Top 10 Movies to Celebrate the Moon Landing 

APOLLO 13

THE DISH

THE DISH was the largest grossing movie in Australia last year. The story is about the Australian crew of one of the two satellite dishes tracking Apollo 11, the first manned flight to land on the moon. Leading the crew is a…

OCTOBER SKY

HIDDEN FIGURES

HIDDEN FIGURES is an engaging, uplifting salute to three African-American women who contribute to the NASA program during the 1960s Space Race with Russia. The story centers on Katherine Johnson. A brilliant mathematician, Katherine proves herself a critical addition to the Space…

WALL-E

WALL*E is the latest animated feature from Pixar and Walt Disney Pictures. In the future, human beings left earth because there was too much trash. In their haste, they forgot to turn off WALL*E, Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class. So, for 700…

AD ASTRA

AD ASTRA is a space adventure set in the future. Astronaut Roy McBride is assigned to a special mission after strange power surges threaten Earth. The government believes the power surges come from a mission near Neptune, spearheaded by Roy’s father 30 years ago. They send Roy to Mars to transmit a message, hoping his father will…

GRAVITY

GRAVITY is an amazing piece of brilliant filmmaking, with another outstanding performance by Sandra Bullock of THE BLIND SIDE. In the story, two astronauts are adding some equipment to the Hubble Telescope. They get stranded when a sudden debris field destroys their…

STAR WARS

Twenty years after its initial release in 1977, STAR WARS hits the silver screen again with a major face lift. George Lucas has given STAR WARS digital sound, some added creatures created with computer animation and even a whole new scene involving…

THE MARTIAN

Directed by Ridley Scott, THE MARTIAN stars Matt Damon as Astronaut Mark Watney, botanist for one of several planned American missions to Mars. A massive sandstorm swamps the Martian base. As the storm begins to strike, the female captain decides it’s time…

THE CROWN: Moondust

“Moondust” is Episode Seven of the third season of THE CROWN. The episode follows Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth’s husband, as he marvels at the American astronauts who land and walk on the moon in July 1969. An adventurer, Philip struggles with aging,…