by Rod Gustafson | Posted on Jan. 05, 2001
You either love it, or hate it, but there is no denying, Stanley Kubrick's cinematic version of Arthur C. Clarke's monumental novel will always stand in film history as the first real space movie made. When a group of scientists discover a black monolith buried on the moon is beaming a strange signal to Jupiter, they send a team of astronauts to investigate the largest planet. This now-classic Odyssey features computer glitches and unexplainable phenomena that have had audiences speculating ever since. Get the movie review and more. »
Rod Gustafson has worked in various media industries since 1977. He founded Parent Previews in 1993, and today continues to write and broadcast the reviews in newspapers, on radio and (of course) on the Internet. He currently serves as the President of the Alberta Association for Media Awareness, a provincial non-profit society. He also authors a regular column for The Parent's Television Council in Los Angeles. He and his wife Donna have four children.
