(1959) Ken Utsui, Junko Ikeuchi, Reiko Seto, Terumi Hoshi. What’s not to like?  It’s another hilarious Starman movie. This epic has our hero battling against the sinister brain of Balazar and his crazed minions of Marpetians... 

(1962, Upgraded 12/30/20) Yoko Tani, Oldrich Lukes, Julius Ongewe, Ignacy Machowski, Kurt Rackelman.   A big, international space expedition is launched after the discovery of an ancient alien artifact.  Their expedition...land on and explore the planet Venus, which is believed to be the artifact's place of origin...

(1965, Upgraded 7/11/22) Terrance Morgan, Jessica Dunning, Joseph O’Conor, Hannah Gordon, George Pastell.  An excellent B&W made-for-TV Brit feature.  The Earth has blown up!  No one knows why or how—it just happened.  One lonely Earth survivor (Morgan) is a nomadic tinker on Mars.  He spurns the love of a Martian woman in favor of shipping out to a colony on Venus, hoping to build a better life.  But things are not what he...

(1973) Keir Dullea, Walter Koenig, Gay Rowan, Robin Ward, Henry Beckman.  The people of The Ark discover a humanoid alien (Koenig) living in one of their domes.  His spaceship needs repairs before he can return to his own planet, so he enlists help from the Ark members.  But there is some duplicity going on—what is the alien hiding...

(1932) Harry Piel, Fritz Odemar, Lissy Arna, Annemarie Sorensen, Olga Limburg.  Harry is a taxi driver who finds an odd contraption on the back seat of his cab that renders him invisible.  He soon uses it to gain wealth and fame.  Watch for the scene at the racetrack where Harry scores a fortune.  His servant, though, has other ideas...

(1957) Ken Utsui, Junko Ikeuchi, Minoru Takada.  Over 100 minutes of mindless Japanese superhero sci-fi fun.  This two-disc set is in Japanese with no subtitles but the plots are so simple that it’s pretty darn easy to figure out what’s going on.  Our hero, Starman, battles enemy agents galore, all the while befriending a group of school children and concerned adults.  There are lots of lab scenes, fistfights, and...

(1958) Lubor Tokos, Hugh Downs, Arnost Navrátil, Miroslav Holub, Frantisek Slégr.  This is easily the best quality DVD edition of this fabulous science fiction film on the market.  The evil Count Artigas kidnaps the scientist Professor Roch and his assistant.  Artigas takes them to his headquarters inside an enormous volcano, far off at sea.  The machines the professor creates are incredible.  His heavy water experiments soon provide...

(1959, aka The Day the Earth Froze) Urho Somersalmi, Anna Orochko, Ivan Voronov, Andris Osins, Ada Voytsik. A superb Finnish fantasy epic about an evil witch who steals the sun and causes just about everything on the Earth to freeze. Also featured are magic harps, fields of snakes, a wizard, and a...

(1961) Dean Fredericks, Coleen Gray, Dolores Faith, Anthony Dexter, Francis X Bushman, Richcard Kiel.  There is something ultimately likable about this underrated sci-fi B-opus.  Astronaut Fredericks is stranded on a “phantom” planetoid. There he finds a race of miniature people menaced by a fleet of marauding alien monsters who attack in their flaming spaceships. This film is loaded with...

 (1962) Maria Perschy, Robert Cunningham, Uwe Friedrichsen, Karen Blanguernon, Gustavo Rojo.  Earth is in great peril.  Invading aliens attempt conquest by taking over peoples’ bodies at death.  They then use them as tools for their invasion plans...

 (1966) Ronald Hines, Petra Davie, Peter Madden, Gay Hamilton, Peter Madden Timothy Bateson.  Hines is haunted by the same dream every night, a dream in which he dies during a massive explosion at a chemical plant.  His wife, too, is haunted by similar dreams.  And why do they seem to be reliving the same 24 hours, with slight variations, day after day...

(1981) Kirsty Wilkinson, Lance Warren, Roy Leywood, William Johnson, Glynis McNicoll, Noel Trevarthn, William Ewens.  This is an amazing mini-series (8.1 rating on IMDB).  Two three-year old twins, a boy and a girl, are lost in the cold New Zealand woods.  Search parties are unable to find them.  They are saved by a strange glow from the sky...

(1957) Ken Utsui, Junko Ikeuchi, Minoru Takada. Over 150 minutes of simple Japanese superhero sci-fi fun. This two-disc set is in Japanese with no subtitles but—as with Vol. One—the plots are so simple that it’s quite easy to follow what’s going on.  Our hero, Starman, once again battles an endless array of villians as he flies about the galaxy, providing even more...

(1963) Renato Salvatori, Rosemary Dexter, Franco Luzzi, Mara Carisi.  This exceptional sci-fi film is filled with satire, comedy, and socially provocative moments.  A factory worker’s corpse is found in a culvert.  At the autopsy, the body miraculously comes back to life!  An alien named Omicron has taken control and slowly starts to learn his body’s functions...

(1964) Mark Stevens, Marianne Koch, Wolfgang Lukschy, Joachim Hansen, Walter Rilla. Stevens is a determined scientist experimenting with the suspended animation of chimps.  Next on the docket…humans!  He makes the decision to use himself as a guinea pig. Before going into deep freeze, though, his wife dies suddenly and he comes under suspicion of her possible murder.  Will he wake from his frozen state only to be...

(1966) Ronald Lewis, Sebastian Breaks, Charles Tingwell, Kate Story.  In the future, man has created a way of travel that literally tunnels through the very molecules of the solid earth itself.  This is all accomplished in “TAU-mode” shuttles.  But when a shuttle becomes encased deep within the Earth’s crust, the only way to rescue its passengers is by using a fantastic...

(1971) Tom Chadbon, Rob Walker, Robert Oates, Marianne Benet, David Whitman.   A squad of futuristic soldiers wakes up, somehow knowing they need to break into an enemy base.  Their mission is so secret that they have been hypnotically programmed with their instructions and will only recall each step of their undertaking when they hear a pre-arranged cue. Although their plans seem infallible, gradually paranoia begins to...

(1973) Keir Dullea, Gay Rowan, Robin Ward, Stephen Young, Budd Knapp.  Dullea, as Devon, has been seriously injured.  Rowan, as Rachel, sends out a request for help to an astro-medic ship.  However, there is an alien spacecraft in the area also seeking help. With lives hanging in the balance, the astro-medics are torn over...