This action-packed space centred disaster movie from one of the greatest directors of our time, Christopher Nolan, is getting ready to leave the only streaming platform it is currently on this summer.
Starring Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway, the film was a huge success, winning an Oscar for Best Visual Effects and achieving great critical acclaim.
Insterstellar, the sci-fi epic broke on to our screens in 2014, has been hailed by fans as “the best movie of all time”.
It’s is set in a dystopian future and Earth is suffering from terrible famine and strugle. The film follows a group of astronauts who make an expedition through space in search for a new home for mankind, near Saturn.
The film’s synopsis reads: “In Earth’s future, a global crop blight and second dust bowl are slowly rendering the planet uninhabitable. Professor Brand (Caine), a brilliant NASA physicist, is working on plans to save mankind by transporting Earth’s population to a new home via a wormhole. But first, Brand must send former NASA pilot Cooper (McConaughey) and a team of researchers through the wormhole and across the galaxy to find out which of three planets could be mankind’s new home.”
The starry supporting cast includes Jessica Chastain, Michael Caine, Matt Damon, John Lithgow and Mackenzie Foy.
It was the film that set Timothée Chalamet’s career into orbit, he played McConaughey’s onscreen 15-year-old son.
Interstellar takes the top spot on Letterboxd’s official top 250 films with the most fans.
A Letterboxd reviewer wrote: “Easily my favorite movie of all time. Too many things I love about this movie to talk about in depth.”
While a Reddit commentator said: “This is the best movie of all time. No single movie has made me think or feel more than this movie.”
Observer film critic Mark Kermode said: “If it’s spectacle you want, then Interstellar delivers.
“It reaffirms Nolan as cinema’s leading blockbuster auteur, a director who can stamp his singular vision on to every frame of a gargantuan team effort in the manner of Spielberg, Cameron and Kubrick.”
Interstellar is streaming on NOW TV until August.