What do you get when you cross Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey with Shakespeare’s The Tempest? Well in 1979 Walt Disney Studios kind of answered that question with the release of their first PG-rated film called The Black Hole. Unfortunately, that answer was something audiences of the late 70s were not particularly interested in…
Tag: science fiction
The Cat from Outer Space (1978) – Review
By the 1970s the Golden Age of Disney animated movies was clearly over and the studio began to focus on their live-action movies, for not only were they cheaper to make than animated features but you could also make a dozen or more live-action films for the price of one animated feature.
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017) – Review
Can true love save the day? Well in the 1997 science fiction film The Fifth Element writer/director Luc Besson certainly thought so as that film revealed that love was the key ingredient to saving the universe and now 20 years later with Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets Luc Besson once again puts…
Geostorm (2017) – Review
Geostorm is a political/thriller/science fiction action film disguised as a disaster movie; the marketing of this film is clearly hoping to get fans of such films as The Day After Tomorrow and San Andreas , but even though this film does contain moments of massive destruction, as nature runs amok, this movie is more about…
Unidentified Flying Oddball (1979) – Review
The sub genre of science fiction/comedy was certainly no stranger to the Disney Studio, as they made good money off such classics as The Absent-Minded Professor and The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, but it was in 1979 that the studio decided to tackle Mark Twain in their adaptation of his satiric tale of A Connecticut…