This week on End Credits, we’re got hope and pessimism. The former comes from a new movie in theatres everywhere about a literal one-man quest to save the world, but with some alien help in the new sci-fi adventure Project Hail Mary. As for the latter, we head half-a-century into the past for the start of a new series about a big movie year and some of the most consequential releases.
This Wednesday, March 25, at 3 pm, Adam A. Donaldson and Tim Phillips will discuss:
6 For ’76 Part 1: Taxi Driver. On this episode, we’re kick off a new project. It’s been 50 years since 1976, an important year for movies in an important decade for movies, and over the next several months we’re going to consider six movies from 1976 starting with Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver. The tale of a malcontent wallowing in the malaise and moral decay of 1970s New York has been many things to many people, but what does it mean in 2026?
REVIEW: Project Hail Mary (2026). Based on another book by the author of The Martian, Project Hail Mary arrives at an opportune time. It’s about humanity’s best and brightest working to solve a world ending calamity, it’s about putting hope in science and technology to help us find the answers, and it’s about Ryan Gosling as a middle school teacher plus a rocky-looking alien creature on who our survival depends. Project Hail Mary has become the first big hit of 2026, but can it’s hope-ium sustain a cynical movie audience going into the Easter long weekend?
End Credits is on CFRU 93.3 fm and cfru.ca Wednesday at 3 pm.
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