Category: Apollo 11

Film Review: ‘Good Night Oppy’:  Not Quite the Real Thing

PG | 1h 45min | Documentary, History, Science, Technology | 4 November 2022 (USA) For a movie so deeply steeped and rooted in science and adventure, the new Amazon documentary “Good Night Oppy” (GNO) is in relatively short supply of both. Unlike the sublime, just-the-facts masterpiece “Apollo 11” (2019) or the criminally underrated, bare-bones sci-fi mood piece “Moon” (2009), “GNO” is…


Cinema Film Review: ‘Apollo 11’

NR | 53m | Documentary | 2019   Filmmaker Steven C. Barber has been on a patriotic and inspirational tear over the last decade and a half or so, with standout films such as 2009’s “Unbeaten,” and 2015’s “Return to the Philippines, the Leon Cooper Story.” So, it wasn’t much of a surprise to learn…


Apollo 11 | Documentary

“Apollo 11: We Must Be Bold” is an amazing journey that takes us behind the scenes of the Lundeen Sculptors out of Loveland, Colorado. This band of brothers are some of the greatest American sculptors this country has ever produced and have now become the leaders in building astronaut monuments around the world. A collaboration…


Sunglass Roundup: The Eyes Have It

Smith Shoutout Core. (Courtesy of Smith) Recycled Style Smith Shoutout Core $139 Founded in 1965 by orthodontist and snow skier Bob Smith to provide maximum eye protection, the firm has developed a reputation for providing cutting-edge technology that also looks good. Featuring frames crafted from recycled water bottles, the polarized bio-based lenses provide 100 percent…


Astronaut Michael Collins, Apollo 11 Pilot, Dead of Cancer

Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins, who orbited the moon alone while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made their historic first steps on the lunar surface, died Wednesday. He was 90. Collins died of cancer, his family said in a statement: “Mike always faced the challenges of life with grace and humility, and faced this, his…