Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, The 250 is a periodic trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released every second Saturday at 6pm GMT, with the occasional bonus episode between them.
This week, Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey.
A face. A fleet. A war. A man. A thought. A trick. A trick to break the walls of Troy and burn it screaming to the ground.
At time of recording, it was ranked 122nd on the list of the best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 19th July 2026.
- The Odyssey at The Internet Movie Database.
- The IMDb Top 250 at time of recording.
- Darren Mooney at Second Wind talks about the radical subjectivity of Christopher Nolan, July 2026.
- Darren Mooney at Second Wind talks about the historical and cultural context of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, July 2026.
- Christopher Nolan talks to BBC about “the secret of the Odyssey”, July 2026.
- Jordan Ruimy at World of Reel reports that Austin Butler was supposedly the back-up for Robert Pattinson in The Odyssey, December 2024.
- Ryan Lambie at Film Stories reports on rumours that Christopher Nolan was going to follow Oppenheimer with a period-set vampire movie, October 2024.
- Micah Bailey at ScreenRant reports on rumours that Christopher Nolan was developing a movie based on The Prisoner, March 2024.
- Dan Cooper at Film Stories reports on rumours that Christopher Nolan was planning a gritty reboot of helicopter thriller Blue Thunder, October 2024.
- Kelly Burke at The Guardian reports on the 18km-long IMAX reel of Oppenheimer, July 2023.
- Kwai Wei Kevin Tarn at Business Insider talks about the way in which Oppenheimer pushes the physical boundaries and limitations of IMAX, July 2023.
- Dani Di Placido at Forbes reports on the viral meme of Russell Brand looking through the bible, April 2026.
- Hoyte von Hoytema talks to Empire about the revolutionary leap in IMAX filmmaking on The Odyssey, November 2025.
- Nino Leitner at CineD explores how Christopher Nolan shot The Odyssey entirely on IMAX cameras, July 2026.
- Christopher Nolan talks to Variety about his love of Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II, December 2024.
- Kate Neudecker at Men’s Health reports on how Ralph Fiennes transformed his body for The Return, April 2025.
- Zack Sharf at Variety reports on Christopher Nolan being attached to direct Troy, November 2025.
- Ernesto Valenzuela at MovieWeb reports on how Interstellar became the most watched movie of all-time on Letterboxd, May 2026.
- Ethan Shanfield and Adam B. Vary at Variety report on the box office success of the re-release of Interstellar, December 2024.
- Pamela McClintock at The Hollywood Reporter reports on The Odyssey selling out IMAX a year ahead of release, July 2025.
- K.J. Yossman at Variety reports on The Odyssey breaking box office records at the BFI IMAX, July 2026.
- Patrick Ryan at USA Today reports on the impossibility of securing premium format tickets to The Odyssey, July 2026.
- CT Jones at Rolling Stone reports on the 3am screenings of The Odyssey, July 2026.
- Dan Gentile at San Francisco Gate reports on soldout 3am screenings of The Odyssey, July 2026.
- Brianna Zigler at Entertainment Weekly reports on the central role of hospitality in The Odyssey, July 2026.
- Melissa Beck at The Book Binder’s Daughter considers the importance of “xenia” in The Odyssey, April 2019.
- Emily Wilson talks to Vulture about her translation of The Odyssey, June 2026.
- Emily Wilson talks to The Telegraph about the reaction to her translation of The Odyssey, July 2026.
- Pragya Agarwai at The Conversation considers the geography of The Odyssey, July 2026.
- Bethany Brookshire at National Geographic considers the historical basis of The Odyssey, July 2026.
- Matt Damon talks to Happy Sad Confused about turning down the role of Harvey Dent in The Dark Knight, July 2026.
- Christopher Nolan talks to Empire about production of The Dark Knight, July 2008.
- Michael Hobbes at The Huffington Post considers how millennials are worse off than prior generations, December 2017.
- Laura Clancy, Roseline Gray and Bao Vu at Pew Research Centre consider how many people believe the next generation will be worse off, August 2022.
- Darren Mooney at The Escapist considers Oppenheimer as a deconstruction of “the great man theory of history”, July 2023.
- Christopher Nolan talks to Entertainment Weekly about being humbled by his own son, July 2026.
- Robert Pattinson talks to GQ about making The Odyssey, June 2026.
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