Moon

Vast and vacuous; that was the void Duncan Jones discovered when he set out to make his directorial debut, Moon, starring Sam Rockwell. The movie pays homage to the films writer-director Jones and Rockwell watched and loved as children of the 1970s.

“Outland, Silent Running, Alien; these were films I remembered growing up and Sam remembers and we were talking about when we had a meeting about three years ago” Jones, scruffy and excitable, recalls.

Duncan Jones directorial debut, Moon, is, like its namesake, mesmerizing, stunning, haunting, illuminating and mysterious. A throwback to 70s-style science fiction films like Outland with a dash of 2001, star Sam Rockwell turns in a virtuoso performance which moves from brash, aggressive space cowboy to a slowly disintegrating permutation of Dustin Hoffman’s Ratzo Rizzo in Midnight Cowboy.

Sarah Larson, George Clooney’s current girlfriend and, some say, soon to be fiancé, has opened up about her relationship with George to the Las Vegas Review Journal. Klassy! We’re sure George looooved that.
Larson describes how they met and began their romance: