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Last time Christopher Nolan had a new feature in theaters, he was helping save blockbusters, movies, and even summer itself with a three-hour drama about a nuclear scientist. It ruled. Today, he is back in cinemas with his telling of Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey and, frankly, epic is the only word that feels appropriate in my vocabulary.
If you haven’t seen the animated version of the film, watching the live action remake wouldn’t be the worst way to introduce yourself to the story, but renting the animated version would probably get you about the same amount of joy. That being said, if this is your story, if they’re portraying your ancestors or if you feel connected to the people on the screen, then the live action film has a stronger sense of that simply because it uses human actors. You do feel more of a connection as a human to the story simply because of that fact.
After this year’s Seattle International Film Festival, I wrote of the closing-night film, “If there was ever a movie designed in a lab solely for me to enjoy, it would be The Invite.” Since then, I haven’t shut up about how this dinner-party-from-hell, single-location feature from Olivia Wilde has been my favorite movie of the year so far.
This brand-new entry in the franchise delivers a walloping, blood-soaked, full-throttle rollercoaster ride of a great time.
We’re just past the halfway point of 2026; so to commemorate the occasion a few of your friendly neighborhood SunBreakers took stock of the films we’ve seen so far.
Now in their seventh feature, the Minions are back and as ubiquitous as ever, and that’s either a good thing or a very bad thing, depending on your ideology. I fall firmly into the former camp, as I find them cute and funny, even if they are biologically programmed to serve evil.
