Production Company(ies)
Alcon Entertainment, Columbia Pictures, Sony
 
Distributor
Cinema Classics, Universal Pictures, Video Classics, MCA/Universal Pictures [us]
 
Release Type

 
Filming Location(s)
Airstrip, Breakish, Skye, Highland, Scotland, UK
 
MPAA / Certificate
PG
 
Year of Release
1980
 

 
Genre(s)
Sci-fi
 
Keyword(s)

Cast & Crew

David Oyelowo

Tom Wilkinson

Carmen Ejogo

Giovanni Ribisi

Alessandro Nivola

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

President Lyndon Baines Johnson

Coretta Scott King

Lee White

John Doar

David Oyelowo – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Tom Wilkinson – President Lyndon Baines Johnson
Carmen Ejogo – Coretta Scott King
Giovanni Ribisi – Lee White
Alessandro Nivola – John Doar
Cuba Gooding Jr. – Fred Gray

 

Mike Hodges

Alex Raymond

Dino De Laurentiis

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Mike Hodges
 
Writer(s)
Alex Raymond, Michael Allin, Lorenzo Semple Jr.
 
Producer(s)
Dino De Laurentiis

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
2 wins & 12 nominations total
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

Charlotte O’Sullivan

Peter Bradshaw

Anton Bitel

Variety Staff

Dave Kehr

London Evening Standard

Guardian

Little White Lies

Variety

Chicago Reader

FLASH GORDON
 All Critics (49) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (41) | Rotten (8)
 Basically, whether laughing with this film, or at it, you’ll have a blast.
 
 August 10, 2020 | Rating: 4/5
 
 Charlotte O’Sullivan
 London Evening Standard
 TOP CRITIC
 Perhaps, like many a superhero film, this one flags just a little in the final battle sequences, but Von Sydow is always there to keep things bizarre, playing it absolutely straight.
 
 July 31, 2020 | Rating: 4/5
 
 Peter Bradshaw
 Guardian
 TOP CRITIC
 a mid-air skirmish of corny old-fashioned retrofuturism and knowing postmodernism, even as its veneer of homespun innocence keeps being subverted by the corrupting powers of kink.
 
 July 31, 2020
 
 Anton Bitel
 Little White Lies
 TOP CRITIC
 The expensive new version of Flash Gordon is a lot more gaudy, and just as dumb, as the original series starring Buster Crabbe.
 
 March 26, 2009
 
 Variety Staff
 Variety
 TOP CRITIC
 A respectable time-waster.
 
 April 16, 2007
 
 Dave Kehr
 Chicago Reader
 TOP CRITIC
 Laughably bad and fantastically good all at once, this is a guilty pleasure that everyone can enjoy.
 
 November 3, 2005 | Rating: 4/5
 
 Adam Smith
 Empire Magazine
 TOP CRITIC
 While it is undoubtedly messy, silly and incoherent, Flash Gordon still works 40 years on from its original release.
 
 May 5, 2022 | Rating: 4/5
 
 Laurence Boyce
 VODzilla.co
 Once upon a time, comic book movies weren’t always such serious affairs.
 
 May 10, 2021 | Rating: 3/4
 
 Kathy Fennessy
 Seattle Film Blog
 The combination of so many forms of bad filmmaking results in a campy bit of surreally over-the-top fun.
 
 September 6, 2020 | Rating: 6/10
 
 Mike Massie
 Gone With The Twins
 Director Mike Hodges’ Flash Gordon is a wonderfully executed piece of science fiction cinema. It’s a film which has become a much deserved cult classic since its original release way back in 1980.
 
 August 7, 2020 | Rating: 5/5
 
 Niall Browne
 Movies in Focus
 You’ll never see anything else quite like it.
 
 August 6, 2020
 
 Rob Aldam
 Backseat Mafia
 A kaleidoscopic trip, Flash Gordon remains a cheerful tale of rich textural spaces.
 
 August 4, 2020 | Rating: 4/5
 
 Alasdair Bayman
 CineVue…

 

Plot
American footballer Flash Gordon is thrust into the journey of a lifetime: joined with Dale Arden and Dr. Hans Zarkov, the three earthbound space travellers will soon become the first humans to encounter alien life, and try to stop the tyrannical alien warlord Emperor Ming the Merciless from destroying the Earth.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
NA
 

 
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Production Company(ies)
Charles Chaplin Productions,
 
Distributor
Warner Home Vídeo, Anchor Bay Entertainment
 
Release Type

 
Filming Location(s)

