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Director Nicolas Roeg’s unique 1976 British sci-fi thriller The Man Who Fell to Earth is a challenging and mysterious fantasy. It is exasperating, mystifying, wildly self indulgent but strangely mesmerising and rather wonderful. The Man […]
Animation king Don (Anastasia) Bluth shows his versatility by heading for space this time in 2000 in a highly imaginative, explosively paced, gleamingly dark-looking adventure. Matt Damon provides the voice of the hero Cale, an […]
The 1998 sci-fi horror film Species II brings back Michael Madsen and Marg Helgenberger, and Natasha Henstridge returns as a new character. It is misjudged and wastes an OK premise, but has plus points in […]
Warning! Take Cover! Flying Saucers Invade Our Planet! Director Fred F Sears’s 1956 sci-fi thriller is an effective humans-against-the-aliens movie, with decent Ray Harryhausen effects (for their day) that include the excellent spinning space-saucers and […]
Director Bruno VeSota’s silly 1958 tame tingler is more science fiction than horror movie. It rejoices in a mundane plot about hairy alien parasites from the centre of the earth attaching themselves to the backs […]
Producer-director Roger Corman’s 1956 monster movie stars Peter Graves as a well-meaning scientist called Dr Paul Nelson. Lee Van Cleef plays Nelson’s old friend and fellow scientist, the disgruntled Tom Anderson, who cultivates the friendship of […]
Director Joseph Newman’s 1955 movie This Island Earth is a memorable, huge fun Fifties sci-fi thriller with a sprightly yarn about benevolent aliens kidnapping earthling scientists to save their planet. The film is fondly remembered […]