The Right Stuff (1983), Philip Kaufman’s adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s acclaimed portrait of the original NASA astronauts, is *the* American epic of the last great frontier and a genuinely romantic take on the first generation of space cowboys. In fact, we know that Kaufman’s heart lays with test pilot cowboy Chuck Yeager, played by Sam […]
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‘Colony: Season 1’ – The resistance begins on Netflix
Colony: Season 1 (2016) – The time: the near future. The place: Los Angeles. Under occupation of unseen alien invaders. Set less than a year after the Earth was invaded and conquered by an alien race, the USA Network series Colony is set in a city cut off from the rest of the world by a […]