While Project Hail Mary is a thoroughly enjoyable space-set adventure yarn, what makes it special is its unbridled optimism for humanity and science.  This feel-good movie unironically believes that when the chips are down, we’ll rise to the occasion.  I sincerely hope that’s true.  Highly recommended. Continue reading Project Hail Mary

A great movie doesn’t need a great premise, but it definitely helps.  Such is the case with Bugonia, a science-fiction film that suggests that the CEO of a pharmaceutical company is actually an alien from another world.  I’ve often wondered if CEOs were human.  The way they express themselves with a steady stream of corporate jargon and self-actualization platitudes, delivered with zero passion but loads of certainty and conviction, has always given me pause.  Maybe, as this movie implies, they’re aliens from another world who’ve come to Earth with malicious intent.  Excuse me while I grab my tin foil hat.