(1960, Upgraded 1/12/23) Peter Williams, Harold Goldblatt, Gerald Flood, Gillian Ferguson. A seven-part mini-series about a trip to the moon and all the dangers involved.  It’s good old fashioned space opera, even if the special effects are a bit crude.  It starts with four scientists taking off for the moon.  A second rocket, an auto-piloted supply ship, is to follow.  However, when the auto pilot goes awry on the supply ship, it must be manually flown or the explorers will die in space...

(1977) W. Gordon Allen, Juan Fava, Uri Geller, Trevor Constable. This film was one of a plethora of sci-fi and horror exploitation documentaries to come out in the wake of Chariots of the Gods. In this one, we’re led to believe that UFOs may actually be visiting us from another dimension.  There are lots of supposedly “authentic” UFO occurrences...

Armchair fiction presents extra large editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  Here’s a great paperback edition of that science fiction classic, “Operation: Outer Space” by the master of space opera, Murray Leinster.  They were alone and together among the stars!  A terrifying darkness engulfed the sky while on the horizon a fire flood consumed the Mountain!  The ship swayed again...

ONCE IN A NEW MOON (1934) Eliot Makeham, Rene Ray, Morton Selten.  A dead star approaches Earth.  As it passes by, some kind of gravitational pull breaks off a small chunk of the Earth and hurls it into space, where it becomes a new small moon of sorts.  There’s a little coastal town on that chunk, but it takes a while for the villagers to figure out what the hell’s going on...

(1968) Emil Horvath, Magda Vasarykova, Frantisek Filipovsky.  The fourth of Karel Zeman’s Verne films is a voyage into fantastic visual wizardry.  Adapted from Verne’s Hector Servadac, it recounts how a massive chunk of Earth becomes a comet, soaring across space with all of the area’s populace still on it...

(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...

 (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...

(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...

(1958) Michael Emmet, Ed Nelson, Angela Greene.   It’s the first time in widescreen DVD video for this ‘50s drive-in gem!  A spaceship returns to Earth carrying an astronaut who's been impregnated with alien embryos, also on board is an alien monster that terrorizes a group of scientists in their mountain laboratory...

(1965, Anamorphic Edition) John Saxon, Maurice Denhand, Patricia Haines, Alfred Burke.  A monstrous alien creature from Ganymede comes to Earth looking for young Earth females.  Why? To kidnap them...

(1983, Anamorphic Widescreen) Giancarlo Prete, Fred Williamson, George Eastman, Anna Kannakis.  Giancarlo and Fred are wandering mercenaries who help the survivors of a post-apocalypse fight off a group of evil homosexual biker dudes...

(1962) Wolf Rubinski,Julio Aleman, Armando Silvestre, Rosa Arenas. Our black-masked Mexican atomic super hero goes up against a gang of nefarious criminals who are conspiring to steal a volatile form

(1941) Aleksey Krasnopolsky, Pavel Kiyansky, A. Andriyenko-Zemskov.  This is a terrific Russian version of the classic Jules Verne science fiction-adventure tale.  Five fugitives escape from a mob during the middle of a Civil War battle by stealing a hot air balloon.  They soon find themselves deposited on a crag-riddled island filled with peril, including wild apes marauding pirates, and a primitive caveman...

(1970) Dean Jones, Philippe Leroy, Gastone Moschin, Rafael Alonso.  Jones is a professor working on a cure for the common cold.  He also happens into a mysterious Indian potion that makes one invisible, which he has occasion to use.  When a gang of crooks find out about Jones' invisibility serum, naturally they come after him.   Will Jones discover his antidote, beat the crooks, and get the girl? 

(1976) Giulio Brogi, Anna Karina, John Steiner.  A castaway arrives on a strange island with high, rocky cliffs. He stumbles upon a futuristic set of buildings, which are fabulous in design and interior contents.  Upon closer examination he discovers that everything is covered with dust—the buildings have been deserted for many years.  Then strange things start happening...