October 2017
The sci-fi noir world of Blade Runner
... the future would later become an inspiration for countless films, including the obvious Dark City, Matrix and Minority ...this wake-up call. The imagery and feel of the original film is maintained in the sequel three decades later. Humanoid slave ...
January 2019
Space for Art – Love letter to Earth
...of the image using the Apollo 8 astronauts themselves together with film and television clips from during and after the mission. The ...by the image and the story behind it and he sees his film as a love letter to the Earth. “What touched the astronauts...
04 October 2021
Russian film crew to head to the ISS, 5 October
..., veteran Roscosmos cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, a former Commander of the ISS, will join actress Yulia Peresild and film director Klim Shipenko for the launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:55 am EDT (1:55 pm Baikonur time). Their...
06 October 2021
Russian crew arrives at ISS to film first movie in orbit
...NASA and Elon Musk's SpaceX. Actress Yulia Peresild, 37, and film director Klim Shipenko, 38, took off from the Russia-leased Baikonur ... ISS. The crew travelled in a Soyuz MS-19 spaceship to film scenes for "The Challenge". The movie's plot, which has...
September 2017
Science searches for cosmic company
... when the development of modern rocketry encouraged the idea that we might eventually send humans to other worlds. Films and television were quick to depict a universe stuffed with clever and sophisticated, although frequently unattractive, creatures...
October 2021
Space in the movies – lessons for spacefarers
... of some modern-day catastrophists. By the same token, Avatar (2009), which is one of the world’s highest grossing films (at around US$3 billion), depicts a very plausible scenario whereby humans snatch resources from another inhabited planet. Where...
