Back in October (which, in a COVID-19 timeline, may as well be last century) a smallish film called “Lucy in the Sky,” starring Natalie Portman as a post-mission astronaut struggling to accept the ...

THE year before Apollo 11’s successful mission to the moon, Robert Altman directed James Caan and Robert Duvall in Countdown. The 1968 film stuck to the technology of its day, pumping up the drama ...

"Ten, nine, eight, seven." A child is riding on her mother's back from the bathroom down the dark corridor. "Six, five, four." They round the bedroom door. "Three, two, one, ignition and liftoff." The ...

Rollo Tomasi is a Connecticut-based film critic, TV show critic, news, and editorial writer. He will have a MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2025. Rollo has written over 700 film, ...

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An unusually human Eva Green gives the performance of her career in Alice Winocour's earthbound but otherwise soaring astronaut drama. Back in October (which, in a COVID-19 timeline, may as well be ...

It’s tempting to characterise writer-director Alice Winocour’s third feature as a feminine Ad Astra. In common with that existential adventure, it can be difficult to determine where the allegory ends ...

Proxima‘s plot synopsis: “Sarah (Eva Green) is a French astronaut training at the European Space Agency in Cologne. She is the only woman in the arduous program. She lives alone with Stella, her seven ...

Watch a clip from the movie "Proxima" starring Eva Green, and Matt Dillon. Photo: Vertical Entertainment The Space Age has produced a number of female astronauts with young, even infant, daughters or ...