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The trouble with Oppenheimer | Opinion

Reflecting on the bleak horror of Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer biopic and asking, hey, isn’t this the plot of Amadeus?

Clouds of steam belching from the towers of a nuclear facility.

Richland (2023): living in the Fat Man’s shadow | Review

Richland is the city that forged the bomb that destroyed Nagasaki. Seventy years later, it still grapples with that legacy

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: the knowledge trap

What Indy’s search for knowledge means for cultures and curiosity

Close-up detail of brutalist concrete building.

The Hunt for Red October (1990): decoding the language trick

Language, lies and symbols of nationhood in The Hunt for Red October

Extreme close-up of the red-hot surface of the Sun

Sunshine (2007) explained: the sound of inevitability

Sci-fi thriller Sunshine finds hope in the darkness of deep space

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Terminator 2 (1991) at 30: are we machine?

Unpacking the social and storyelling tensions at the heart of Terminator 2