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Robert Ball and Frankie Ray are putridly unfunny as Private Philbrick and Private Penn, US soldiers who investigate a mysterious crater in an atomic detonation area and uncover the titular lady alien Star Creatures (Dolores Reed […]
Director Lewis Milestone’s patriotic 1950 war movie stars Richard Widmark, who is on fine fighting form as Lieutenant Carl Anderson, the former school teacher who turns a rag-tag company of American Marines into an effective fighting […]
American star Brian Donlevy is back to reprise his sombre performance as the troubled rocket scientist Professor Bernard Quatermass in the second in Hammer Films’ trio of screen versions of Nigel Kneale’s classic 1950s BBC serials. This […]
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 […]
Director Fritz Lang’s last silent movie from 1929 is one of the first and most important sci-fi movies with its story of obsession about a half-mad greedy scientist, Professor Georg Manfeldt (Klaus Pohl), who finds that there […]
Everybody just loved The Rock. The cheeky 1996 action thriller about a threatened nerve gas attack on San Francisco stars Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage and Ed Harris and is directed by Michael Bay, for producers […]
Director Lesley Selander’s pioneering 1951 low-budget sci-fi movie quickie, produced by Walter Mirisch for poverty row studios Monogram, stars Cameron Mitchell, Marguerite Chapman, Arthur Franz, Virginia Huston, John Litel, Richard Gaines and Morris Ankrum. […]