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.
2010sMay 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.
2000sMay 19, 2026
Andrew Stanton's 2008 Pixar masterpiece. Garbage robot finds love on dead Earth.
1970sMay 18, 2026
1979 Lewis Gilbert Bond film with Moore in space. Drax's orbital station, space-shuttle laser battle, post-Star Wars opportunism.
1980sMay 16, 2026
Seen four times, dated but good for its time. Visuals are still strange in ways no modern adaptation has matche.
1960sMay 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…
1990sMay 16, 2026
David Howard and Robert Gordon. David Howard and Robert Gordon wrote.
2010sMay 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.
2020sMay 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.
1980sMay 16, 2026
Sowards wrote the original screenplay, with substantial uncredited revisions by Meyer. The film made approximately ninety-seven million dollars worldwide on an eleven million dollar budget.
2000sMay 16, 2026
Michelle Yeoh plays Corazon. The film made approximately thirty-two million dollars worldwide on a forty million dollar budget.
2000sMay 16, 2026
Serenity is the rare feature film made to give a canceled television series a proper conclusion. Joss Whedon wrote and directed.
1970sMay 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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