Filmmaker Christopher Nolan is well-known for his love of puzzles and mysteries, so he layers them into his movies. Tenet is full of them, and in no way are we suggesting we understand the nitty ...

The Romans played with palindromes in the form of the famous "Sator Square." Today, modern artists have created "ambigrams" — words and phrases... Publius Paquius Proculus, they say, invented pizza ...

Andrei Sator may not rank highly among the list of villains in Nolan's filmography but he served his narrative purpose well and Kenneth Branagh's performance (read: his accent choices) was oddly ...

The release of Christopher Nolan‘s latest film, Tenet, was delayed significantly thanks to the pandemic. But it’s finally out in US theaters and, consequently, I got to see it. As expected, it’s ...

Arepo is not a Latin word like the others, but, as David Sherlock, an archaeologist who is an expert on the word-square, told me, it has been wrestled into a meaning: “The sower Arepo holds with ...

Look, there are loads of small details that probably escaped your notice in Tenet. But this clever one is a whopper. WARNING: Spoilers. Filmmaker Christopher Nolan is well-known for his love of ...