They Live (1988)

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 [...]

Contact (1997)

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 [...]

UFO (1970-1973)

I have some fond childhood memories of TV shows that lasted awhile. Obviously, no TV series survived longer than "Gunsmoke" which ran from 1955 to 1975 (20 years), but some didn't last long enough to make a lasting impression. UFO barely made a blip on the radar of my memories. Of course, I was only [...]