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War of the Satellites ** (1958, Richard Devon, Dick Miller, Susan Cabot, Eric Sinclair, Michael Fox, Robert Shayne, Bruno VeSota) – Classic Movie Review 3753

Producer-director Roger Corman’s primitive 1958 low-budget ($70,000) black-and-white science-fiction film stars Richard Devon (as Dr Pol Van Ponder), Dick Miller (as Dave Boyer) and Susan Cabot (as Sybil Carrington), and was quickly made to exploit the media frenzy over the launch of […]

May, 26

Silent Running **** (1972, Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin, Jesse Vint) – Classic Movie Review 2924

This nifty cult item is the 1972 directorial début of Douglas Trumbull, visual special effects supervisor wizard for 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Star Trek: The Motion Picture […]

Sep, 25

Conquest of Space *** (1954, Eric Fleming, Walter Brooke, Mickey Shaughnessy, William Hopper, Ross Martin, William Redfield) – Classic Movie Review 2573

Director Byron Haskin’s painstaking and realistic 1954 documentary-style sci-fi film comes from the illustrious stable of fantasy producer George Pal. It motors on an interesting screenplay by James O’Hanlon, derived from Willy Ley’s 1949 classic The […]

Jun, 08

Moonraker *** (1979, Roger Moore, Lois Chiles, Michael Lonsdale, Richard Kiel) – Classic Movie Review 952

Director Lewis Gilbert’s spoofy 1979 James Bond movie Moonraker is the fourth to star Roger Moore, this time on a mission to investigate the mid-air theft of a space shuttle. Strangely enough, he discovers that […]

Mar, 21

Elysium ***½ (2013, Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley) – Movie Review

I’ve got good and bad news for you. First the good news. It’s 2154, and if you’re rich you can fly off to live like royalty on Jodie Foster’s man-made space station floating high in […]

Aug, 14

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