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Good Universe is an American film production company founded by Joe Drake and Nathan Kahane. History [ edit ] In Spring 2012, Good Universe was launched as longtime partners Joe Drake and Nathan Kahane transitioned out of Lionsgate , where Drake served as the president of the Lionsgate Motion Picture Group and Kahane as the president of Mandate Pictures . [1]
74 Metascore. When Earth becomes uninhabitable in the future, a farmer and ex-NASA pilot, Joseph Cooper, is tasked to pilot a spacecraft, along with a team of researchers, to find a new planet for humans. Director Christopher Nolan Stars Matthew McConaughey Anne Hathaway Jessica Chastain. 7.
In fact, Damon’s affability scored it an unlikely Best Comedy nod at the Golden Globes. And those laughs are vital in a film detailing a scientist slowly starving himself on a distant planet as ...
- Arrival
- October Sky
- Gravity
- Contact
- Hidden Figures
- First Man
- Interstellar
- The Right Stuff
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- The Martian
When a dozen of the most mysterious monoliths since 2001: A Space Odysseydrop anchor around the globe, linguist Louise Banks (Amy Adams) and physicist Ian Donnelly (Jeremy Renner) are recruited by the military to make contact with the seven-limbed ‘heptapods’ and find out what they want. Nominated for eight Academy Awards including Best Picture and...
To a small town of West Virginia coal miners, Sputnik was either a harbinger of Soviet doom or a pointless science experiment, depending on who you asked. For Homer Hickam Jr. and his friends, the first artificial satellite instilled hope that they could do more with their lives than hold shovels. Between scavenging railroads for rocket parts, laun...
The Kessler Syndrome gets the Hollywood treatment in this low-Earth-orbit thriller starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney as Hubble repair astronauts left stranded in space when a Russian anti-satellite missile test sets off a thrilling but unrealistically swift sequence of orbital debris strikes that cripple the duo’s space shuttle and leaves ...
For decades, astronomers have been scanning the skies for radio signals from other civilizations. What happens when they find something? That’s the tale of Contact, which stars Jodie Foster as Ellie Arroway, a radio astronomer compelled since childhood to look for signals from alien worlds even as others warn that she is throwing away a promising s...
Capturing, as the name suggests, the story of those not seen, this retelling of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughn and Mary Jackson’s work at NASA spotlights their vital contribution as mathematicians to getting John Glenn to space and back in one piece. These three African American women, and many of their colleagues, calculated trajectories and ot...
Ryan Gosling stars as Neil Armstrong in this 2018 biographical drama based on the book “First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong” by James R. Hansen. The film, which won an Academy Award for best visual effects, follows Armstrong from a 1961 test flight of the X-15 spaceplane to the conclusion of the Apollo 11 mission. While focusing on Armstrong’s...
This mind-bending, dystopian thriller from Christopher Nolan (Inception, The Dark Knight) stars Matthew McConaughey as an astronaut turned farmer recruited to find a new home planet for a dwindling population struggling to survive global crop failures and freaky dust storms. Nothing is quite what it seems in this not-too-distant future where humank...
This 1983 historical drama, based on Tom Wolfe’s book of the same name, contrasts the exploits of Chuck Yeager and other test pilots flying rocket-powered planes over the California desert in relative obscurity with the national celebrity of the Project Mercury astronauts. The Right Stuff shows the grueling medical and physical tests the Mercury Se...
An epic, if at times enigmatic, saga that took director Stanley Kubrick years to complete, 2001: A Space Odysseygoes from humanity’s origins in Africa to a “Starchild” at the end. It’s best known, though, for its time in what was then a near future with rotating space stations visited by Pan Am space shuttles, a moon base, and a mission to Jupiter ...
Waking up stranded from everyone you know and forced to plant potatoes in your own feces to survive would be a bad day on Earth, let alone Mars. But that’s what happens to NASA astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon) in The Martianwhen a massive dust storm forces his team of scientists to leave him behind on the Red Planet. Based on Andy Weir’s bestsell...
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- Galaxy Quest. Release date: December 25, 1999. Cast: Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman. In the movie, the cast of Galaxy Quest are questioning the life choices that have led them to still be talking about the dopey TV show they did in the 80s as they do the convention circuit and cut ribbons at store openings.
- Alien. Release date: June 22, 1979. Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Ian Holm, Tom Skeritt. If you ever want to start an argument among Alien fans, ask them if it’s horror or science fiction (it’s both).
- The Martian. Release date: October 2, 2015. Cast: Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kate Mara. It’s difficult to combine a thrilling space story with hard science, but The Martian pulls it off with ease – it even made it onto our 5 most realistic space movies list.
- Apollo 13. Release date: June 30, 1995. Cast: Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon. Astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise were supposed to land on the moon, but catastrophe strikes: one of the tanks holding their craft’s liquid oxygen explodes, sending their module tumbling and destroying much of the capsule’s inner workings.
Mar 25, 2022 · This movie is as passionate and exhaustive a love letter to an actor as I've ever seen, and Yeoh's performance combines action, comedy, drama and emotion in ways she's never done before. Ke Huy ...
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Jan 23, 2023 · 48. Armageddon. Buena Vista Pictures Distribution. It may have been critically panned, but "Armageddon" taps into exactly what makes space movies so entertaining, focusing on a catastrophic ...
