The Bulgarian Booker winner on the letter he wrote to JD Salinger, the allure of Homer’s Odyssey and the magic of Thomas Mann
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The sneeze secret: how much should you worry about this explosive reflex? ⊖⊖
It is one of the most powerful involuntary actions the human body can perform. But is a big sneeze a sign of illness, pollution or something else entirely?
How worried should we be about a sneeze? It …
50 days ago
Matt Damon’s best films – ranked! ⊕⊕
Ahead of his reunion with Ben Affleck in thriller The Rip – as well as starring role in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming Imax epic The Odyssey – we run through the best work of one of Hollywood’s most re…
67 days ago
First footage of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey released online ○
Trailer shows Matt Damon as the Greek hero, with Anne Hathaway as Penelope and Tom Holland as Telemachus
The first trailer has been released online for Christopher Nolan’s epic adaptation of Homer’s O…
73 days ago
The Innocents of Florence by Joseph Luzzi review – how abandoned babies spurred a flowering of Renaissance art ⊕
The precarious, cruel but dazzling world of a foundling hospital is brought wonderfully to life by the author of Botticelli’s Secret
Joseph Luzzi, a professor at Bard College in New York, is a Dante s…
3 months ago
Mind the glitch: is Hollywood finally getting to grips with movies about artificial intelligence? ⊕⊕
As Gore Verbinski’s AI-apocalypse film Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die hurtles towards us, it’s clear from the over-caffeinated trailer that we won’t be getting another ponderous parable about robot s…
Epic movie: Christopher Nolan uses 2m ft of film for adaptation of The Odyssey ⊕
The director has revealed suitably epic scale of his forthcoming Homeric adventure, which was shot with Imax cameras and stars Matt Damon as Odysseus
Christopher Nolan says he has used over more than …
4 months ago
AI models may be developing their own ‘survival drive’, researchers say ⊖
Like 2001: A Space Odyssey’s HAL 9000, some AIs seem to resist being turned off and will even sabotage shutdown
When HAL 9000, the artificial intelligence supercomputer in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Sp…
6 months ago
Matt Damon, 54, flexes chiseled chest and biceps while snorkeling off yacht in Ibiza with wife ○
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The Oscar-winning screenwriter was enjoying a break from filming Christopher Nolan 's big-screen adaptation of Homer's The Odyssey
Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan is accused of 'enabling colonialism' as new film shot in war-torn Western Sahara ○
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The Dark Knight director, 54, has been shooting scenes for his new movie The Odyssey in the disputed area of Dakhla.