Tag: GeekWire at the Movies
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Not so far, far away: How the Star Wars galaxy falls short of the real-life search for planets
Luke Skywalker’s home planet, Tatooine, and its two suns are a good example of science echoing Star Wars. Or is it the other way around? (Lucasfilm Photo) Over the past 42 years, filmgoers have seen exotic worlds come to life in a succession of Star Wars movies — a series that is now coming to…
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Brad Pitt coaxes a thumbs-up for his ‘Ad Astra’ movie in hookup with space station
Brad Pitt, the star of the space movie “Ad Astra,” chats with NASA astronaut Nick Hague over a video hookup to the International Space Station. (NASA via YouTube) Imagine the taglines in the movie ads: “Really good” portrayal of zero-gravity! “Absolutely” better than George Clooney! There’d be some justification for Brad Pitt’s space movie, “Ad…
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Voyager at 40: ‘The Search for Life in Space’ puts big question on the big screen
“The Search for Life In Space” touches on several frontiers in astrobiology. (MacGillivray Freeman) What better way to celebrate 40 years of NASA’s interplanetary Voyager mission than with an eye-filling movie that brings the decades-old story up to date? “The Search for Life in Space,” an IMAX 3-D documentary that opens at the Pacific Science…
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GeekWire at the Movies: ‘Alien: Covenant’ delivers the gory goods, and some answers
“Alien: Covenant” expands the film franchise’s monster menagerie. (Twentieth Century Fox) Spoiler Alert: This item avoids discussing major plot twists in “Alien: Covenant,” but wait until after you see the movie to read it if you want to stay totally in the dark. We’ve seen enough “Alien” movies by now that we pretty much know…
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‘Life’ horror movie sparks reality check on procedures for studying Mars samples
Rebecca Ferguson plays Miranda North, a planetary protection officer aboard the International Space Station, in the movie “Life.” (Sony Pictures Digital Productions) Spoiler Alert! This article doesn’t reveal any major plot twists, but wait to read it if you’re trying to stay totally in the dark about the plot of the movie “Life.” Let sleeping…
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Horror movie ‘Life’ draws upon real-life biology and worst-case space scenarios
An astronaut administers a shock to an alien life form in a Petri dish aboard the International Space Station, in a scene from the movie “Life.” Bad idea? (CTMG via YouTube) A real-life organism provides the inspiration for the alien monster at the center of “Life,” a horror movie that’s set on the International Space Station.…
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GeekWire at the Movies: ‘Voyage of Time’ lays out a visual book of scientific genesis
“Voyage of Time” makes use of cosmic imagery like this view of Europa with Jupiter’s Great Red Spot as a backdrop. (Credit: Broad Green Pictures) Is it possible to create a visual gospel, to be seen on a movie screen rather than read from a parchment? If so, that’s what filmmaker Terrence Malick has created…