End Credits #308 - August 2, 2023 (Oppenheimer)

This week on End Credits, we tackle the back half of "Barbenheimer". After rolling with Barbie last week as she travelled from the real world to Barbie word and back again, this week we go into the past with Oppenheimer, which is as real as the real world gets. And if you still have a jones for Oppenheimer adjacent material, we will have some recommendations for you.

This Wednesday, August 2, at 3 pm, Adam A. Donaldson and Tim Phillips will discuss:

The Day After Oppenheimer. Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer is a film that covers one of the most famous events in history, and it centres on a man who has both his good and bad qualities. These are the perfect ingredients for a movie, and it's been done in different ways with all sorts of famous historic figures and events, and it's also been done with the invention of the atomic bomb. We'll talk about what to watch after Oppenheimer.

REVIEW: Oppenheimer (2023). He was man plagued by terrible visions, he might have been the first rock star scientist, and without him it's unlikely that the United States would have created the world's first atomic bomb. J. Robert Oppenheimer was a complicated man, and so is the movie that now bares his name. Oppenheimer calls on all of Christopher Nolan's skills as a filmmaker as he tells one man's story spread over multiple timelines and featuring a cast of thousands, but does he overcome his mechanical prowess to find Oppy's humanity?

End Credits is on CFRU 93.3 fm and cfru.ca Wednesday at 3 pm.