Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky
Episode 96: Oppenheimer
Released 18 December 2024
For this episode, we watched the 2023 Best Picture winner Oppenheimer written and directed by Christopher Nolan, based on American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J Sherwin. The cast includes Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr, Florence Pugh and Josh Hartnett, with acting Oscars for Murphy and Downey, contributing to its total of seven awards. We also discuss Barbenheimer, dream sequels and Sylvia Simms.
- No CGI is really just invisible CGI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ttG90raCNo
BEST PICK – the book is out now from all the usual places, including…
- From the publisher https://tinyurl.com/best-pick-book-rowman
- UK Amazon https://amzn.to/3zFNATI
- US Amazon https://www.amzn.com/1538163101
- UK bookstore https://www.waterstones.com/book/9781538163108
- US bookstore https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/best-pick-john-dorney/1139956434
- Audio book https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Best-Pick-Audiobook/B09SBMX1V4
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