When a hot property is in the wings, one that looks be a potential blockbuster, it’s a sure bet that legendary B-movie producer Roger Corman will be thinking on how to capitalize on such a product with a cheap quickie of his own, thus when Steven Spielberg was in the midst of making his adaptation…
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It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958) – Review
If a plot consisting of a group of astronauts landing on an alien world that soon find themselves being stalked through their ship by a strange creature sounds a little familiar it’s because Dan O’Bannon, the screenwriter of the Ridley Scott science fiction classic Alien, was clearly a fan of this low-budget 50s entry in…
Scooby-Doo! Moon Monster Madness (2015) – Review
The Scooby gang is no novice when it comes to science fiction, as they’ve encountered actual aliens in Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders and battled computer simulations in Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase, but for Scooby-Doo! Moon Monster Madness, our plucky heroes leave the safety of Earth and venture off into space in one of…
Alien: Covenant (2017) – Review
I had some serious issues with Ridley Scott’s Alien prequel Prometheus, as it seemed to be a film that just randomly threw in mythology and then never bothered to explain anything – maybe Scott had hopes that we would all be patient enough to wait for the sequel to the prequel – but then he…
Retrospective Review: Alien 3 (1992)
If any film is proof that studios need to be kept as far away from the creative process of a film as possible, it’s Alien 3. To a lot of fans, myself included, Aliens didn’t really need a sequel, it ended perfectly. The queen’s hive destroyed, most, if not all of the Xenomorphs wiped out,…