When done well, sci-fi is one of my favorite genres for movies and television. Blade Runner, Battlestar Galactica (new), and Gattaca are among my favorite movie and television titles.

My husband and I were browsing Netflix’s Watch Instantly titles a few nights ago, and despite having seen Moon when it first came out on DVD, we decided to watch it again. It’s a fantastic movie. Directed by Duncan Jones (who happens to be David Bowie’s son — I promise this has nothing to do with my glowing review!), the movie centers on Sam Bell (played by the awesome Sam Rockwell), an employee contracted by Lunar Industries to extract helium-3 on the Moon to be used for clean energy back on Earth. Because of an issue with the communications system, Sam is only able to communicate to and from Earth through recorded messages. His three-year contract is two weeks from ending and he’s eager to get home to his wife and daughter. But it’s at this time that he starts to hallucinate, and ends up in a serious accident while out on a routine lunar run. He briefly wakes from being unconscious to hear GERTY, the robotic assistant, in what Sam believes to be a live conversation with Lunar Industries. It is then that Sam becomes suspicious of what’s going on and…I won’t tell you anything else because it would give away key plot details.

But trust me, it’s a good movie.