ACTOR
Sam Rockwell’s character Sam Bell is an astro laborer stuck on the moon manning a mining station, whose contract is just about up, and all in good time. Sam has no one to talk to aside from a laconic robot with a pasted on smiley (or frowny, depending on what’s going on) face and is getting bored with his model kit hobby. He’s excited and ready to head back home to his loving family, eat some real (Earth) food that doesn’t come in packets or tubes, get his feet on the ground, do real, Earth things, stuff like that. But mostly he’ll be happy just to see his family again. With Moon, Sam Rockwell sheds the poor copy of Edward Norton ghost of Fight Club coat and becomes his own man.

FILM
A welcome change from all the crap that Hollywood’s offering recently. Moon doesn’t have huge explosions every three minutes, big buff skintight leather superhero overalls, mutant powers or vampire werewolf teenager crush triangles. It’s not a popcorn and nachos blockbuster. What it is: A thought-provoking you’ll need to stay in your seat throughout the entire thing pace, don’t fall asleep, where’s my copy of that Russian space movie when you need to compare things …feeling. Go see it with your film class elitist jerk cinema nerd (pals), tell me what they think.