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In one of his most famed film roles, Gene Barry stars as Dr Clayton Forrester in director Byron Haskin’s and producer George Pal’s winning if unsubtle adaptation from the novel by H G Wells. It […]
Steven Spielberg’s magical 1982 sci-fi movie about a troubled small boy called Elliott (Henry Thomas) who befriends a funny-looking but fortunately friendly extra-terrestrial was back then the biggest money-making film of all time. The alien […]
In director Joe Dante’s highly engaging 1985 sci-fi fantasy, a trio of American schoolboys (Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix, Jason Presson) hastily launch themselves into space in a rickety home-made starship and encounter wacky and weird […]
After a night they can’t remember, comes a day they’ll never forget! Bill and Ted for the year 2000 – only they’re now called Jesse and Chester, and played by Ashton Kutcher and Seann William […]
Cult French director Luc Besson, working in an English studio and the then about-to-close London Royal Opera House, exuberantly embarks on Europe’s most expensive film, the 1997 science fiction action epic The Fifth Element. And […]
Director Neill Blomkamp’s 2009 satirical sci-fi action thriller from South Africa was a deserved, surprise worldwide smash-hit. It proves quite a breath of fresh air from the usual Hollywood blockbuster. For a start, it’s nice […]
In 1999 the long wait was finally over as writer-producer-director George Lucas embarks on the first episode of his always-planned second trilogy, as a prequel to the original 1977 Star Wars and set 32 years […]