Perhaps it would have been beneficial to the protagonist if the makers of the film had checked out some of Belmondo's action comedies. There, not only his charm and humour, but also his talent for stunts, were exploited, making for an excellent combination of awe-inspiring action and sweet...
Space Adventure Cobra: Directed by Osamu Dezaki. With Shigeru Matsuzaki, Akiko Nakamura, Toshiko Fujita, Yoshiko Sakakibara. After two years in hiding, a famed space pirate with a "psychogun" for a left arm joins a bounty huntress on a quest to save her
Alex Raymond’sFlash Gordonis a bit overdue for a cinematic reboot, but the 1980 film adaptation is a beloved camp classic for one of the first sci-fi pulp heroes. As a rockin’ soundtrack from Queen sets the scene, Flash Gordon (Sam J. Jones), Dale Arden (Melody Anderson), and Dr....
Sept. 1: Georges Melies' "Le Voyage dans la Lune," (A Trip to the Moon), the first full-length science fiction film on space travel, premiers at Robert-Houdin theater in Paris, France. Robert H. Goddard, then a high-school student, submits an article "The Navigation of Space" to ...
In 1982, Star Trek may have introduced audiences to the then-novel idea of burial in space, but in 1997 – a short 14 years following the film’s premiere – Celestis transformed that idea into reality. Now, in 2022, 40 years after The Wrath of Khan, Celestis is preparing to ...
Unlike most of Crichton's works that made it to the big screen, this movie was born from an original screenplay he wrote and chose to direct. It was also the first feature film to use digital image processing to "pixelate photography to simulate an android point of view" (an idea that ...
when the American motion-picture directorStanley Kubrick’s classic science-fiction film2001: A Space Odysseydepicted a spinning double-wheel station under construction aboveEarth. On a regular schedule, a fleet of commercial space planes flew people up to the station, from which they could catch ...
Related: Film 'Spacewoman' to celebrate NASA's Eileen Collins, 1st woman space commander and pilot First woman to spend (nearly) 1 year in space: Christina Koch NASA astronaut and Expedition 61 Flight Engineer Christina Koch works on the Cold Atom Lab (CAL) swapping and cleaning hardware insid...
(1982) and its sequels, F M Busby's Star Rebel (1984) and its sequels, Ben Bova's Privateers (1985), Mike Resnick's Santiago (1986), Iain M Banks's Consider Phlebas (1987) and other Culture novels, Colin Greenland's Take Back Plenty (1990), Stephen R Donaldson's Gap series, ...
Early examples include the 1979 James Bond film, Moonraker where shuttles played a major role well before any were actually launched, Activision videogame Space Shuttle: A Journey into Space (1982) and G. Harry Stine's novel Shuttle Down (1981). In the 1986 family film SpaceCamp, the ...