Italian director Antonio Margheriti was approached by MGM to make four science fiction films back-to-back in 1965 and 1966 using the same sets, costumes, props…
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It is May 1953 on the battlefields of Korea – some three weeks before the truce will be signed between the Chinese Communists and the…
In 11th Century Normandy, Chrysagon de la Cruex (Charlton Heston) – a warlord for a Norman duke – is appointed the ruler of a primitive…
David Puttnam’s tale of an Irish childhood – adapted by Colin Welland from a Louis Pergaud novel filmed by Yves Robert in 1962 – is…
Following Assignment: Outer Space and Battle of the Worlds, Italian director Antonio Margheriti was approached by MGM to make four science fiction films back-to-back. Margheriti also…
The War of the Roses is a ferocious black comedy about divorce, both funny and cynical. Barbara (Kathleen Turner) and Oliver (Michael Douglas) Rose are the…
An unseen energy field in space repeatedly destroys manned spacecraft from the United Nations Sigma Project space program. A small missile-like object lands on Earth,…
Loosely adapted from H.G. Wells’ classic novel of the same name, this 1953 doomsday sci-fi was billed as a “mighty panorama of Earth-shaking fury as…
“Shall we play a game?” With the advent of computing systems like Apple and Commodore, home computers became a major fad in the early 1980s…
It may be small change compared with today’s CGI monster movies, but this is still a decent romp from director Kevin Connor, and it’s far…
Warning from Space – originally titled Uchûjin Tôkyô ni arawaru (literally “Aliens Appear in Tokyo”) – was the first Japanese science fiction movie filmed in…
“Let’s get down to it Boppers . . .” Hundreds of gangs from all of New York’s five boroughs show up for a summit at…
Janice Starlin (Susan Cabot) is the founder and owner of a large cosmetics company and former glamour model who is worried about getting old. Mad…
On his wedding day, sailor Albert Tufnell (John Meillon) is torn between delight at the prospect of marrying pretty Shirley Hornett (Vera Day) and alarm…
Bumbling Seaman Blissworth (Kenneth Connor) accidentally destroys the vital top-secret wiring plans for the new experimental Acoustic Torpedo Mk2 (codenamed “The Creeper”) and spends the…
British comedy-writing legends Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais wrote this funny satire about West Indies-style politics and the decline of British colonialism in the…
Adam Sandler plays Bobby Boucher, an unschooled, unscrewed Louisiana mama’s boy who ladles out “quality H2O” to a college football team that kicks his ass…
In one bloody day of death and slaughter – 18 June 1815 – a total of 52,000 men were killed in a battle that lasted…
Black comedian Godfrey Cambridge stars as Jeff Gerber, who we initially meet as an obnoxious, bigoted, loud-mouthed, racist white insurance man (the whiteface makeup is…
This animated version of Richard Adams’s bestselling novel about a group of rabbits searching for a new home was a box-office success, despite the difficulty…