473 - Project Hail Mary

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Apr 24, 202600:45:40TV & Film

In 2015, Matt Damon found himself stranded on Mars in The Martian, an adaptation of Andy Weir's novel of the same name, and had to improvise unlikely solutions in order to survive and get home. In 2026, Ryan Gosling find...

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