He covers his eyes as the planet explodes, and the screen goes white. A man is being followed by a woman on a flying motorcycle; hes in a Chinese restaurant, where hes meeting an Asian man, Ahab (Ron Yuan) who says that if he can bring in Tien Lung, he will be paid five seasons worth of hauls. The Asian man hes talking to suddenly says Why are you setting us up? Ellen Burstyn, who embodies the oldest version of Coop's daughter, Murph, is the first talking head we see onscreen in Interstellar. Story wise its so-so but its definitely a popcorn free-time watch if you are into sci-fi, space action flicks. When being written into the Book of Life or the Book of Death in the Hebrew Bible, God used a pen known as the Inkhorn that only the holy being and his six heavenly envoys could helm. There are numerous references to Herman Melville's epic 19th century novel, Moby Dick: the obsessive and vengeful pursuit of an enormous creature, many nautical themes, harpooners, reference to "ambergris" (the sought after substance in sperm whales), a character named Ahab (Ron Yuan), a silver sculpture of a whale (although it appears to be a blue whale rather than a sperm whale), a character named Stubniski (Dave Sheridan) known as "Stubs" (paralleling the character Stubbs in Moby Dick), pirates called "Boomers" (there is a character named Captain Boomer in Moby Dick), the main ship's name is the Essex (the same name as the historical ship upon which the Pequod from Moby Dick is based), Hawthorne's (Mike Genovese) last line ("With my last breath") parallels Captain Ahab's last line ("I spit my last breath at thee"), etc. Amazing Stories is a Registered Trademark of Steve Davidson and the Experimenter Publishing Company, LLC., Website and Amazing Stories, LLC are trademarked, Hugo Nominations Are Finally Open Locus Online, NORMAN SPINRAD AT LARGE & COMMONS The Brown Revolution, New Releases in Science Fiction/Fantasy/Paranormal Romance for FEB 22, Your Reviewer, Some Modern Urban Fantasy and Some Thoughts on Publishing and Stuff, Anime roundup 4/11/2019: The Futures So Bright, Poor Execution Leads Elysium to its Death. [2][3][4], The Hollywood Reporter gave the film a negative review, calling it "Good-looking but dimwitted sci-fi."[5]. Learn how your comment data is processed. It keeps your attention until the very end, has decent effects, the characters are a bit predictable, other than the more famous actors who actually did a good job. As Batman: Beyond the White Knight ends, an explosive war occurs against Blight, setting up an epic battle against another powerful being. Beyond White Space (2018) is currently available on Tubi. To make matters worse, a vicious band of scavengers intercept the transmission and infiltrate the Essex, leaving them with nothing.