Project Hail Mary (2026) (sort of a movie review)

For reasons, I was not planning on posting a review of this movie. 1 Alas, this blog has been dead air for over a week, and so I’m moved to post something, and so here we are. Caveat: I have not read the book the movie is based on, nor will I; proceed at your own risks, as there will be spoilers in the review. ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ While The Martian (the book) sits in ye old TBR Cordillera of Doom still, 2 I was not even aware that Project Hail Mary existed until I saw the first trailer on YouTube, at some point in early summer 2025; I should also note that while I haven’t always been a fan of Ryan Gosling, there’s enough here that I was intrigued: You can read the full plot of the movie on Wikipedia, here, but here’s my short and dirty summary: “Project Hail Mary” tells the story of Earth under immediate existential threat: something is literally killing the Sun, which is changing the planet’s climate at an accelerated pace. If nothing changes, life on the planet will be impossible in a…

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