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…
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Rocketship X-M (1950) – Review
In 1950 two science fiction films sent cinemagoers venturing off into space, one was George Pal’s seminal classic Destination Moon and the other being Kurt Neumann’s Rocketship X-M, but where George Pal’s film was attempting to depict a nuts and bolts representation of a trip to the Moon, with at least some attempt at scientific…
Destination Moon (1950) – Review
It was back in 1902 when Georges Méliès adapted Jules Verne’s novel “From the Earth to the Moon” to the big screen for his short film A Trip to the Moon that the idea of bringing science fiction works of literary greats had truly begun – though I’m betting the “Man in the Moon” getting…
Straight Outta Nowhere: Scooby-Doo! Meets Courage the Cowardly Dog (2021) – Review
Scooby-Doo and guest stars go together like peanut butter and jelly as is pairing the Scooby gang with a variety of celebrities icons, which dates back to 1972 and The New Scooby-Doo Movies and this concept continue to this day with Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? but with Straight Outta Nowhere our favourite Great Dane finds…
The Crater Lake Monster (1977) – Review
The idea of a Loch Ness type monster inhabiting a lake in Northern California is certainly an interesting premise but an interesting premise will only get you so far and as often is the case it will at least require a modicum of a decent budget to correctly pull off but with The Crater Lake…