I can't even describe the things that this film made me think and feel. Complex space dramas are my thing, but this one hit in such a different way that anything else has done. I had the same feeling as when I saw Arrival for the first time. I'm in a frenzy, a dizzying kind of frenzy that I get when I see something I know I'm going to hail as a personal classic.
Ad Astra is a near-perfect film and one of the best sci-fi films I've ever seen.
The embrace of my favourite movie of all time is such a special feeling that I can't put into words - although I'm weeping during the final ten minutes, it's cathartic in a way that's indescribably personal, as though the characters are experiencing the emotions for me, as though the world stops for two hours and I get sucked in by the mesmerising photography and, as Elio blinks back tears in the final frame, I know I'm going to be okay.
I can't thank Marvel Studios enough for this film, and everything they've done for me over the past 11 years.
Ever since I watched Tony Stark build the Mark 1 Iron Man suit, I've done a lot of growing and changing, just like the MCU has. I've grown with it, and watched my favourite characters deal with everything that being a superhero entails. Upon the release of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, it dawned on me: not all of these…
