Month: May 2020

Originally posted on Fantasy/Sci-Fi FILM & WRITING FESTIVAL:
There is a powerful moment in Michel Faber’s The Book of Strange New Things, when Peter Leigh, transported across light years to minister to a alien congregation on the planet Oasis, delivers a moving eulogy about a man he has hardly known. The scene captures Peter’s…

Originally posted on Fantasy/Sci-Fi FILM & WRITING FESTIVAL:
Vincent Anton (Ethan Hawke), one of few babies made by love instead of science, is ruled out for several occupations at his birth, including the one he dreams of–venturing into space as an astronaut. Gattaca (1997) — ref score