Contrasting the enormity of the achievement with the resulting strain on the astronauts' family lives, this is a film very much about what it took to be an astronaut in the late 1960s, but also what it took to be related to one. Ryan Gosling plays Neil Armstrong in this retelling of the Apollo 11 mission to land on the Moon. Credit: Universal Pictures Director Damien Chazelle Ryan Gosling stars as Neil Armstrong in First Man. Set in a dystopian future and starring Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain, Interstellar follows humanity's attempt to pass through a wormhole in space in search of a new Earth.īetween the hunt for an Earth-like planet beyond our Solar System and the dangers of climate change, Interstellar is a film that tackles some of the biggest issues facing contemporary science.
