Author: John J. Joex

The much-reviled Star Wars Holiday Special tried to capitalize on the success of the original film but…

1966’s Ultraman delivered a superhero vs. kaiju series that delighted young viewers at the time and that…

In 2003, the Sci Fi Channel rebooted the late-70’s camp space opera Battlestar: Galactica as a dark,…

2009’s Moon avoids the CGI overload so common in 21st-century genre films and delivers a throwback to…

1972’s Gargoyles had its production limitations, but it overcame those to deliver a creepy genre film that…

1973’s Mëkanïk Dëstruktïẁ Kömmandöh by Magma delivered a progressive rock classic and also an epic piece of…

1970’s UFO offers plenty of 60s/70s cheesiness, but it mostly avoided the pitfalls of its formulaic premise…

The fairy tale collections of the Brothers Grimm, which included such timeless stories as Rapunzel, Hansel and…

1954’s Them! gave us film’s first nuclear-mutated monster run amok while also delivering a strong sci fi…

1963’s Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle is not as well-known as the movies that followed,…