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The Dark Knight is overrated.

July 21, 2025 by thestakemag 1 Comment

A movie need not be great to be beloved.

Filed Under: Featured, Movies Tagged With: Christopher Nolan, Overrated, The Dark Knight

Dunkirk Review: a deep, elemental war story & Nolan’s best

July 18, 2025 by Christopher ZF Leave a Comment

After 20 years, Nolan remains an artist on the ascendance.

Filed Under: Movies, Reviews Tagged With: Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk

The Stake Podcast Episode 15: 2014 Year in Review

December 10, 2024 by Christopher ZF 1 Comment

Navigating the difficult stories, and celebrating the biggest surprises of 2014

Filed Under: Stake Podcast Tagged With: 2014, Amazon, Ben Affleck, Bill Cosby, BlackLivesMatter, Christopher Nolan, DC, Eric Garner, Ferguson, Guardians of the Galaxy, Late Night, Marvel, Matthew McConaughey, movies, Netflix, Rolling Stone, She Makes Comics, Stephen Colbert, Zack Snyder

Erik Wernquist’s Wanderers, climate change, and sailing forbidden seas

December 1, 2025 by Christopher ZF Leave a Comment

The search for Earth-like planets should remind us that what we need is earth.

Filed Under: Movies Tagged With: Carl Sagan, Christopher Nolan, Erik Wernquist, Herman Melville, Interstellar, Moby Dick, Wanderers

How Interstellar’s portrait of loneliness left one viewer in tears

November 18, 2025 by thestakemag 3 Comments

The movie captured and conveyed utter loneliness in a way no movie ever has.

Filed Under: Movies Tagged With: Anne Taylor, Christopher Nolan, Interstellar, Loneliness, movies, Space

The Stake Podcast Episode 12: Christopher Nolan, Interstellar and the Case for Scientific Cinema

November 14, 2025 by Christopher ZF 1 Comment

You probably don’t know the physics of Interstellar. Does it matter if its scientifically accurate?

Filed Under: Stake Podcast Tagged With: Alfonso Cuaron, Christopher Nolan, Dark Knight, Gravity, Heath Ledger, Inception, Interstellar, James Cameron, Kip Thorne, movies, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Phil Plait, Physics, Sci-Fi, Science-Fiction, The Prestige, Titanic

Interstellar, quantum physics and Christopher Nolan’s soft science

November 6, 2025 by thestakemag 1 Comment

communicating the holy mysteries of quantum physics to the unwashed masses

Filed Under: Movies, Reviews Tagged With: Christopher Nolan, Forest Lewis, Interstellar, Jessica Chastain, Matthew McConaughey

Christopher Nolan’s most-debated shot

November 5, 2025 by Andrew DeYoung Leave a Comment

A minority interpretation.

Filed Under: Movies Tagged With: Christopher Nolan, Inception

Are you rich and stupid? Buy this!

February 28, 2025 by Christopher ZF Leave a Comment

The Batmobile is a great bit of fiction. Let’s keep it that way.

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Batman, Christopher Nolan, wealthy nonsense

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