The actors play daughter and father in Jess Varley's solo directorial debut about a woman experiencing strange sensations ...

Narrative Spotlight Director: Jess Varley Logline: After returning from her first space mission, astronaut Sam Walker is placed under NASA's care at a high security house for rehabilitation and ...

The Astronaut, starring Kate Mara, suffers from a catastrophic final act that torpedoes an otherwise serviceable sci-fi thriller.

Think Close Encounters of the Third Kind meets Arrival meets E.T. The Extra Terrestrial meets The Martian meets Gravity and you pretty much have the cinematic inspirations for the latest outer ...

SXSW: Though it channels Steven Spielberg movies like "E.T.," the movie ends up feeling more like "Mac and Me." Kate Mara stars as Sam Walker, an astronaut returning home from her very first ...

Kate Mara is stalked by creepy aliens while in lockdown at a remote safe house in The Astronaut, a new sci-fi thriller from writer-director Jess Varley. PEOPLE has an exclusive first look at the ...

Kate Mara will be everywhere at this year’s South by Southwest. After the world premiere of “The Astronaut” last on Friday, the world premiere of “The Dutchman” on Saturday and the U.S ...

Director Jess Varley’s directorial debut at SXSW, “The Astronaut,” is a disappointing recreation of better films with an odd ...

Kate Mara knows a little bit about being in space. As one of the stars of Ridley Scott‘s 2015 hit, The Martian, Mara continues to carry parts of that experience with her, including the costuming.

Kate Mara's new movie The Astronaut has one very special fan. In an interview ahead of the sci-fi thriller's SXSW Film & TV Festival premiere, the actress, 42, told PEOPLE she watched the movie ...

Jess Varley’s solo feature debut, The Astronaut, opens with a propulsive sequence. In an overhead shot of the ocean, a handful of rescue boats race toward a container ship bobbing steadily with ...

Kate Mara, who was actually earthbound in The Martian, this time gets the Matt Damon role of an astronaut, Sam Walker, returning to Earth after a very long time in isolation in outer space.