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From a 1616 translation to an AI voice reading it aloud, every major Odyssey adaptation ranked — and Nolan’s new film with Matt Damon arrives into that history.
Writing a thousand words a day won’t fix being trapped in a submarine for 18 months. But it might be the only advice that still works down there.
Sam Neill, who died at 78, built a career on men who resisted fatherhood and became the best screen dads anyway — in Jurassic Park and Wilderpeople.
New climate evidence may explain why Polynesian voyagers suddenly sailed east after 1,700 years — the same mystery at the heart of Disney’s Moana films.
















































