Exploring Wes Anderson's 'Asteroid City': Aliens, Ray Guns, and Star Gazers.

Wes Anderson's new film "Asteroid City" and Christopher Nolan's upcoming biographical movie "Oppenheimer" share similarities in their setting, use of color and black-and-white, and focus on nuclear bomb technology in America in the mid-1950s. Both filmmakers are about the same age and have followed similar creative trajectories, with Anderson's films receiving 15 Academy Award nominations and Nolan's receiving 34. "Asteroid City" is currently playing in theaters while "Oppenheimer" arrives on July 21, 2023.