 
MPAA / Certificate

 
Year of Release
1976
 

 
Genre(s)
Sci-fi
 
Keyword(s)
starring David Bowie, Candy Clark, Buck Henry, Rip Torn, Bernie Casey, Jackson D Kane, directed by Nicolas Roeg, written by Paul Mayersberg, Walter Tevis, sci-fi, box office performance, budget, reviewed by Adam Nayman, Kate Muir, Peter Bradshaw, Tom Huddleston, Jay Cocks, David Gritten, Richard Corliss, Tom Cassidy, Armond White, David Lamble, David A Nardozzi, Jacoba Atlas, produced by Michael Deeley, Barry Spikings, R-rated, alien, water, inventions, lawyer, government, love, materialism, mass media, spiritual emptiness, society, culture, gender-bending, Ziggy Stardust, loneliness, xenophobic tendencies, stunning visual imagery, satire, corporate politics, melancholy, muddled, style, cult classic, Warner Home Vídeo, Anchor Bay Entertainment
 

Cast & Crew

David Bowie

Candy Clark

Buck Henry

Rip Torn

Bernie Casey

Thomas Jerome Newton

Mary-Lou

Oliver Farnsworth

Nathan Bryce

Peters

David Bowie – Thomas Jerome Newton
Candy Clark – Mary-Lou
Buck Henry – Oliver Farnsworth
Rip Torn – Nathan Bryce
Bernie Casey – Peters
Jackson D. Kane – Professor Canutti

 

Nicolas Roeg

Paul Mayersberg

Michael Deeley

Barry Spikings

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Nicolas Roeg
 
Writer(s)
Paul Mayersberg, Walter Tevis
 
Producer(s)
Michael Deeley, Barry Spikings

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
NA
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

Adam Nayman

Kate Muir

Peter Bradshaw

Tom Huddleston

Jay Cocks

The Ringer

Times (UK)

Guardian

Time Out

TIME Magazine

THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH
 All Critics (65) | Top Critics (22) | Fresh (53) | Rotten (12)
 As a meditation on encroaching spiritual emptiness, set in a society hypnotized by materialism and mass media-Roeg’s film is so rich and lucid that it could be an essay.
 
 November 26, 2018
 
 Adam Nayman
 The Ringer
 TOP CRITIC
 The real story is less about the sci-fi and more about the weirdness on Earth, a woozy dream of greed and alcohol and betrayal, as the gentle Newton is preyed upon by hucksters and the American government.
 
 September 9, 2016 | Rating: 5/5
 
 Kate Muir
 Times (UK)
 TOP CRITIC
 A freaky, compelling concept album of a film.
 
 September 8, 2016 | Rating: 5/5
 
 Peter Bradshaw
 Guardian
 TOP CRITIC
 There are moments here that approach the sublime.
 
 September 5, 2016 | Rating: 4/5
 
 Tom Huddleston
 Time Out
 TOP CRITIC
 Roeg’s exuberance and invention are compromised here by a yarn that carries dank traces of Twilight Zone.
 
 January 13, 2016
 
 Jay Cocks
 TIME Magazine
 TOP CRITIC
 One has to say this for The Man Who Fell to Earth: such a bold, imaginative work would never get made in today’s fettered, cautious film industry, either here or in America. Roeg’s work may have its faults – but its ambition is beyond reproach.
 
 January 13, 2016
 
 David Gritten
 Daily Telegraph (UK)
 TOP CRITIC
 The Man Who Fell to Earth winds up looking like a Carnaby Street commercial for alienation.
 
 June 22, 2022
 
 Richard Corliss
 New Times (magazine)
 A movie to be experienced and interpreted rather than understood, The Man Who Fell to Earth might be frustrating for some. But when caught in the right mood at the right time, it transports you to another world that delivers rich rewards.
 
 January 5, 2022 | Rating: 4/5
 
 Tom Cassidy
 Common Sense Media
 Nicholas Roeg has a daring, original gift as a director that he can’t yet fully control; when, if ever, he gets that control, one will be able to call it style.
 
 June 30, 2021
 
 Armond White
 Ann Arbor Sun
 Virtually every aspect of David Bowie’s gender-bending Ziggy Stardust persona acquires heightened significance as he plays an alien from a water-depleted planet desperate to save his dying species.
 
 June 10, 2020
 
 David Lamble
 Bay Area Reporter
 Directed by Nicholas Roeg, it is a needlessly symbolic, over-intelligent production that is just too complicated and esoteric to be easily digested.
 
 May 26, 2020
 
 David A. Nardozzi
 Philadelphia Gay News
 What must be applauded in The Man Who Fell to F.arth is the visual imagination of Nicholas Roeg and his uncompromising vision.
 
