Project Hail Mary (2026)
Everything is figure-outable. And in times like these days where the world is on fire and minute-to-minute news feels like we're past the brink of losing it all, it's refreshing to watch a film jettisoning us to space in the hope of saving humanity and holding into our future. Its star and my forever bae Ryan Gosling spent six years bringing the mammoth novel by Andy Weir to life, and a lot of that love shines on screen from the incredible production design and score, to the essential element of the film - his character's friendship with an alien Rocky, whose own planet is also being slowly eaten away by alien bacteria called Astrophage. I wish there was something more worth mentioning here about the astrophage, but contrary to the 500+page novel where every problem to be solved introduces another (and the problems are just biology, astrophysics, relativity, to say the least), the movie deals with the conflict of what Ryland and Rocky are working against a little too sub...