Moon (2009)

Bleak and engrossing, this sci-fi thriller is like a Twilight Zone episode, where someone is all alone and things go from bad to worse. The reliable Sam Rockwell (great in David Mamet's Heist (2001), George Clooney's Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) as Chuck Barris, Ridley Scott's Matchstick Men (2003), Choke, and Frost/Nixon) plays Sam Bell, an astronaut who is running a lunar energy station with no one to keep him company but the HAL-like computer GERTY (voice of Kevin Spacey, emoticons for a face). Lots of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) comparisons, as well as another movie that you would never guess, but I'm not telling because it's a spoiler. Director Duncan Jones and Rockwell each won film festival awards (Edinborough and Seattle, respectively) for this. Composer Clint Mansell (who scored all four of Darren Aronfsky's features so far, including The Wrestler, as well as a number of others) did a terrific job, too. After you see it, you might want to read the press kit, but it has spoilers big time. Just see it.

Just found out that Jones' real name is Duncan Zowie Haywood Jones, and he is the son of musician David Bowie, who was born David Robert Jones, and is famous for a lot of things, including being Ziggy Stardust.