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Sean Connery leads the all-star cast as astrophysicist Dr Paul Bradley, in director Ronald Neame’s sci-fi action thriller Meteor (1979), a late entry in the Seventies disaster movie stakes, about a meteor that strikes an asteroid […]
Director Nathan Juran’s 1964 sci-fi adventure yarn First Men in the Moon, taken from a story by H G Wells, is aimed to please eager teenagers, though it has some appeal to dads too. A […]
Ad Astra (2019) is a posh, great-looking space movie, with ambitions, but it is also slow and boring, and, in the end, much ado about nothing. It manages to pull off the rare trick of […]
Director John Sturges’s well-crafted but slow and sombre 1969 Sci-Fi space adventure Marooned finds a fine cast headed by Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna, David Janssen, James Franciscus, Gene Hackman, Lee Grant, Nancy Kovak and Mariette […]
Director Herbert L Strock’s 1963 poverty row film The Crawling Hand is a stinker. The low budget of $100,000 does it in. A space capsule is detonated in orbit and the astronaut inside blown up. […]
Writer-director William Sachs’s amusingly silly and entertainingly horrible 1977 drive-in sci-fi-horror movie The Incredible Melting Man stars Alex Rebar as infected spaceman Steve West (aka The Incredible Melting Man of course), whose flesh melts incredibly […]
Director Robert Altman concentrates more on human emotions than the special effects in his 1967 sci-fi thriller Countdown and the result is always fascinating if a little earnest and uncommercial, though that isn’t necessarily a […]