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I didn t watch the Academy Awards broadcast this year; from what I ve read, you likely didn t either. That I say I don t care about the Oscars, seeing them as increasingly culturally insignificant and out of step, and yet feel compelled to constantly mention them in this context is something I wrestle with. In fact, I paid closer attention to the race this year than I have in, well, maybe decades. This could be symptomatic of a year in which we ve welcomed almost any diversion from our suddenly hazardous reality. But the nominees and winners this year, like the recent growth of the Academy itself, suggest something greater to me.
Stowaway review: Sluggish yet thrilling, but this is no Gravity!
One of the biggest shortcomings of the movie is the editing by Ryan Morrison. It could have been way crisper and the runtime could have been shortened by at least 10 minutes
For the unversed, stowaways are people who travel secretly in any form of transportation like buses, trams, trains, aircrafts, etc. Joe Pennaâs Stowaway takes it a notch higher by getting a stowaway passenger in a spaceship travelling to Mars for a two-year mission. I know what youâre thinking â itâs absurd to even think of a situation like this! After all, the numerous security checks that happen before the reverse countdown of a spaceship begins, makes this situation pretty much of an impossibility. They are NASA and not your local Nasha-Mukti Kendra for Peteâs sake!
Kritika Kapoor, TNN, Updated: Apr 27, 2021, 11.06 AM ISTCritic s Rating: 3.0/5
Hollywood has taken many trips to space in the past, exploring the universe s vast expanse, its apathetically ruthless nature towards man, and the isolation and helplessness of the astronauts at its mercy. Sometimes it s through the lens of enigmatic allegory (Stanley Kubrick s magnum opus 2001: Space Odyssey) or breathtaking visuals (Alfonso Cuarón s Gravity), and other times mind-bending scientific theories (Christopher Nolan s Interstellar) or even a little bit of humour (Ridley Scott s The Martian).
Director Joe Penna s expedition to Mars in the 2021 movie Stowaway is neither as ambitious, nor mounted on as grand a scale, as the ones mentioned above. Instead, it unfolds in the rather claustrophobic confines of the Kingfisher, that is en route to a Mars colony. The cast is threadbare, but solid - Anna Kendrick as medical researcher Zoe, Toni Collette as the ship s commander Marina, and Daniel Dae K
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Imagine suddenly waking up disoriented in an unfamiliar place. As you walk through the narrow, round tunnel hallway, you reach the window and look out to see
space – vast, uncharted blackness with millions of stars. Suddenly, you spot the Earth, your home. That s where you re supposed to be and where your family is. Soon you learn that you re now on a two-year mission to Mars, and you re not coming back any earlier than that. That s the situation that Michael (played by
Shamier Anderson) finds himself in at the start of this film. In the Netflix Original
Stowaway, directed by filmmaker