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Tag: Space Colonization

Space colonization stories test humanity by exporting it: what survives the trip, and what we cannot help bringing along. This tag collects reviews of films and fiction about settling other worlds.

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Apollo 11 (2019)

May 19, 2026

Newly discovered 65mm footage of 1969 moon landing. Apollo 11 is Todd Douglas Miller's 2019 American documentary depicting the July 1969 Apollo 11 lunar landing mission through previously unreleased seventy-millimeter footage from NASA archives combined with mission audio.

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Moonraker (1979)

May 18, 2026

1979 Lewis Gilbert Bond film with Moore in space. Drax's orbital station, space-shuttle laser battle, post-Star Wars opportunism.

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Dune (1984)

May 16, 2026

Seen four times, dated but good for its time. Visuals are still strange in ways no modern adaptation has matche.

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Barbarella (1968)

May 16, 2026

Barbarella is the late-1960s French-Italian science fiction sex comedy that became a cult artifact more for its visual identity than for its plot. Jane Fonda plays Barbarella, a forty-first-century astronaut sent to recover the scientist Durand-Durand, whose Positronic Ray weapon…

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The Martian (2015)

May 16, 2026

The Martian is the rare mainstream science fiction film that treats its science as the point instead of as decoration. Drew Goddard adapted Andy Weir's 2011 novel.

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Lightyear (2022)

May 16, 2026

Lightyear is the Pixar feature framed as the in-universe movie that made Andy from Toy Story want a Buzz Lightyear action figure. MacLane and Jason Headley wrote.

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Sunshine (2007)

May 16, 2026

Michelle Yeoh plays Corazon. The film made approximately thirty-two million dollars worldwide on a forty million dollar budget.

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Serenity (2005)

May 16, 2026

Serenity is the rare feature film made to give a canceled television series a proper conclusion. Joss Whedon wrote and directed.

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Dark Star (1974) Review

May 15, 2026

Carpenter and O'Bannon were graduate students. The film follows the crew of the deep space scout ship Dark Star during the twenty-second year of their mission.

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