What young boy wouldn’t want a robot as a best friend? This very idea is the premise for Brad Bird’s amazing animated film The Iron Giant but the concept dates back to 1954 and a low-budget science-fiction flick called Tobor the Great, a film that pits nefarious individuals against an 11-year-old boy and his robot…
Author: Mike Brooks
Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
Space Adventure Films of the 1950s
With the ending of World War II, and the entering of the atomic age, the popularity of science fiction had reached an almost fever pitch with audiences clamouring to see the latest startling visions of the future, from flying cars to visits to alien worlds, and Hollywood was not about to disappoint them and thus…
The Angry Red Planet (1959) – Review
Since H.G. Wells penned the classic tale of the War of the Worlds back in 1897 the planet Mars has continually been seen as a threat to the planet Earth, either by launching invasions or attacking astronaut interlopers, and this idea had really come to the fore by the end of the 1950s with a…
Queen of Outer Space (1958) – Review
By this point in the 50s, the trope of alien planets being ruled by women had been quite established, with the likes of Cat-Women on the Moon and Fire Maidens of Outer Space being two prime examples, hell, even Bud Abbott and Lou Costello got into the act with their film Abbott and Costello Go…
Missile to the Moon (1958) – Review
Back in 1969, NASA spent roughly $28 billion dollars to send men to the Moon, that’s $280 billion dollars once adjusted for inflation, but for Hollywood to achieve the “same” result it costs considerably less and in the case of some studios even less then what you’d pay for a used car, which resulted in…