 October 31, 2019
 
 Jacoba Atlas
 Los Angeles Free Press…

 

Plot
An alien named Thomas Jerome Newton comes to Earth in search of water to save his home planet. He uses his knowledge of advanced technology to create profitable inventions, but his entire plan is threatened when he is intercepted by the U.S. government.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
The Man Who Fell to Earth stars the iconic musician David Bowie in the lead role.
 

 
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Production Company(ies)
Stanley Kubrick Productions,
 
Distributor
NA
 
Release Type
Theatrical
 
Filming Location(s)
San Antonio, Texas, USA
 
MPAA / Certificate
PG
 
Year of Release
1974
 

 
Genre(s)
Comedy/Drama
 
Keyword(s)
starring Goldie Hawn, William Atherton, Ben Johnson, Michael Sacks, Gregory Walcott, Steve Kanaly, directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Hal Barwood, Matthew Robbins, comedy, drama, box office performance, budget, reviewed by Rex Reed, John Huddy, Kevin Thomas, Susan Stark, Elston Brooks, Joe Pollack, Stanley Eichelbaum, Susan White, John Simon, Yasser Medina, Dick Lochte, Ángel S Harguindey, produced by Richard D Zanuck, David Brown, PG rating, small-time crooks, Texas, highway patrolman, hostage, folk heroes, family, road movie, countercultural, Steven Spielberg’s feature debut, crowd-pleasing elements
 

Cast & Crew

Goldie Hawn

William Atherton

Ben Johnson

Michael Sacks

Gregory Walcott

Lou Jean Poplin

Clovis Michael Poplin

Captain Harlin Tanner

Patrolman Maxwell Slide

Patrolman Ernie Mashburn

Goldie Hawn – Lou Jean Poplin
William Atherton – Clovis Michael Poplin
Ben Johnson – Captain Harlin Tanner
Michael Sacks – Patrolman Maxwell Slide
Gregory Walcott – Patrolman Ernie Mashburn
Steve Kanaly – Patrolman Jessup

 

Steven Spielberg

Hal Barwood

Richard D. Zanuck

David Brown

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Steven Spielberg
 
Writer(s)
Hal Barwood, Matthew Robbins
 
Producer(s)
Richard D. Zanuck, David Brown

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
2 wins & 5 nominations
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

Rex Reed

John Huddy

Kevin Thomas

Susan Stark

Elston Brooks

New York Daily News

Miami Herald

Los Angeles Times

Detroit Free Press

Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com

THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS
 All Critics (48) | Top Critics (17) | Fresh (41) | Rotten (7)
 A highly winning entertainment.
 
 April 20, 2021
 
 Rex Reed
 New York Daily News
 TOP CRITIC
 A work of depth and dimension.
 
 April 20, 2021
 
 John Huddy
 Miami Herald
 TOP CRITIC
 It is astonishing to contemplate all that director Steven Spielberg and his writers Hal Barwood and Matthew Robbins, all of them in their theatrical feature debuts, have managed to accomplish.
 
 April 20, 2021
 
 Kevin Thomas
 Los Angeles Times
 TOP CRITIC
 Engrossing to watch, it begins to work on you, to declare its claim to greatness, after a while. You’ll see.
 
 April 20, 2021
 
 Susan Stark
 Detroit Free Press
 TOP CRITIC
 A truly delightful and entertaining picture.
 
 April 20, 2021
 
 Elston Brooks
 Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
 TOP CRITIC
 The picture stops being fun and becomes a slowly developing horror story, moving to an eventual and unrealistic climax with the stolidity and the implacable power of a glacier.
 
 April 20, 2021
 
 Joe Pollack
 St. Louis Post-Dispatch
 TOP CRITIC
 As vigorously entertaining as any film we’ve had this year.
 
 April 20, 2021
 
 Stanley Eichelbaum
 San Francisco Examiner
 The enjoyment in the film comes from the characters, and the actors as they developed them.
 
 April 20, 2021
 
 Susan White
 Austin American-Statesman
 [The Sugarland Express] has a certain cinematic knack, but is all effect and no real humanity, all manipulation and splash, and no attempt at honest insight.
 
 July 28, 2020
 
 John Simon
 Esquire Magazine
 It is a decent road movie, which falls for the most trivial melodramatic exposition that Spielberg uses to synthesize the meaning of sacrifice from the perspective of the American family. [Full review in Spanish]
 
 July 15, 2020 | Rating: 6/10
 
 Yasser Medina
 Cinemaficionados
 Spielberg is a talented director who knows how to dazzle with fancy filmwork. His cast is an attractive one. The problem here is the script.
 
