Ad Astra, the epic sci-fi drama starring Brad Pitt as an astronaut searching the edge of the solar system for his missing father, faced an unusual amount of criticism for its many scientific inaccuracies. However, as director James Gray recently explained in an Instagram live interview with his Ad Astra producer Rodrigo Teixeira, realism was never the film’s goal. If you’ve not seen the film, I won’t spoil it for you, except to say that the movie is very internal and almost dream-like. There’s action scenes and sequences of extreme space peril, but it’…
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Ad Astra, the existential sci-fi drama from director James Gray, stars Brad Pitt as astronaut Roy McBride, tasked with locating his missing father, Commander H. Clifford McBride (Tommy Lee Jones). Clifford disappeared on a mission to the edge of the solar system to search for intelligent alien life 16 years earlier, and surges from his supposedly abandoned space station are threatening human life on Earth with no less than total annihilation. So, no pressure, Roy. [caption id="attachment_777244" align="alignright" width="350"] Image via 20th Century Fox[/caption] Despite the urgency of the premise, the film itself is slow-…
20th Century Fox has announced the 4K and Blu-ray details for Ad Astra. The Brad Pitt sci-fi film will arrive on digital on December 3rd and on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD on December 17th. The film follows astronaut Roy McBride (Pitt) who is sent on a mission to Mars to try and contact his astronaut father (Tommy Lee Jones) who disappeared decades ago in an attempt to contact intelligent life outside of our solar system. The Blu-ray and 4K will contain two deleted scenes with optional audio commentary from director James Gray. Interestingly, one …
Here are 5 things Ad Astra does better than Interstellar, and 5 things it missed the mark on.
The future shown in Ad Astra is pretty grounded to reality, so here are 10 plausible ways the movie predicts the evolution of space travel
This week on The Collider.com Podcast, we're talking about Ad Astra. In our spoiler-free discussion, we talk about how the film differs from what was marketed, why it works so well, the themes, James Gray's direction, the increasing rarity of this kind of movie, and Brad Pitt's performance. We then segue to a discussion of Pitt's acting and producing career and how he's changed over the years. We then finish up with Reader Hot Takes. Click on the respective link to find us on iTunes. ALSO, we've moved to a new channel: …
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From Silent Running to Sunshine, there's plenty of space to stream! (I want to say these movies are "out of this world" but in space no one can hear you groan from bad puns.)
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Brad Pitt and Sylvester Stallone get served as Downton Abbey rules the weekend.
Focus Features is having a heck of a time with Downton Abbey being a veritable cash cow at the box office during its opening weekend. The movie, a continuation of the story laid out in the popular TV series of the same name created and written by Julian Fellowes, earned $31 million domestically in its opening weekend. As was the case on Friday, the international receipts for Downton Abbey were almost neck-and-neck with the domestic ones. Overseas, the movie pulled in $30 million, making for a $61.8 million global gross. This is pretty major for a movie …
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