Put Ryan Gosling and an alien puppet in a spaceship, and you get sheer joy. That's the best way to sum up Project Hail Mary, a good chunk of whose runtime is a two-hander between biologist Ryland Grace (Gosling) and an alien named Rocky (voiced by James Ortiz).

Back in 2020, news broke that Andy Weir's best-selling novel "Project Hail Mary" was getting the same treatment as his other best-selling novel, "The Martian" — in that it was being made into a huge, ...

The film, which is named after a last-ditch pass sometimes made in American football, centres around Gosling's character Ryland Grace, a science teacher who through a number of extraordinary circumsta...