The resulting adventure explores the human spirit of exploration, the desperation of near extinction of the human race, and some fascinating ideas about the human Singularity and space time. There's betrayal, a few surprises, lots of adventure and some incredibly epic space scenes, reminiscent and surpassing Stanley Kubrik's 2001. There are a few nods to the classics scattered around the film too, like the fact that the sentient robots in the film are essentially mobile monoliths.

It's worth seeing on the IMAX screen alone as having been filmed specifically with that tech in mind, the visuals fill the place from floor to ceiling and wall to wall with no cropping, and it looks amazing.

Unfortunately the film falls down in its story and character development. There are great ideas and great actors, but loosely strung together with unresolved or nonsensical and unnecessary plot elements just to tie things together. It's also incredibly long - so long in fact that the IMAX seats become decidedly uncomfortable.

All in all it's an enjoyable film to watch though surprisingly for science fiction the required suspension of disbelief is required more for the characters than the story. The space scenes are genuinely epic and Interstellar explores some really interesting ideas - but be prepared for a seriously long haul, emphasised at times by some pretty poor quality dialogue.

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Just the facts: Title: Interstellar (2014) Written by: Christopher Nolan & Jonathan Nolan Directed by: Christopher Nolan Running time: 169 mins Rating: The Players: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Wes Bentley, Michael Caine, Ellen Burstyn, John Lithgow, William Devane, Matt Damon Official website: interstellar.withgoogle.com IMDb entry For session times of current films, use the cinema listings on the Movie links page. For scheduled release dates, see the coming attractions section. For more information about this movie, check out the internet movie database. For the latest additions to Festivale, check out the change history section.

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