Dark Star

In times of trouble, it has often been a great comfort to me to go outside on a particularly dark night and look up into the sky, to contemplate the vast, incomprehensible infinities that make up our universe, the swirling galaxies and the exploding supernovas, the black…

Joe

in space nobody can hear you complain about how much your job sucks

sydney

Was interesting to see O’Bannon test run his blue-collar workers in space idea for Alien, and Carpenter’s lo-fi mood does amplify the bleakness of its comedy but definitely feels like a student short padded out to feature length.

Josh Lewis

POV: John Carpenter has passed you the blunt

Dante

John Carpenter presents: OFFICE (in) SPACE You can definitely feel early whiffs of both Carpenter and O’Bannon’s later sci-fi works, but you can also feel how much they stretched a short film into a full-length feature. Still a good amount of amateur fun though, with humor…

Matt!

Four comparisons: Two Lane Blacktop. . . in space! A much more compelling astronauts adrift in space movie than Gravity, with dirt cheap sets and effects that appear to be held together with bubble gum. The alien here may not be as scary as the one in Alien, being…

Sean Gilman

The elevator sequence is a good bit of comedy and I liked the ending but I found the rest of this to be pretty laborious.

Northernlion

it’s important that everyone knows that pinback and I are dating, he is my boyfriend and we are very much in love. it’s also important that everyone knows that the ship’s computer and I are dating, she is my girlfriend and we are very much in love.

Emma Stefansky

Obviously I'm not going to say this is better than 2001: A Space Odyssey, because it isn't. Come on. That would be crazy talk. What I will say, however, is: I am more in agreement with this film's worldview. It would be nice to think that colonization of space would lead…

Will Sloan