******SPACESHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!****** One day, back in 2004, I was perusing my local Barnes & Noble bookstore when I came across a large coffee table book titled “Voyage to the Planets” (originally titled “Space Odyssey” in the UK), written by Tim Haines and Christopher Riley. The cover featured a photorealistic image of a young astronaut standing…
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Retro-Musings: “The Silent Star,” aka “First Spaceship on Venus” (1960) was an East German-Polish sci-fi flick that broke new ground…
******SPACESHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!******* As a youngster, I remember being home sick from school once with a mild fever. I flipped through the limited number of broadcast stations on our family’s 25″ Zenith TV before collapsing on the couch. I came across a promising sci-fi movie on a local station called “First Spaceship on Venus,” originally titled…
A slice of Soviet-era sci-fi cinema: “Planeta Bur” (1962) is three movies in one…
Soviet Sci-Fi Cinema. Russia’s Soviet era (1917-1991) was a difficult time, especially for artists, who worked under heavy state censorship. Many artists during this time were stifled, fined, imprisoned or even executed for daring to challenge the Soviet status quo through their works. That said, Soviet-era science fiction cinema still managed to produce some truly…