******SPACESHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!****** One day, back in 2004, I was perusing my local Barnes & Noble bookstore when I came across a large coffee table book titled “Voyage to the Planets” (originally titled “Space Odyssey” in the UK), written by Tim Haines and Christopher Riley. The cover featured a photorealistic image of a young astronaut standing…
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“Outland” (1981) sends Sean Connery to clean up Jupiter’s dirty moon…
“This moon ain’t big enough for the both of us.” From all accounts, writer/director Peter Hyams (“Capricorn One,” “2010: The Year We Make Contact” ) wanted to make an honest-to-goodness western in the late 1970s, but following on the successes of “Star Wars” and “ALIEN”, it was clear that the big money at that time…
Netflix’s “The Midnight Sky” (2020) offers bleak escapism but with seeds of hope…
*****JOVIAN MOON-SIZED SPOILERS AHEAD!!***** Netflix’s new sci-fi drama “The Midnight Sky” is a bleak tale of a sickly researcher struggling to warn a returning manned spacecraft away from returning to a dying Earth. While that may not sound like a great night of home-viewing during the deadly COVID-19 pandemic, the film makes for accessible message-heavy…
“The Wandering Earth” (2019) is an ambitious Sino-sci-fi epic that gets a little lost in space…
The current Chinese blockbuster, “The Wandering Earth” (based on a novella by Cixin Liu), is “Armageddon” meets “Snowpiercer,” with a touch of “The Day After Tomorrow.” The entire Earth in peril, engaging leads, a few one-note comedic supporting characters, and tons of action. It’s rubber-stamped box office bank. Director Frant Gwo puts together an amazing-looking…