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George Clooney acts his socks off as civilian psychiatrist Dr Chris Kelvin, a shrink who sets off to investigate the mystery deaths of scientists on a cut-off space station at the video request of his friend Dr […]
Aliens are employing Bill Farrell (Tom Tryon) to control the Earth in producer-director Gene Fowler Jnr’s cheap and cheerful 1958 sci-fi cult movie, made for just $175,000 by Paramount. Poor Marge (Gloria Talbott) finds that being Tryon’s new […]
MGM’s landmark 1956 Forbidden Planet one of the all-time great sci-fi films, looking thrilling in Eastmancolor and CinemaScope. It stars Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, and Leslie Nielsen, Warren Stevens, Jack Kelly, Richard Anderson and Earl […]
Director Russell Mulcahy’s likeable and agreeable enough 1990 sequel unfortunately lacks the kind of magic of his 1986 hit, so it must be counted a disappointment. With nowhere to go after the first film, it’s […]
Both director Paul Verhoeven and his star Arnold Schwarzenegger are on or very near their best form for this exhilarating 1990 science-fiction thriller, a clever mix of bright ideas, involving plot, witty satire and violent […]
After director Leonard Nimoy’s jovial Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986), the starship USS Enterprise comes down to Earth with a dullish thud in 1989 as William Shatner takes over the directing helm as […]
Leonard Nimoy takes over the helm as director of the third movie in 1984, in which the starship USS Enterprise is scheduled for scuttling, Bones McCoy (DeForest Kelley) is suffering from a Vulcan mindmeld, the […]