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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. […]
Warning! Take Cover! Flying Saucers Invade Our Planet! Director Fred F Sears’s 1956 sci-fi thriller is an effective humans-against-the-aliens movie, with decent Ray Harryhausen effects (for their day) that include the excellent spinning space-saucers and […]
Co-writer/director Val Guest’s 1958 British naval farce Up the Creek is creakily written but it is rescued from sinking by some amusing gags and situations, but mainly by the performances, especially from Peter Sellers proving […]
Director Lewis Gilbert’s spectacular 1967 spy adventure You Only Live Twice is the fifth Bond movie. It boasts the astounding Japanese volcano that opens up to reveal an underground space station and has 007 Sean […]
‘Houston, we have a problem.’ Based on the true story of the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission to the Moon, director Ron Howard’s triumphant, deservedly popular movie won two Oscars, but disappointingly only for Best Film […]