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In what Alex Cox called ‘an act of cinematic cannibalism’, producer Roger Corman’s 1965 sci-fi movie is one of two he adapted from the 1962 Soviet film Planeta Bur (Planet of the Storms), scripted by Aleksandr Kazantsev […]
Co-writer/ director Peter Hewitt ‘s daft and wacky 2002 sci-fi family comedy tells the story of Patrick Smash (Bruce Cook), a boy born with an explosive problem but wants it to help him to fulfill his […]
‘THE 26TH CENTURY! Sub-Human Monsters… Mammoth Tiger Spiders… Mole-Tunnel Cities… Futurific Women… in the Screen’s Mighty Science-Shocker!’ Writer-director Edward Bernds’s daft but enjoyable 1956 sci-fi movie World Without End tells the tale of a space […]
Yes, Thunderbirds are go again in director Jonathan Frakes’s smart-looking 2004 live-action comedy adventure Thunderbirds, based on Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s classic Sixties TV puppet stories of International Rescue. Sadly, all the strings, amateurish production and […]
Now here’s something tasty and a bit different – a 3D animated adventure comedy about landing on the Moon, then and now. It’s got an involving proper story to tell – it isn’t just a string of […]
The Quatermass Xperiment is notable as Hammer’s first venture into horror movies, and the first X-certificate movie from a British company. Director Val Guest’s 1955 first spin-off from Nigel Kneale’s BBC TV serials is a […]
Matt Damon stars in director Ridley Scott’s 2015 The Martian as astronaut Mark Watney who is left behind by his evacuating crew, presumed dead after a devastating dust storm during a manned mission to Mars. But Watney […]