Racism is unpatriotic Theodore Melfi (2016) When I saw a trailer for this movie and I thought two things: it looks very well made, and it looks preachy as hell. Hidden Figures follows three black women working for NASA in the 1960's, during a period of high tension with Russia over the space race, and…
Ender's Game Gavin Hood (2013) I missed Ender's Game when it came out in 2013, and saw it was pretty much panned by critics and ignored by audiences. Yet again, I find myself completely out of phase with the general opinion. Fifty years after a foiled invasion of Earth by an insectoid alien race known…
Ad Astra James Gray (2019) Reading this blog it would become evident that I have a thing for movies involving space and/or science fiction. This one joins the long line of movies that I stupidly didn't see on a big screen. How wrong I was... As a series of power surges are threatening life in…
First Man Damien Chazelle (2018) I was enchanted by La La Land, Ryan Gosling is one of my favorite actors, space travel is an existential obsessions of mine. So naturally I was very optimistic. Was I right? First man focuses on a few years of the life of astronaut Neil Armstrong, leading up to him…
