Project Hail Mary Review — Ryan Gosling's Best Sci-Fi Yet?
About this episode
Dan and Mike review the film Project Hail Mary, discussing its ambitious narrative and Ryan Gosling's performance.
Message Dan and Mike Four months ago we did a first look on Project Hail Mary and walked away genuinely excited. Now that we've seen it — Dan nearly three times, Mike once — we're ready to give it a full review. Ryan Gosling plays Ryland Grace, a molecular biologist moonlighting as a middle school teacher who wakes up alone in deep space, no memory intact, on what amounts to a suicide mission to save Earth from extinction. The film is dense and ambitious, and once it finds its footing — rough...
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Hosts: Dan Smith, Mike Smith
Topics covered
- film review
- sci-fi
- Ryan Gosling
- Project Hail Mary
- space exploration
Keywords
- Project Hail Mary
- Ryan Gosling
- sci-fi film
- film review
- space mission
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Books & works: Project Hail Mary
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