019
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
There aren’t a lot of sports stars who could claim to be as interesting as Moe Berg, a Major League baseball player who spoke nearly a dozen languages, blew audiences away on quiz shows, and worked as a spy for the United States government during World War II. Berg nearly assassinated German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg. Take that, Dwayne Johnson.
Berg, who got his own biopic last year is now the subject of a major documentary. “The Spy Behind Home Plate.” Written and directed by Aviva Kempner (“The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg”), the film assembles pundits, contemporaries and family members, combining new and archived interview footage to reveal the many incredible facets of Berg’s life.
Nimble and efficient, “The Spy Behind Home Plate” races through that life at a steady clip, unloading one fascinating biographical tidbit after another. The action may be staid — it’s a talking-heads documentary,...
Berg, who got his own biopic last year is now the subject of a major documentary. “The Spy Behind Home Plate.” Written and directed by Aviva Kempner (“The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg”), the film assembles pundits, contemporaries and family members, combining new and archived interview footage to reveal the many incredible facets of Berg’s life.
Nimble and efficient, “The Spy Behind Home Plate” races through that life at a steady clip, unloading one fascinating biographical tidbit after another. The action may be staid — it’s a talking-heads documentary,...
- 6/14/2019
- by William Bibbiani
- The Wrap
With the 2019 Major League Baseball season officially underway today, check out the trailer for “The Spy Behind Home Plate,” the first feature-length documentary about Moe Berg, the enigmatic and brilliant baseball player who turned spy for the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (Oss) during World War II.
“The Spy Behind Home Plate” is set for a gradual release beginning on May 24, playing film festivals and theaters across the U.S. and internationally.
Berg not only played for the last Washington Senators team to play in a World Series (1933), but he also trained with the Oss not far from the D.C. team’s home, Griffith Stadium. “The Spy Behind Home Plate” features rare historical footage as well as revealing interviews with an all-star roster of celebrities and other individuals from the worlds of sports, spycraft and history.
Also Read: New York Yankees Pitcher Cc Sabathia Joins ESPN as Contributor
“Moe...
“The Spy Behind Home Plate” is set for a gradual release beginning on May 24, playing film festivals and theaters across the U.S. and internationally.
Berg not only played for the last Washington Senators team to play in a World Series (1933), but he also trained with the Oss not far from the D.C. team’s home, Griffith Stadium. “The Spy Behind Home Plate” features rare historical footage as well as revealing interviews with an all-star roster of celebrities and other individuals from the worlds of sports, spycraft and history.
Also Read: New York Yankees Pitcher Cc Sabathia Joins ESPN as Contributor
“Moe...
- 3/28/2019
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
Sienna Miller as Estella Huni, and Paul Rudd as Moe Berg, in Ben Lewin’s The Catcher Was A Spy. Courtesy of IFC Films. An IFC Films Release.
The Catcher Was A Spy is a strange slice of history, about a real-life Jewish Major League baseball catcher with a degree from Princeton and a knack for languages who turned spy during World War II. As catcher Moe Berg, Paul Rudd heads an impressive cast in a historical film with polished good looks and a score by Howard Shore. The film assembled all the right elements for a prestige biopic but does not quite score a hit.
The Catcher Was A Spy is available on-demand from IFC starting Friday, June 22, and in theaters in New York and Los Angeles.
Part biopic and part WWII spy thriller, The Catcher Was A Spy focuses on a particular part of Moe Berg’s life.
The Catcher Was A Spy is a strange slice of history, about a real-life Jewish Major League baseball catcher with a degree from Princeton and a knack for languages who turned spy during World War II. As catcher Moe Berg, Paul Rudd heads an impressive cast in a historical film with polished good looks and a score by Howard Shore. The film assembled all the right elements for a prestige biopic but does not quite score a hit.
The Catcher Was A Spy is available on-demand from IFC starting Friday, June 22, and in theaters in New York and Los Angeles.
Part biopic and part WWII spy thriller, The Catcher Was A Spy focuses on a particular part of Moe Berg’s life.
- 6/22/2018
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
On paper, this should have been a home run. Adapted from Nicholas Dawidoff’s historical biography of the same name, “The Catcher Was a Spy” is a stiff and serene biopic about a man named Moe Berg, an enigmatic Jew who capped off his middling career with the Boston Red Sox by traveling to Nazi Germany under secret government orders to determine if Hitler was building an atomic bomb, and to assassinate the Nobel Prize-winning scientist in charge of the project if so.
It’s a hell of a war story, combining the foreign intrigue of “The Third Man” with the high-wire suspense of “Where Eagles Dare” (with a touch of homoerotic tension drizzled on top for good measure). Throw in an all-star cast that surrounds Paul Rudd’s lead performance with pinch-hitters like (take a deep breath) Paul Giamatti, Mark Strong, Tom Wilkinson, Hiroyuki Sanada, Sienna Miller, Guy Pearce,...
