Director/Producer James Gray said he wanted his film Ad Astra to be “the most realistic depiction of space travel that’s been put in a movie”. Several critics would assert that Gray failed in this mission. On this episode of Perpetual Notion Machine, PNM’ers Aryel Clarke, Kevin Lauterjung, and Matt Blackburn discuss the science and science fiction within this moody 2019 space drama.

For more info on Ad Astra go here.

Read one astrophysicist’s critique of the film by clicking on this link.