The 1950s was the peak era for cinema’s exploration of extraterrestrial threats and one of the greatest threats depicted in sci-fi movies would be the robot, and while the likes of Gort from 20th Century Fox’s The Day the Earth Stood Still may be the most notable example of this, Allied Artists did their best…
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The Colossus of New York (1958) – Review
The sight of a colossal robot threatening the local populace is not a unique idea in the world of science fiction, Gort from The Day the Earth Stood Still being a prime example of this subject matter, but in 1958 producer William Alland tapped director Eugène Lourié to helm a science fiction film that dealt…
Cherry 2000 (1987) – Review
There have been many dystopian movies released over the years, with Mad Max rip-offs being a genre all unto themselves, but in 1987 Orion Pictures released a rather odd little entry in this post-apocalyptic wasteland of cinema in the form of Cherry 2000, a film that brought a little more sex and a lot less…
Archive (2020) – Review
If I learned anything from watching countless science fiction movies it’s that you shouldn’t mess with artificial intelligence and bringing back your dead wife is never a good idea. In this movie not only does the protagonist of writer/director Gavin Rothery sci-fi thriller Archive attempt both of those things but he also breaks the cardinal…
Bumblebee (2018) – Review
What happens when you get the man behind such animated films as Coraline and Kubo and the Two Strings, and give him a live-action Transformers movie? Well, the answer to that is you get a movie that is pretty much the exact opposite of the Michael Bay atrocities — which have made billions of dollars…