Back in 2018, word leaked that Richard Linklater, celebrated Texas filmmaker behind Before Midnight, Boyhood, and Dazed and Confused, would be tackling a movie based around the moon landing. Last year he told me that while it didn’t get off the “launch pad,” he was going to “take another run at it.” And apparently, that run was successful, because today Netflix announced that Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Adventure would be coming to the streaming platform. [caption id="attachment_911947" align="alignright" width="360"] Image via Netflix[/caption] Described as combining live-action with hand-drawn and CGI animation, the …

A timely tie-in for the upcoming space movie.

20th Century Fox has released a new featurette for Ad Astra that ties the drama of director James Gray's outer-space epic to the Apollo 11 moon landing, which took place 50 years ago today. Brad Pitt stars in Ad Astra as an astronaut who journeys to the very edge of the solar system to find his missing father (Tommy Lee Jones). Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin starred in the Apollo 11 mission as the actual mad lads who walked on the moon for the first time. Speaking in the video—which also features footage from the film—Gray …

Explaining the decades-old conspiracy theory which says director Stanley Kubrick helped fake the 1969 moon landing for the U.S. government.

The 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing includes new livestream footage from 1969.