"Jury Duty" season 2, Death Cab for Cutie's new single, and "Ulster American" round out our picks for the weekend of March 20.

Project Hail Mary mashes up goofy antics with high-stakes space drama.

Based on the novel of the same name written by Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary is a fun, engaging sci-fi thriller that makes you ...

Sci-fi stories ask “what if,” and they answer “then what.” Whether the film is an exciting blockbuster, a tiny and ambitious indie enigma, a terrifying horror story or a depressing work of severe ...

Based on Andy Weir's science-heavy, dubiously-technical novel of the same name, their film "Project Hail Mary" transports viewers somewhere better than the outreaches of the universe: 2.5 hours in the ...

Bud Cort's lone directing effort 'Ted & Venus,' 50th anniversary of 'Network' in 35mm, Duvall and De Niro in 'True Confessions,' and the world premiere restoration of Greg Harrison's 'Groove.' ...

Programmer-turned-novelist Andy Weir has now cranked out two bestselling sci-fi novels that Hollywood could not resist.

Ryan Gosling stars as Ryland Grace in PROJECT HAIL MARY, from Amazon MGM Studios. Photo credit: Jonathan Olley. © 2026 Amazon ...

We took a look at how close our real world is to some of the most remarkable parts of Ryan Gosling’s sci-fi blockbuster. The ...

Like the lead character of “Project Hail Mary,” some scientists are proposing ways that life might exist beyond a star’s “habitable zone,” often considered the gold standard of potential livability ...

Perhaps the reason Project Hail Mary hits the spot in the spring of 2026 is that novelist Andy Weir, who wrote the 2021 novel ...

The existentially lonely astronaut is by now a science-fiction archetype; in fact, this movie’s star, Ryan Gosling, has already played one in Damien Chazelle’s 2018 Neil Armstrong biopic First Man. So ...