Category Archives: Film Reviews

Decay: The LHC Zombie Film

Posted on December 8, 2012 by woit

Today is the release date for the film Decay, described as “a zombie film made and set at the LHC, by physics PhD students”. It’s available for download here, on Youtube here. The plot is summarized as The film follows … Continue reading →

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The Big Bang

Posted on May 15, 2011 by woit

There’s a new film out this weekend with a particle physics theme (no string theory), called The Big Bang, starring Antonio Banderas. I figured that it’s my duty to cover this kind of popular culture use of particle physics, so … Continue reading →

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Dark Matter

Posted on April 13, 2008 by woit

Yesterday evening I went to see the new film Dark Matter, which opened here in New York this weekend. In many ways, it’s very good, much better than I was expecting. The plot is loosely based upon the story behind … Continue reading →

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Down the Rabbit Hole

Posted on February 5, 2006 by woit

About a year and a half ago I wrote here about going to see the movie What the Bleep Do We Know?, a rather spectacularly stupid and lunatic film which extensively misuses quantum mechanics. This weekend, a sequel called What … Continue reading →

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What the Bleep Do We Know?

Posted on September 27, 2004 by woit

Last night I went to see a movie which was advertised as being about quantum physics, called “What the Bleep Do We Know?”. I was expecting something pretty dumb, but am always interested to see what people think about quantum … Continue reading →

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