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

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Tom's new book is out now wherever books are sold.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Red-Dwarf-Discovering-TV-1988-1993/dp/1399034944

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Tom's new book is out now wherever books are sold.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Red-Dwarf-Discovering-TV-1988-1993/dp/1399034944

https://www.waterstones.com/book/red-dwarf-discovering-the-tv-series/tom-salinsky/9781399034944

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