Sunday, 29 April 2018
Little Shop Of Horror 1986
Initial release: 19 December 1986 (USA)
Director: Frank Oz
Featured song: Little Shop of Horrors (from "Little Shop of Horrors")
Screenplay: Howard Ashman
Music composed by: Miles Goodman
Saturday, 28 April 2018
Friday, 27 April 2018
Wednesday, 18 April 2018
The Drive for Mass Shelters.
The Drive for Mass Shelters.
Cutaway Plan of Community Shelter under Bridge. Ken Riley illustration for Life magazine (January 1962).
Monday, 16 April 2018
Marte Distruggera la Terra! (The Angry Red Planet)
Initial release: 23 November 1959 (USA)
Director: Ib Melchior
Music composed by: Paul Dunlap
Budget: 200,000 USD
Initial DVD release: 1 April 2003 (USA)
Wednesday, 11 April 2018
Sunday, 8 April 2018
This Island Earth
Scientist Cal Meacham (Rex Reason) solves a mysterious puzzle that allows him access to a highly secretive program -- led by the mysterious Exeter (Jeff Morrow) -- that has assembled the world's greatest scientific minds in an attempt to quickly learn how to generate and store nuclear power. But with the help of fellow scientists Ruth Adams (Faith Domergue) and Steve Carlson (Russell Johnson), Meacham soon discovers that his host is not what he claims to be.
Initial release: 1 June 1955
Directors: Joseph M. Newman, Jack Arnold
Budget: 800,000 USD (estimated)
Box office: 1.7 million USD
Screenplay: Franklin Coen, Edward G. O'Callaghan
Initial release: 1 June 1955
Directors: Joseph M. Newman, Jack Arnold
Budget: 800,000 USD (estimated)
Box office: 1.7 million USD
Screenplay: Franklin Coen, Edward G. O'Callaghan
Saturday, 7 April 2018
Tuesday, 3 April 2018
the time machine
Scientist H. George Wells (Rod Taylor) builds a time machine, and despite the warning from his friend David (Alan Young) against "tempting the laws of providence," decides to visit the future. Jumping ahead 14 years, he observes changes in women's fashion. Jumping ahead 40, he meets David's son (also Young) amid a terrible war. Finally, he travels thousands of years ahead to discover a post-apocalyptic world inhabited by humanoid Eloi and the monstrous Morlocks that feed on them.
Initial release: 17 August 1960 (USA)
Director: George Pal
Distributed by: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Adapted from: The Time Machine
Awards: Academy Award for Best Visual Effects
Soylent Green
In a densely overpopulated, starving New York City of the future, NYPD detective Robert Thorn (Charlton Heston) investigates the murder of an executive at rations manufacturer Soylent Corporation. With the help of elderly academic Solomon "Sol" Roth (Edward G. Robinson), Thorn begins to make real progress -- until the governor mysteriously pulls the plug. Obsessed with the mystery, Thorn steps out from behind the badge and launches his own investigation into the murder.
Initial release: 19 April 1973 (New York City)
Director: Richard Fleischer
Story by: Harry Harrison
Screenplay: Stanley R. Greenberg
Box office: 3.6 million USD (rentals)
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