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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 […]
Co-writer/ director Peter Hewitt ‘s daft and wacky 2002 sci-fi family comedy tells the story of Patrick Smash (Bruce Cook), a boy born with an explosive problem but wants it to help him to fulfill his […]
Hugh Marlowe, Nancy Gates and Rod Taylor travel forward in time and must battle to try to save humanity and build a new world, in the daft but enjoyable 1956 sci-fi movie World Without End. […]
Yes, Thunderbirds are go again in director Jonathan Frakes’s smart-looking 2004 live-action comedy adventure Thunderbirds, based on Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s classic Sixties TV puppet stories of International Rescue. Sadly, all the strings, amateurish production and […]
Now here’s something tasty and a bit different – a 3D animated adventure comedy about landing on the Moon, then and now. It’s got an involving proper story to tell – it isn’t just a string of […]
Hammer Film Productions’ trail-blazing 1955 British sci-fi horror film The Quatermass Xperiment (US title The Creeping Unknown) is based on Nigel Kneale’s enormously successful 1953 BBC TV serial The Quatermass Experiment. The 1955 British film The Quatermass Xperiment is notable as Hammer Film […]
Matt Damon stars in director Ridley Scott’s 2015 The Martian as astronaut Mark Watney who is left behind by his evacuating crew, presumed dead after a devastating dust storm during a manned mission to Mars. But Watney […]