'The Martian' is 10 years old. Looking back at sci-fi's answer to 'The Shawshank Redemption'

How Ridley Scott's third sci-fi masterpiece proved there is life on Mars after all, by telling a deeply human, and oddly familiar story.

10 years later, ‘The Martian’ is still Ridley Scott’s biggest hit and funniest movie

The scene explaining the Rich Purnell Maneuver embodies the tone of the movie. Rich Purnell, an astrophysicist played by Donald Glover, devises a plan to save Watney by having the Hermes accelerate ...