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Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood

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Brett Alan Dewing
Apr 04, 2022
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Writer/director Richard Linklater returns to the rotoscoping animation of his previous films Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly with his new Netflix film, Apollo 10 1/2. Linklater goes to the length of naming his main character Stan, but other than that, this is a blatant autobiography about growing up in the 1960s. 

The first half of the film doesn’t real…

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