Nuclear physicist, occasional BBC
Horizon presenter, future
destroyer of the earth and probable
Studmuffin Of Science Dr.
Brian Cox, and pretend nuclear physicist Cillian Murphy in Danny Boyle's
Sunshine, a film I've had on DVD for a while but only got round to watching a few days ago. I'd say it's flawed but fascinating, and very reminiscent of a couple of other fascinating films, particularly the criminally underrated
Event Horizon and
Solaris. I should point out at this point that I've only seen the Steven Soderbergh/George Clooney 2002 remake of
Solaris, and not
Andrei Tarkovsky's 1972 original. By a strange coincidence Brian Cox was "scientific consultant"
on Sunshine.
One tangentially related footnote: of course Danny Boyle has been in the news this week after
Slumdog Millionaire cleaned up at the Oscars. Hazel did a photo shoot with him a few weeks previously, and I'm instructed to tell you that he is a very nice man indeed.
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