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Description: Apollo 10½: A space age childhood follows a young boy's fantasies about travelling to space, using beautiful rotoscoped animation to tell his story. Actor Jack Black and writer-director, Richard Linklater discuss the film and what it was like growing up in Houston during the Apollo era. For hippies at the time, says Linklater, the space race was "kind of nationalistic and a waste of money. I wanted to bring that into the movie as well and not have it just be this, 'Oh, everybody loved it," he says, "there's always conflict." At the time, the conflict was between the US and the Soviet Union, which loomed large over culture at that time. Making comparisons to today, "Russia is kind of, you know, something to be afraid of," he says. Apollo 10 1/2" is currently streaming on Netflix Read the full review here ➤ newscientist.com/article/mg25433820-700-apollo-10%25c2%25bd-a-smart-animation-about-growing-up-during-the-space-age Subscribe ➤ bit.ly/NSYTSUBS Get more from New Scientist: Official website: bit.ly/NSYTHP Facebook: bit.ly/NSYTFB Twitter: bit.ly/NSYTTW Instagram: bit.ly/NSYTINSTA LinkedIn: bit.ly/NSYTLIN About New Scientist: New Scientist was founded in 1956 for “all those interested in scientific discovery and its social consequences”. Today our website, videos, newsletters, app, podcast and print magazine cover the world’s most important, exciting and entertaining science news as well as asking the big-picture questions about life, the universe, and what it means to be human. New Scientist newscientist.com