
Moon
Director: Duncan Jones (David Bowie's son!)
Release Date: June 12
Starring: Sam Rockwell, Kaya Scodelario, Benedict Wong, Matt Berry, Malcolm Stewart, Dominique McElligott
Rated: R
In the near future, astronaut Sam Bell (Rockwell) is living on the far side of the moon, completing a three-year contract with Lunar Industries to mine Earth’s primary source of energy, Helium-3. The near-crippling isolation is made that much harder by a broken satellite that allows no live communications to be sent to or from home. Taped messages are all Sam can send and receive - and there's a reason.
Thinking that his time on the moon is nearly over, at which point he'll rejoin his family and live happily ever after, he begins preparations to return home. But suddenly Sam’s health starts to deteriorate, leading to a near-fatal accident on a routine moon drive in a lunar rover. While recuperating back at the base (with no memory of how he got there), Sam meets a healthier, cockier version of himself, who claims to be there to fulfill the same three year contract Sam started all those years ago.
Confined with what appears to be a clone of his earlier self, and with a “support crew” on its way to help put the base back into productive order, Sam is fighting the clock to discover what’s going on and where he fits into company plans.
CraveOnline's Call: Chaos theory in full effect here, ladies and gentlemen. I had the opportunity to catch a screening of this last month, and I can assure you - this one's a winner.