There are few film composers who have crossed over into the mainstream in a way where even casual filmgoers will recognize the name. Hans Zimmer is one of those people. With so many iconic film scores throughout his career, the composer has a legion of fans who will gladly debate about which work is his best? Is it “The Dark Knight?” “Dune,” maybe? Or perhaps, “The Lion King?” Well, if you want to take Zimmer’s own opinion into account, he has finally revealed his choice for his single best work.

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Most of us were thrown off when Warner Bros. and Christopher Nolan announced a “Tenet” promotion within the popular battle royale video game “Fortnite.” The idea felt a little “How Do You Do Fellow Kids?” scene from “30 Rock“; seemingly a way to give his upcoming sci-fi action film some marketing exposure to a younger demographic that could support the movie.

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There are plenty of things you can debate when it comes to the filmmaking style of Christopher Nolan. Some call his a master craftsman that isn’t the best with plot or character development. Others think he’s one of the best large-scale action directors of all time. And then there’s the discussion about how he uses sound in his films, with some thinking that the dialogue can be muffled and drowned out by the score and/or other sounds happening in the film at that time.

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As China begins to allow its residents to leave their homes and attempt to get back to business as usual, the country is also beginning to reopen its cinemas. As of this week, THR is reporting that 600 to 700 theaters in China have reopened their doors to customers. And to help entice them back to the cinema, the country is using some of the biggest films of all-time.

READ MORE: Chinese Cinemas Will Reopen With Older Films To Allow Exhibitors To Keep 100% Of Revenue

We already reported that China is utilizing older films as a way to ease people back into going to the movie theater, and by releasing previously-run films, the cinemas can keep all the revenue.

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Maybe it’s time to let the old ways of this almost-finished decade die, yeah? But it wouldn’t be complete without our deep dive into the best soundtracks and scores of the 2010s. It’s admittedly somewhat weird and difficult to do. Scores and soundtracks are different beasts; one original musical written for a film that gives it its emotional shape—often the secret MVP of a movie—and the other more of a mixtape, but when well-curated and used next to picture, can be just as deadly and help craft what we know as the visual and aural transcendence that’s known as cinema when it’s at its best.

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Confine man to a tin can floating through celestial vastness, and he will begin to ponder himself and, by extension, his lineage. Questions drift to his mind like passing moons out the bay window. Are his children the only good thing he’s ever created? Do they mean as much to him as the glory of the last frontier? Is the floating man himself but a product of that same glory-seeking in his father?

READ MORE: ‘Ad Astra’: Director James Gray Talks Space Movies, Doing Fellini For Trump & Much More [Interview]

It’s a cold, dark place we find ourselves in the space genre.

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Timothée Chalamet is one of the best actors working today. Since blowing minds with his performance in “Call Me By Your Name,” earning the young actor a coveted Oscar nomination, Chalamet has been one of the biggest names in Hollywood, landing major roles, such as the lead in Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi epic “Dune” and most recently, in the film that could earn him a second Oscar nom, “Beautiful Boy.” And in a new interview, the actor explains how one of his first major roles turned out to be an emotional rollercoaster.

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Before stripping down to lean and mean tension and thrills with this year’s, Oscar contending “Dunkirk,” Christopher Nolan launched arguably the most ambitious movie of his career with “Interstellar.” His sci-fi opus, like all the director’s pictures, begged to be seen on the biggest screen possible, with the best sound system (to further boost Hans Zimmer‘s incredible score). Now, it’s headed back to Blu-ray looking and sounding better than ever in 4K, to make the experience of watching it at home all the more visceral.

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Breaking News everyone, Timothée Chalamet is going to be a star. Yes, it’s a not-so shocking revelation considering the hype his breakthrough film“Call Me By Your Name” has received since it debuted at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival almost 10 months ago, but it’s more than that.  Chalamet is likely to win some critics awards over the next month or so.  He has a strong shot at earning a Best Actor nomination in January.

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“Arrival” unfolds a beautiful science fiction story about time, memory, loss, and yes, big alien ships. And it’s the film’s gorgeous ending that ties all those threads together into something truly stirring and moving, with screenwriter Eric Heisserer rightfully earning an Oscar nomination for his adaptation of Ted Chiang‘s “Story Of Your Life.” However, were it not for Christopher Nolan, “Arrival” would’ve been a very different movie.

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This spring, the first set photos from Christopher Nolan’s hotly anticipated World War II film “Dunkirk” dropped online. The pictures, vague as they are about anything more than the visual aesthetic of Nolan’s film, show what is likely going to be a film of massive scale. And, if Nolan is known for anything, it’s for directing some of the biggest and most inventive movies of the past decade.

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It might be a holiday invented to cynically replicate the commercial success of Mother’s Day, and it might not have its own Garry Marshall movie yet (this is a good thing, now that we think about it), but Father’s Day is still an actual thing. An actual thing that’s coming up on Sunday, in fact. And it seemed to us like a good opportunity to examine one of cinema’s most resonant themes — fatherhood.

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Watch: 15-Minute Video Tribute To Film Fathers

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As kids, we looked ahead to the imminent 21st century and thought of a big bold, sci-fi future. The robot butler and trips to the drug store in hovercars version hasn’t yet arrived, but the first 15 years of this century have been extremely fruitful for big-screen science fiction.

Sci-fi is almost as old as cinema itself —1902’s Georges Méliès’ “A Trip To The Moon” is generally seen as the first example— but it became hugely popular in late 20th century filmmaking in the aftermath of “Star Wars,” if also somewhat watered down.

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The 5 Best Pre-McConaissance Matthew McConaughey Movies

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Across the past decade, we’ve come to associate Christopher Nolan with the kind of grand spectacle that we hardly ever see anymore. From “Batman Begins” through to this week’s “Interstellar” (read our review here, and a different take in our retrospective here) Nolan makes grand movies about big ideas, and sometimes (mostly unfairly, we’d argue) comes in for criticism that he’s not that interested in people.

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Ranked: The Films Of Christopher Nolan

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11 Films To See In November

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Christopher Nolan Says 'Interstellar' Is About "What It Means To Be A Dad”; Plus Check Out New Pics

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