A few years before "Spider-Man (2002)", Tobey Maguire starred in this charming flick about the simpler life of the 50s (in the USA) and the end of innocence. Most of the movie is in black and white, as intended, which causes the splashes of color to stand out even more.
Having grown up in the 60s, [...]

As long as I live, I will never tire of watching this movie. It has aliens, an invasion, an ordinary guy that fights back, and the good guy wins in the end. What's not to like about it?
This is one of John Carpenter's better films. The guy who plays "Frank" looked familiar to me and [...]

"The Amazing Colossal Man" is a B movie in every sense of the phrase. It has cheesy special effects, a horrible story, and insults our intelligence all at once. I thought it was fun to watch when I was a young boy and I still think it's fun. The amazing thing is, after months of [...]

If you're too young to remember the 1960s cartoon "Underdog", this movie might not be your cup of tea. It takes characters and situations out of the old cartoon series and puts them on the big screen for the first time as a live-action movie.
I watched it when I was a kid. It was one [...]

Eleanor Arroway works for SETI and starts receiving intelligent-life radio signals. She spends a great deal of time fighting bureaucracy and obtaining funding to receive and decipher what is being received.
Eventually, an alien-engineered sphere is created to send one of the characters on a journey of some sort. A sphere that gets blown up by [...]