I'm one of those people who's obsessed with outer space. In college I started watching TV shows like The Universe and documentary series like When We Left Earth, and ever since I've devoured anything I can find about the Apollo missions, other planets, spaceships, astronauts, and life beyond our atmosphere. And that extends to science fiction -- particularly… Continue reading My Favorite Things to Watch About Space
Major spoilers for Passengers in this post! If you plan to see it, don't read this yet! Yesterday I saw the movie Passengers. It looked like a popcorn sci-fi flick about two people (Chris Pratt's Jim and Jennifer Lawrence's Aurora) who awake from hibernation sleep on a 120-year ride to a new planet. The trouble is that… Continue reading Why “Passengers” Would Have Made a Great Indie Movie (*SPOILERS)
Moon (2009) is as much a thoughtful mystery as it is a whirlwind psychological profile of a single man, alone on the moon. It has become one of my favorite science fiction films ever. In Moon, Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is finishing up his three-year contract with Lunar Industries, which has him harvesting fuel on the far… Continue reading The Inner Space Mystery of “Moon”
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