Science Fiction & Fantasy > 1979 Science Fiction & Fantasy

Advantages: action/ thrills/ entertainment and down right daftness
Disadvantages: sometimes a little tacky

...the cool headed Gibson as Mad Max… pure insane brilliance at it's best. All though it will not be to every ones taste, with the sometimes tacky stunts and rather over the top special effects, especially in some of the death scenes, it is still a good movie to watch at least once for the shear action and entertainment. * Would I recommend this…? Yes I would… even if you're not a Gibson fan. It is everything that a good movie should be…action packed, ...
...without doubt 95 minutes of what is seen as hell on Earth, (and I don't just mean the film… although I feel certain people will say the movie is just that.. hell…?) If you want to get a copy of this movie then you can get one from www.amzon.co.uk for less than a fiver. Feel free, enjoy Mel Gibson in his younger days… if nothing else it's a laugh and paying a fiver for a laugh is cheap in these 'credit crunch' days… ... Read review

Advantages: Story, Acting, Visual Effects, Everything
Disadvantages: the UMD format, no extras,

I have owned Alien (and others in the series) in many guises, from VHS Tapes, The Alien Legacy boxset and the Quadrilogy Boxset through to now having the movie in UMD Format for the PSP, so yes you could say I am a fan of the films, and although the subsequent sequels (bar Aliens) has diminished in quality, I still enjoy each and every one of them. The Review It was on the year of release, 1979, when Ridley Scott's Alien first hit the cinema ...
...to the ship where the Alien is born and the crew have to tackle an ever evolving creature throughout the dark, cold steel caverns of the massive vessel. Although released in 1979 the catalyst for Alien or Star Beast as was the original working title (aren't we all glad that the name changed?) came 5 years previously when O'Bannon worked on the screenplay for Dark Star with John Carpenter, where, although a totally different movie, showed us the dirty ... Read review

Advantages: The entire main cast from the TV show return
Disadvantages: It is very slow

...INTRODUCTION ---------------- Released in 1979, STAR TREK - THE MOTION PICTURE is a sequel to the 1960s television show STAR TREK. The franchise had suffered the ignominy of an animated series in the mid-1970s, which is in fact regarded quite highly amongst aficionados, but this film really kickstarted the STAR TREK franchise, leading to a further 9 films with yet another currently being made, and another four TV series to date. The STAR TREK saga ...
...as the second film - STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN - as you will see if you read my upcoming review on that movie!) ---------------- THE PLOT ---------------- Admiral James T. Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise enter the enormous constructions surrounding V'Ger, an incredibly powerful being that is on a very destructive course through Starfleet space, heading towards the planet Earth. Kirk has a new First Officer (Decker, played by Stephen ... Read review

Advantages: Exquisite... simply exquisite.
Disadvantages: Too good to be true

...was the script editor on Doctor Who during its most successful period until - well, until now, I guess - and wrote some remarkable scripts for the series, although not always under his own name... City of Death is not just another Doctor Who story, it is THE Doctor Who story. It pastiches and celebrates so many things. The show's own history, most obviously, but also the whole gangster movie tradition. With a large amount of location filming in ...
...the Romantic figures of the Doctor and Romana represent hugely Godardian hero figures, particularly in the contrast with the practical oafish Duggan). Hammer Horror is also parodied in basement laboratory scenes. By mining such a deep cultural vein, and then throwing in a crazy time-travel sub-plot, the result is ninety minutes of the greatest television ever produced. The plot in a sentence: The Doctor and Romana loaf around Paris before eventually ... Read review

Advantages: Outstanding, jaw-dropping visual effects, majestic score, great production
Disadvantages: Acting, writing, story, direction...everything underneath

...know, a black hole is the remains of a supergiant star that has collapsed into itself; it is so dense and has such an intense gravitational field that nothing can escape it, not even light. In 1972, the first convincing candidate for a black hole was discovered by astronomers, and it was called Cygnus X-1; of course, the public still had a lot to understand about the mystery of black holes, as hardly anything was published in book form on the phenomenon. ...
...film to cash in on the STAR WARS craze, I’m one of those individuals who feels there is more to THE BLACK HOLE then meets the eye. ****************************************************************** THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE ****************************************************************** The starship Palomino is doing patrols far away from Earth; the crew consists of only five people: Captain Dan Holland (Robert Forster), his ... Read review