Interstellar

Actors:  Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, John Lithgow, Michael Caine

Rating: 9 out of 10, I’m a fairly jaded movie goer so when a film makes me sit up in wonder it’s pretty special.  The movie is set in the near future with the world on the brink of total disaster and becoming unlivable. McConaughey plays an astronaut given the mission to travel to some new worlds to locate a potential new home world for the human race. It’s a long movie but well worth the escape into space. As with all of the Nolan’s work there are levels within levels.  How he makes quantum physics and time distortion interesting is almost as incomprehensible as the theories themselves. Yet he succeeds through the medium of truly outstanding actors and the central plot line of the love between a father and daughter. The last part of the movie is what 2001: a Space Odyssey should have been. Instead of Kubrick’s over the top visual blitzkrieg Nolan takes some even more complex issues and provides enough clues for the audience to make sense of it. I was dazzled, which is kind of cool, because it doesn’t happen all that often any more.

MVP:  McConaughey as Coop lends real depth as a father torn beteween duty and lover of his family