Waiting for Odysseus

While there's no canon for the mythological hero, several authors and poets in the centuries since offer differing stories of what happened.

Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey stands as one of the best recent examples of the kind of film that a large studio budget rarely allows in the modern day: a singular artistic vision in a blockbuster featuring a world you can believe in.

The Oppenheimer director's epic film gets a second video game tie-in, after appearing in Roblox earlier this month

Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey movie adapts Homer through a new eye that brings a sense of horror and existential angst to the story – and some humor too. It may not be a perfect movie, but it’s a pretty great moviegoing experience all the same.

Scalpers are successfully reselling tickets to The Odyssey in 70MM IMAX for hundreds of dollars.