For its first half-hour or so, "The American Astronaut" looks like midnight-movie nirvana in the tradition of "Eraserhead" and "Pink Flamingos." Unfortunately that blast-off heralds an orbit to ...

Rooted firmly in the tradition of such major film eccentrics as Guy Maddin, Aki Kaurismaki and Darren Aronofsky of "Pi," Cory McAbee's "The American Astronaut" crosses Jean-Luc Godard's ...

Weekend Watch: 'The American Astronaut,' a Bizarre Interplanetary Mining Musical. The delightfully strange movie you should watch this weekend. By John Wenz Published: Jun 26, 2015 2:15 PM EDT.

For its first half-hour or so, "The American Astronaut" looks like midnight-movie nirvana in the tradition of "Eraserhead" and "Pink Flamingos." Unfortunately that blast-off heralds an orbit to ...