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‘Stop Watching The Skies… Start Watching Your Back. The Secret Is Out.’ Director Kevin Tenney’s 1998 Canadian sci-fi thriller Arrival II [The Second Arrival] is the dreary, plodding and unimaginative sequel to The Arrival (1996), […]
Writer-director John Sayles’s entertaining, satirical 1984 sci-fi comedy The Brother from Another Planet is about a mute alien extra-terrestrial brother (Joe Morton) from another planet who arrives in Harlem, where he impresses the community and […]
Director Daniel Petrie’s 1988 senior citizen sci-fi sequel Cocoon: The Return sees the welcome return of the spaced-out Florida wrinklies, with more or less everybody (the entire main cast) returning from the original, but not […]
Director Malcolm St Clair’s 1944 comedy The Big Noise is a still smile-worthy if relatively feeble, padded-out late-period movie from Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, in which the Boys are detective agency janitors who pretend […]
Director Sean S Cunningham’s 1989 underwater-monster fantasy thriller DeepStar Six is just about watchable for sci-fi buffs, but it is submerged by the lack of action, an unimaginative alien and the particularly silly climax. This […]
Director Steve Barron’s 1993 sci-fi spoof Coneheads stars an impressive line-up in Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, Michelle Burke, Laraine Newman, Phil Hartman, Dave Thomas, Michael McKean, Jason Alexander, Lisa Jane Persky, Adam Sandler, Sinbad, Jan […]
Director Terence Fisher’s 1964 British sci-fi horror quickie The Earth Dies Screaming is cheap and cheerful. [Spoiler alert] Robots have turned most folk in England into zombies. Well we knew all this telly watching wouldn’t […]