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Following Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965), the ever enterprising producer Roger Corman squeezed a second sci-fi movie out of cannibalising the 1962 Soviet film Planeta Bur. The 1968 American science fiction film Voyage to […]
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 […]
Frank Langella is lovely as an old man whose son gives him a robot programmed to take care of him. Then the one-time catburglar jewel thief and his new robot butler caretaker (voice of Peter […]
Set in a George Orwell-style computer-controlled tomorrow of the 25th century, when people are known by letters and numbers and a man and a woman rebel against the rigidly controlled society, co-writer/ director George Lucas’s […]
Director Kenneth Johnson’s pleasantly silly 1988 sci-fi fantasy comedy sequel is aimed at an even younger audience than the 1986 teen movie original. Alas, original stars Ally Sheedy and Steve Guttenberg and director John Badham […]
Director John Badham’s family-friendly 1986 teen movie stars Ally Sheedy and Steve Guttenberg as the pet-loving Stephanie Speck and the brilliant young scientific boffin Newton Crosby. The duo set out to rescue ‘Number Five’, a […]
Keanu Reeves stars as human-like alien Klaatu, originally played by Michael Rennie, in director Scott Derrickson’s tense, exciting and surprisingly good big-budget remake of the beloved 1951 sci-fi classic, The Day the Earth Stood Still. Jennifer […]