• September 20, 2019
• At Home, Drama, Science Fiction

There is an outstanding opening sequence that has astronaut/space-antenna worker Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) tumbling ass-over-teakettle from tens of thousands of feet above the earth as the antenna explodes...

• September 20, 2019
• At Home, Drama, Science Fiction

Brad Pitt and his perpetually twitchy emotional-barometer lower lip (wanna know how he’s feeling or thinking? just watch the lip!) star as even-keeled Roy McBride, an astronaut whose most...

• May 20, 2019
• At Home, Drama, Science Fiction

The thrilling and teeth-rattling opening sequence of First Man shows a test pilot in 1961 as he flies up to 140,000 feet, then almost doesn’t make it back. No,...

• March 25, 2017
• At Home, Science Fiction

Anyone who’s ever seen one of those movies – or, for that matter, anyone who’s ever tried to kill a big spider, only to miss and have it seemingly...

• January 6, 2017
• At Home, Comedy, Drama

Set in the early 1960s, the film follows a trio of black women working in NASA’s computing division. Or, more accurately, as NASA computing division (back before machines did...

• September 16, 2016
• At Home, Drama, Science Fiction

Director/screenwriter Matt Johnson stars in Operation Avalanche as a variation of himself… if he were a guy named Matt Johnson, who was also a filmmaker, who happened to work...

• February 24, 2014
• At Home, Science Fiction, Thriller

Gravity is basically a 90-minute thrill-ride. The audience lives vicariously through astronaut Sandra Bullock’s point of view as, almost immediately, a space walk goes very very wrong. The Space...

• October 31, 2013
• Action, At Home, Science Fiction

I want to start this review with that famous trailer voice-over, “In a world where…” Ender’s Game is one of those films that presents a perhaps not-so-far-off future, in...

• May 20, 2013
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Science Fiction

We start this journey at the apex of an already-in-progress mission where Spock (Zachary Quinto) cites the Prime Directive a few times in the first couple minutes. Once again...

• April 29, 2009
• At Home, Documentary

America’s Hangar serves as an introduction—really a very surface introduction—to the most popular branch of the United States’ most popular museum: Smithsonian’s National Air & Space Museum. Clocking in...

• October 16, 2007
• At Home, Documentary

Back in 1969 when the first moon landing happened, I did watch it. I was just over a year old, but I proudly like to say that I was...

• July 22, 2007
• Adventure, At Home, Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller

Everyone knows that solar rays can be damaging, but the extent of the damage varies according to proximity, as the crew of Icarus II begins to realize during a...