(Image credit: Focus Features) Asteroid City Is About Grief And Our Response To Trauma. There is a lot going on throughout the play at the center of the movie, but one of the plots that gets the ...

If the play within a show within a movie has you lost, we've got you covered. We explain and also delve into some interpretations for Wes Anderson's new movie, "Asteroid City," starring Jason ...

Yes, it’s true: Halfway through the play, the town of Asteroid City witnesses an alien visit. (Augie even gets a photo.) The encounter triggers a town-wide military quarantine.

Asteroid City from quirky filmmaker Wes Anderson offers its audience an avant-garde narrative about science-minded genius children at a Junior Stargazer conference in a place that looks like a New ...

However, this is not the plot of Asteroid City.. In fact, the movie is named not for this town but a fictional play, the making of which is the subject of a television show, which is the focus of ...

That Anderson set Asteroid City in 1955 is a bit of trickery, a degree of separation between the characters’ reality and our own. We live in (dare I say) uniquely frightening times, but so do ...

‘Asteroid City’ Review: Our Town and Country In his latest film, Wes Anderson and his all-stars go meta with a TV show about a theatrical play that, in turn, is about a small town, U.S.A ...

There’s such meticulous work on the sterile set of “Asteroid City,” the 90-degree camera turns and pans that establish and solidify its arid environment, the deliberate soundstages of the TV ...