November 15, 2025

REVIEW: Ad Astra might be the best science fiction film of the decade

The cinema of director James Gray is marked by a strong sense of time and place. His films, dramas heavily influenced by Classical Hollywood and Italian cinema have made him an art-house curio over the last decade. In 2016, Gray was entrusted with his biggest budget yet for the jungle adventure, The Lost City of Z, his first film not set in New York. Despite the underwhelming commercial success of … Continued

Young actor helps bring sci-fi epic to new heights

By KATRINA EDLEFSEN Bad books make bad movies and good books make good movies, so a great book should make a great movie. It should come as no surprise then that a great book like Ender’s Game would become just that, a great movie. Based on the 1985 novel of the same name by American author Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game takes place in a future where Earth is attacked … Continued