Independent movie night: BLAST! and Moon

Let's go to a movie! I'll be there around 6:45. BLAST! http://blastthemovie.com/about.html 7:00 pm Cinema Village 22 East 12th Street New York, NY 10003 Welcome to Astrophysics Indiana Jones style! Five time Emmy winner Paul Devlin follows the story of his brother, Mark Devlin PhD, as he leads a tenacious team of scientists hoping to figure out how all the galaxies formed by launching a revolutionary new telescope under a NASA high-altitude balloon. Their adventure takes them from Arctic Sweden to Inuit polar bear country in Canada, where catastrophic failure forces the team to try all over again on the desolate ice in Antarctica. No less than the understanding of the evolution and origins of our Universe is at stake on this exciting escapade that seeks to answer humankind's most basic question, How did we get here? BLAST! is about the crazy life of scientists. Their professional obsessions, personal and family sacrifices, and philosophical and religious questioning all give emotional resonance to a spectacular and suspenseful story of space exploration. "This adventuresome spin on breakthrough science should wow 'em!" Variety **** (4 stars) "Inspirational and aspirational!" Tim Teeman, The Times, UK "An adventure tale with twists and turns, lively characters, and some lessons about life, the universe and everything." Doc-a-Day Moon http://www.sonyclassics.com/moon/ 10:30pm AMC Empire 25 234 West 42nd St It is the near future. Astronaut Sam Bell 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. It is a lonely job, made harder by a broken satellite that allows no live communications home. Taped messages are all Sam can send and receive. Thankfully, his time on the moon is nearly over, and Sam will be reunited with his wife, Tess, and their three-year-old daughter, Eve, in only a few short weeks. Finally, he will leave the isolation of “Sarang,” the moon base that has been his home for so long, and he will finally have someone to talk to beyond “Gerty,” the base’s well-intentioned, but rather uncomplicated computer.