On iPlayer: Operation Avalanche
Operation Avalanche is the second feature from Matt Johnson, the maverick filmmaker behind Nirvanna the Band the Show. Anyone familiar with that brilliant series will be unsurprised to learn that […]
Tag Archives: 2001: A Space Odyssey
2010: The Year We Make Contact
Q: Who would be crazy enough to make a sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey? A: The man who made Timecop. Peter Hyams (End of Days) brings back all our […]
Shaun the Sheep: Farmageddon
There are certain characters you wouldn’t dream of sending into space (Sister Mary Clarence, James Bond) and others for whom it makes a strange kind of sense. It worked for […]
2001: A Space Odyssey
In possibly the most ambitious film ever made, Stanley Kubrick seeks to show no less than the entire history of humanity, from the first humans to our potential exploration of […]
Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition
This exhibition at the Design Museum in London brings together a huge array of props, scripts, equipment, photos and letters from the career of one of the greatest directors of […]
Solaris
In the immortal words of Boney M: “Oh, those Russians…” One can’t help but agree with the sentiment when watching Solaris, a three-hour Soviet sci-fi slog. Kris Kelvin (Donatas Banionis) […]
Interstellar
Cooper (Matthew McCounaughey) and his daughter Murphy (Mackenzie Foy then Jessica Chastain) live in a dystopian future where proper first names have gone extinct. Also extinct are most crops, forcing […]
Love
In answer to your question Haddaway, Love is a film about a man stranded in space. It opens during the US Civil War when a strange object is discovered, then […]
Gravity
Three astronauts are doing a space walk on the exterior of a satellite orbiting the earth, but when a debris storm damages their craft they are sent adrift in space. […]
Blog: The Gravity of the Situation
Gravity has fascinated the human mind since an apple first landed on Newton’s bewigged head. But with an absence of gravity being one of space’s biggest selling points, surprisingly few science fiction […]