It’s a hell of a war story, combining the foreign intrigue of “The Third Man” with the high-wire suspense of “Where Eagles Dare” (with a touch of homoerotic tension drizzled on top for good measure). Throw in an all-star cast that surrounds Paul Rudd’s lead performance with pinch-hitters like (take a deep breath) Paul Giamatti, Mark Strong, Tom Wilkinson, Hiroyuki Sanada, Sienna Miller, Guy Pearce,...
- 6/22/2018
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
It’s easy to imagine scrappy filmmakers rummaging through the anecdotes of history, searching for amazing-but-true stories to transform into hit movies (or at least some Oscar bait). But it’s not enough merely to find a fascinating nugget of trivia; you also have to turn it into a good film. And therein lies the tragedy of “The Catcher Was a Spy.”
“Catcher” stars Paul Rudd as real-life pro baseball player Moe Berg, whose sporting career was perhaps overshadowed by his bizarre overqualifications: He graduated Princeton, Magna Cum Laude, and was fluent in multiple languages. He made regular guest appearances on highfalutin trivia shows. And to top it all off, he was a spy for the U.S. government during World War II.
It’s the sort of character description that would be wildly implausible if it wasn’t, you know, totally true. Berg’s life is a natural for the movies,...
“Catcher” stars Paul Rudd as real-life pro baseball player Moe Berg, whose sporting career was perhaps overshadowed by his bizarre overqualifications: He graduated Princeton, Magna Cum Laude, and was fluent in multiple languages. He made regular guest appearances on highfalutin trivia shows. And to top it all off, he was a spy for the U.S. government during World War II.
It’s the sort of character description that would be wildly implausible if it wasn’t, you know, totally true. Berg’s life is a natural for the movies,...
- 6/21/2018
- by William Bibbiani
- The Wrap
Paul Rudd takes on one of the most dramatic roles in his career in his upcoming film The Catcher Was a Spy. I’m a big fan of Paul Rudd and he always tends to make interesting and good films with humor. This movie is definitely a departure from what we are used to seeing from Rudd, but he does a great job in it.
The movie is set during World War II and Rudd plays a major league baseball player named Moe Berg, who was a catcher for the Red Sox. It's based on the true story of how he was recruited by the government to assassinate a German scientist named Werner Heisenberg (Mark Strong) who the government believes is developing an atomic weapon for Nazi Germany and they want to stop him.
Before Moe Berg was recruited by the Office of Security Services (the precursor to the CIA), he was a catcher,...
The movie is set during World War II and Rudd plays a major league baseball player named Moe Berg, who was a catcher for the Red Sox. It's based on the true story of how he was recruited by the government to assassinate a German scientist named Werner Heisenberg (Mark Strong) who the government believes is developing an atomic weapon for Nazi Germany and they want to stop him.
Before Moe Berg was recruited by the Office of Security Services (the precursor to the CIA), he was a catcher,...
- 1/30/2018
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
From the start, there’s plenty to like about The Catcher Was a Spy, directed by Ben Lewin and starring Paul Rudd. Based on the fascinating life of pro baseball player Moe Berg and adapted from Nicholas Dawidoff’s book of the same name, this is the type of film that feels slightly out of place at Sundance. There’s nothing particularly controversial about the subject matter, nothing brazen or overly ambitious in the technique. Lewin is clearly angling for a classical Hollywood studio picture aesthetic and he mostly succeeds, only sometimes betrayed by his budget.
Rudd plays Berg, a washed-up catcher who takes on a job with the Office of Strategic Services (Oss) after retiring from baseball. We learn early on that he’s a man of many faces. Unmarried but in a relationship with the longing Estella (Sienna Miller, wasted here) and Jewish but determined to blend in...
Rudd plays Berg, a washed-up catcher who takes on a job with the Office of Strategic Services (Oss) after retiring from baseball. We learn early on that he’s a man of many faces. Unmarried but in a relationship with the longing Estella (Sienna Miller, wasted here) and Jewish but determined to blend in...
- 1/22/2018
- by Dan Mecca
- The Film Stage
IFC Films has acquired the U.S. rights to The Catcher Was a Spy, starring Paul Rudd.
In the historical drama, Rudd portrays Moe Berg, a major league catcher who teams up with the Office of Security Services (the precursor to the CIA) during World War II. The novice spy — is a Jewish Ivy League graduate who speaks nine languages — is quickly trained and sent into the field to stop German scientist Werner Heisenberg before he can build an atomic bomb for the Nazis.
Ben Lewin (The Sessions) directed from Robert Rodat's adaptation of Nicholas Dawidoff's 1994 biography. Sienna Miller, Jeff...
In the historical drama, Rudd portrays Moe Berg, a major league catcher who teams up with the Office of Security Services (the precursor to the CIA) during World War II. The novice spy — is a Jewish Ivy League graduate who speaks nine languages — is quickly trained and sent into the field to stop German scientist Werner Heisenberg before he can build an atomic bomb for the Nazis.
Ben Lewin (The Sessions) directed from Robert Rodat's adaptation of Nicholas Dawidoff's 1994 biography. Sienna Miller, Jeff...
- 1/19/2018
- by Ashley Lee,Hilary Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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