Oscar-winners Sandra Bullock and George Clooney are up shit creek without a paddle in Alfonso Cuaron’s nerve-shredding and essentially, groundbreaking space-set sci-fi thriller GRAVITY. The CHILDREN OF MEN director’s ‘experimental’ film features the superstar duo (and the only acting talent in the entire pic) as two astronauts carrying out a routine mission which goes disastrously wrong. They must fight for their lives as an explosion leaves them slowing drifting out into the bleak emptiness of the outer atmosphere.
Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky (George Clooney) in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone–tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth…and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left. But the only way home may be to go further out into the terrifying expanse of space.
We have another television spot and first featurette from the film released in 3D in US theatres on the 4th October and UK 8th November.
Craig was our great north east correspondent, proving that it’s so ‘grim up north’ that losing yourself in a world of film is a foregone prerequisite. He has been studying the best (and often worst) of both classic and modern cinema at the University of Life for as long as he can remember. Craig’s favorite films include THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, JFK, GOODFELLAS, SCARFACE, and most of John Carpenter’s early work, particularly THE THING and HALLOWEEN.
