Interstellar - DVD review

Directed by Christopher Nolan, 2014

Warner

Christopher Nolan is famed for making brainy blockbusters but his latest balances head, heart and sheer Spielbergian wonder. It opens in a near-future Earth on the brink of destruction.

Matthew McConaughey plays an astronaut turned farmer and widowed father of two who is summoned by strange forces to a secret Nasa location. The virtue of this first half hour is that it builds emotional background and characters feel bedded in before the vertiginous cinematic thrills and high-concept hokum begin in earnest.

And it's a wild ride: space travel, black holes and wormholes, through to a finale in an astral limbo that is both psychedelic and touching.

That Interstellar succeeds is largely down to McConaughey, who brings conviction to even the most convoluted sci-fi babble and gives the film its emotional anchor.

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