Movie Reviews: Interseller, Out of Here, Say When

THE EARTH is in terminal decline as Interstellar (12A) opens, with the planet in the implacable grip of a food crisis that is slowly starving the world to death. Once an engineer, now a struggling farmer, Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) and his young daughter Murph (Mackenzie Foy) receive some intriguing signals left hanging in the thick dust that chokes the air, messages Murph believes have been sent by a ghost. Cooper, applying a more scientific approach, tracks the messages to a disused ex-military facility, where he discovers ‘the Lazarus Mission’ — a desperate plan to send manned exploratory probes out into space to discover habitable planets before the human race dies out.