U.S. Space Command believes catastrophic power surges are being sent to Earth by Tommy Lee Jones, who led a deep space mission that has gone silent for more than a decade, and Brad Pitt is his son, an unflappable astronaut who is asked to travel to the moon and then to Mars to try and establish communication with his long-absent father in director James Gray’s AD ASTRA.

Also, Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff discuss some of this decade’s defining movie-related moments.

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AD ASTRA clip courtesy 20th Century Fox

Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner

Recorded October 10, 2019.