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.

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

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

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 ...

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 knows a little bit about being in space ... Mara’s new movie The Astronaut is about a space traveller feeling abandoned at home. “For a lot of the film, I am solo,” Mara says ...

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 ...

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 ... onboard work quickly to retrieve Captain Sam Walker (Kate Mara) from the vessel. She’s a NASA agent who has just ...