One of my favorite films is Ed Wood’s PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE. The movie needs no introduction, but in case you’ve never heard of it, you can watch it for free here, and you can read its many online reviews, such as this one from Badmovies.org. In the film the aliens choose to follow […]
Science Fiction
VOLTRON FORCE
One of my favorite animated television programs from my childhood in the 1980s is VOLTRON: DEFENDER OF THE UNIVERSE. The series follows the adventures of two teams of space explorers. The first team, the Voltron Lion Force, consists of five members — Keith, Lance, Pidge, Hunk and Princess Allura — each of whom flies a […]
WAR OF THE SATELLITES – Redressed Sets Aplenty
In Roger Corman’s WAR OF THE SATELLITES (1958), Dick Miller and Susan Cabot play scientists and crew members of a spacecraft of the Sigma Project, whose mission is to explore deep space. Before doing so it must first breach the “Sigma barrier,” a mysterious energy field put in place by advanced aliens who don’t want […]
STARCRASH: A Sci-Fi Color Feast for the Eyes
I became a science-fiction fan the first time that I watched STAR WARS on RCA VideoDisc, which my family rented from Hansbarger Appliances when I was probably four or five years old. By the late 1980s, I had also absorbed then-contemporary classics such as BLACKSTAR, KNIGHT RIDER, TRANSFORMERS, MIGHTY ORBOTS, VOLTRON, THE LAST STARFIGHTER and ROBOTECH. In 1987 I […]
FLASH GORDON (Steve Holland)
I love science-fiction movies and TV. For whatever reason I tend to gravitate toward the older stuff. One such example is the 1950s FLASH GORDON television series starring Steve Holland. I wouldn’t call it a great show, but I can see how it would be entertaining for children of all ages… like me. Of all […]
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