Ed Wood’s Plan 9 from Outer Space has been often labelled “The Worst Movie Ever Made” but that wasn’t until after it had wrestled that title away from 1956’s Fire Maidens of Outer Space a British entry into the realm of science fiction cinema that consisted mostly of scantily clad women, cardboard sets and an…
Category: Reviews
Conquest of Space (1955) – Review
With the success of Destination Moon producer George Pal decided to take that same “realistic” approached they used for their trip to the Moon for this depiction of the first voyage to Mars. Based on the popular non-fiction book Conquest of Space by author Will Ley, which was illustrated by Chesley Bonestell the man who…
Cat-Women of the Moon (1953) – Review
How disappointed do you think Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were to find the Moon completely devoid of sexy Moon babes? I’m betting the lack of women is the reason their time on the Moon barely lasted a day, but what would be the cause of such a disappointment? The fact that even the Ancient…
Project Moonbase (1953) – Review
Back in 2019 when then-President Trump signed a $738 billion defence spending bill he officially created what is now known as the Space Force, making it the sixth branch of the U.S. Armed Services – one assumes he didn’t know that the Air Force has had a military space program since 1945 – but Trump…
Flight to Mars (1951) – Review
After Rocketship X-M’s accidental and eventually doomed trip to the Red Planet it was up to producer Walter Mirisch over at Monogram Productions to give the public a true “Martian Experience” and with his film Flight to Mars that is just what the public got, right? Well, not quite, what the public actually received was…