******SAUCER-SHAPED SPOILERS!****** Growing up in the 1970s, UFOs (as they were called then) were wildly popular. I watched alien visitation/invasion movies, such as “The War of the Worlds” (1953), “Earth vs. the Flying Saucers” (1956), and “Invaders from Mars” (1953)–that last one really scared the hell out of me watching it alone on late-night TV…
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“Paul” (2011) is Simon Pegg & Nick Frost’s cheeky homage to Spielbergian sci-fi…
******UNIDENTIFIED FLYING SPOILERS!****** British actors/comedians/writers Simon Pegg and Nick Frost broke geek ground with their memorable, short-lived fandom comedy “Spaced” (1999-2001), which was cowritten and co-created with costars Edgar Wright and Jessica Hynes. Pegg, Frost and Wright would follow with a George Romero inspired horror-comedy “Shaun of the Dead” (2004), which is where they first…