Every time I see this trailer for Moon, directed by David Bowie's son Ducan Jones, I get stupid excited all over again.
How can the son of "Major Tom"--a man raised on two of my favorite authors, J.G. Ballard and Philip K. Dick--go wrong? Especially with Sam Rockwell as his main character? Film opens June 19 in S.F. Looks awesome.
I caught a showing of Moon, the debut sci-fi movie by David Bowie's son, Duncan Jones (also known as Zowie Bowie). The movie references classics like 2001 and Blade Runner, but it slowly twists into a chilling space odyssey that's slower than its inspirations, but leaves no less of an impact (Jones says he was also moved by Robert Zubrin's book Entering Space, about colonizing the solar system). The visually-rich, poetic tale is cautiously claustrophobic, the vastness of being alone among the
​Moon @ the Red Vic (through Wed.)
Moon is one of my favorite films of 2009. Created by David Bowie's son Duncan Jones, the movie riffs off 2001: A Space Odyssey but has its own pop culture sheen and subtle humor. Without saying too much, it's the story of astronaut Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell), whose work on the moon is not what it seems once he discovers a crash outside the safety of his solo space craft. Bell is aided by Gerty, a robot buddy voiced by Kevin Spacey who may or may not be working t
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