timespace coordinates: 1976 – 1978 Jamaica / England
Bob Marley: One Love is a 2024 American biographical drama film based on the life of reggae singer and songwriter Bob Marley, played by Kingsley Ben-Adir, from his rise to fame in the mid-1970s up until his death in 1981. The film is directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green. It also stars Lashana Lynch as Rita Marley, and James Norton as Chris Blackwell. (wiki)
The End We Start From is a 2023 British survival film directed by Mahalia Belo and starring Jodie Comer, with Benedict Cumberbatch, Katherine Waterston and Mark Strong. It is adapted by Alice Birch from the novel of the same name by Megan Hunter. (wiki)
timespace coordinates: the Kitchen, dystopian near-future London
The Kitchen is a 2023 British science fiction drama film directed by Kibwe Tavares and Daniel Kaluuya from a screenplay from Kaluuya and Joe Murtagh. The film stars Kane Robinson, Jedaiah Bannerman, Hope Ikpoku Jr, Teija Kabs, Demmy Ladipo, Cristale, and BackRoad Gee. (wiki)
timespace coordinates: 1973 on an uninhabited island off the Cornish coast
Enys Men (Cornish for ‘Stone Island’) is a 2022 British experimental folk horror film shot, composed, written and directed by Mark Jenkin. Shot on 16 mm film, it stars Mary Woodvine, Edward Rowe, Flo Crowe and John Woodvine. (wiki)
timespace coordinates: christmas eve 1957 RAF Celle in northern Germany > RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk
Based on The Shepherd by Frederick Forsyth (1976). Although this is the short story’s first screen adaptation, the story has been read nearly every Christmas Eve, or the Friday night closest to it, on CBC Radio One’s radio show, “As it Happens” by Alan Maitland since 1979.
timespace coordinates: 1920’s Cambridge, Göttingen, Switzerland > 1930’s California, 1940’s Los Alamos, New Mexico, 1950’s Washington, D.C.
Oppenheimer (/ˈɒpənhaɪmər/ OP-ən-hy-mər) is a 2023 epic biographical thriller film written and directed by Christopher Nolan. It stars Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist credited with being the “father of the atomic bomb” for his role in the Manhattan Project—the World War II undertaking that developed the first nuclear weapons.
Based on the 2005 biography American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, the film chronicles the career of Oppenheimer, with the story predominantly focusing on his studies, his direction of the Manhattan Project during World War II, and his eventual fall from grace due to his 1954 security hearing.
The film also stars Emily Blunt as Oppenheimer’s wife “Kitty”, Matt Damon as head of the Manhattan Project Leslie Groves, Robert Downey Jr. as U.S. Atomic Energy Commission member Lewis Strauss, and Florence Pugh as Oppenheimer’s communist lover Jean Tatlock. The ensemble supporting cast includes Josh Hartnett, Casey Affleck, Rami Malek, and Kenneth Branagh.
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Oppenheimer’s simultaneous release with Warner Bros.’s Barbie led to the Barbenheimer cultural phenomenon, which encouraged audiences to see both films as a double feature. (wiki)
timespace coordinates: 2023 / 1941 / 1890 / 2053 London
Bodies is a British crime thriller limited series primarily written and created for Netflix by Paul Tomalin, based on the DC Vertigo graphic novel of the same name written by Si Spencer and illustrated by Dean Ormston, Tula Lotay, Meghan Hetrick, and Phil Winslade. The series consists of eight episodes and premiered on Netflix on 19 October 2023. (wiki)
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