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The WEIRD Hollywood society launched a Hail Mary movie into the dead zone of its current crisis, turning a popular hard Sci-Fi book into a never-ending collection of comic relief reels totalling 2.5 hours. And it did not exactly stick the landing. It started innocently enough. When I read the interview Perri Thaler, from Science , did with Wendy Freedman, an astronomer at the University of Chicago, I became genuinely interested in the Project Hail Mary movie. The science sounded fascinating — the kind of premise that makes you feel slightly smarter just for knowing about it. I had not been in a movie theater in a while, and when I started spotting the posters at bus stops and some colleagues mentioned they wanted to go, I joined them. What followed was completely unexpected. But before I get to that, let me dwell for a moment on the title — because, as it turns out, it is something of a foreshadowing. The term "Hail Mary" has two primary meanings: it is a traditional ...

Some days ago, I tried to explain the history of Mexican cinema to two friends, one British and one French. It was hard, but from my perspective, ignorant and humble opinion, I came up with an age classification: pre-1968 or the so-called «Golden Age»: This era is characterised by a wide range of topics and experimentation. Thoughtful scripts, but also some movies framed within Mexican nationalism and some others even indoctrination. However, overall they are not so bad and actually, they reflect a Mexico that is way far gone, not only physically but ideologically or culturally. It is called the Golden Age not only because of the quality of the movies but also the amount of movies and genres. Comedy was well represented by famous figures such as Chabelo, Tintan, Cantinflas, Resortes, and even Viruta and Capulina. Drama was well represented with famous figures such as Pedro Infante, Dolores del Río, María Félix, Pedro Armendariz, Emilio Fernández, Sara García, Fernando Soto, María Eugen...