
If you'll allow me for a moment, I want to take you back to 2014, the year of Ellen DeGeneres' Oscar selfie, the Ice Bucket Challenge and – yes – Christopher Nolan's sci-fi epic Interstellar.
As I sat down in anticipation of Nolan's latest, I wondered what was about to unfold before me. I had mostly steered clear of the marketing, with only its initial trailer (which reins in the focus to show a ravaged earth and a natural phenomenon closing in on Matthew McConaughey's Cooper) as my guide.