He’s sensitive both to their hubris and their capacity for wonder, capturing the worst of them, the best of them, and the stuff in the middle that’s just right.

The saga of the Mercury 7 was famously depicted in the 1979 book “The Right Stuff” by Tom Wolfe and then the 1983 movie of the same name directed by Philip Kaufman. Carpenter was portrayed in ...

It's a very different beast from Philip Kaufman's " The Right Stuff " (1983), at the time Hollywood's most celebrated ode to NASA's first decade in orbit.

Unlike the 1983 movie adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s book – which deftly cut between the celebrated astronauts and the unheralded exploits of test pilot Chuck Yeager – the focus here is squarely ...

The original film review of "The Right Stuff" from Oct. 21, 1983, by Sheila Benson.

With a three-hour run time and an unconventional structure, “The Right Stuff” wasn’t a typical space movie of the era. Audiences were used to the calm, thought-provoking serenity of the ...

‘The Right Stuff’: TV Review Leonardo DiCaprio is among the producers of Disney+'s new series adaptation of Tom Wolfe's 'The Right Stuff,' a nonfiction chronicle of the Mercury 7 astronauts.