 December 16, 2019
 
 Dick Lochte
 Los Angeles Free Press
 A brilliant film from the young Steven Spielberg who was just beginning his career. [Full Review in Spanish]
 
 August 14, 2019
 
 Ángel S. Harguindey
 El Pais (Spain)…

 

Plot
Lou-Jean, a blonde woman, tells her husband, who is imprisoned, to escape. They plan to kidnap their own child, who was placed with foster parents. The escape is partly successful, they take a hostage, who is a policeman and are pursued through to Texas…
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
The Sugarland Express features Goldie Hawn in the lead role of Lou-Jean Poplin.
 

 
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Production Company(ies)
20th Century Studios
 
Distributor
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox
 
Release Type
Theatrical
 
Filming Location(s)

 
MPAA / Certificate
PG
 
Year of Release
1966
 

 
Genre(s)
Sci-fi
 
Keyword(s)
starring Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O’Brien, Donald Pleasence, Arthur O’Connell, William Redfield, directed by Richard Fleischer, written by Jerome Bixby, Otto Klement, David Duncan, Harry Kleiner, produced by Saul David, sci-fi, box office performance, budget, reviewed by Peter John Dyer, Variety Staff, Dave Kehr, Bosley Crowther, Steven D Greydanus, Eddie Harrison, Sean Axmaker, Mike Massie, David Hogan, Matt Brunson, Paul Chambers, James Plath, PG rating, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox, Mono sound mix, shrinking humans, communist Russia, CIA, blood clot, nuclear submarine, miniaturization, special effects, imaginative journey, inner space, scuba diving surgeons, white blood cells, lungs, heart, brain, Proteus, laser gun, espionage, warfare, traitor, anti-bodies, tight costume, slow build up, suspense, original, out of date, realistic, creepy, interesting, boring, escapist fantasy, obstacles, audience reviews, critic reviews, Fresh Kernels
 

Cast & Crew

Stephen Boyd

Raquel Welch

Edmond O’Brien

Donald Pleasence

Arthur O’Connell

Grant

Cora Peterson

General Carter

Dr. Michaels

Colonel Donald Reid

Stephen Boyd – Grant
Raquel Welch – Cora Peterson
Edmond O’Brien – General Carter
Donald Pleasence – Dr. Michaels
Arthur O’Connell – Colonel Donald Reid
William Redfield – Captain Bill Owens
Director – Richard Fleischer
Producer – Saul David
Writers – Jerome Bixby, Otto Klement, David Duncan, Harry Kleiner

 

Richard Fleischer

Jerome Bixby

Saul David

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Richard Fleischer
 
Writer(s)
Jerome Bixby, Otto Klement, David Duncan, Harry Kleiner
 
Producer(s)
Saul David

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
NA
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

Peter John Dyer

Variety Staff

Dave Kehr

Bosley Crowther

Steven D. Greydanus

Sight & Sound

Variety

Chicago Reader

New York Times

Decent Films

FANTASTIC VOYAGE
 All Critics (35) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (32) | Rotten (3)
 Technically, the film is only too obviously under all kinds of strain, as if trying to live up to a budget which it never wanted in the first place.
 
 April 2, 2020
 
 Peter John Dyer
 Sight & Sound
 TOP CRITIC
 The lavish production, boasting some brilliant special effects and superior creative efforts, is an entertaining, enlightening excursion through inner space — the body of a man.
 
 June 4, 2007
 
 Variety Staff
 Variety
 TOP CRITIC
 This special effects extravaganza from 1966 has proved surprisingly enduring, despite a technical quality crude by contemporary standards; perhaps it’s the screwball poetry of the plot.
 
 June 4, 2007
 
 Dave Kehr
 Chicago Reader
 TOP CRITIC
 All I can tell you is it is quite a trip.
 
 May 9, 2005 | Rating: 4/5
 
 Bosley Crowther
 New York Times
 TOP CRITIC
 A landmark of 1960s sci-fi… remains compelling entertainment despite dated special effects, deliberate pacing, and indifferent dialogue and acting, thanks in part to the genuine wonder it brings to its premise.
 
 September 12, 2003 | Rating: B+
 
 Steven D. Greydanus
 Decent Films
 TOP CRITIC
 …even if the process work is poor by today’s standards, this voyage still seems fantastic today…
 
 March 9, 2023 | Rating: 4/5
 
 Eddie Harrison
 film-authority.com
 The science is shaky at best but the imaginative spectacle is marvelous: scuba diving surgeons battle white blood cells, tap the lungs to replenish the oxygen supply, and shoot the aorta like daredevil surfers.
 
 March 4, 2023
 
 Sean Axmaker
 Stream on Demand
 A nonstop adventure of sizable proportions.
 
 August 24, 2020 | Rating: 8/10
 
 Mike Massie
 Gone With The Twins
 Ignoring the painfully slow first third, the rest of the film is an enjoyable, basic sci-fi adventure. It won’t wow you, but it will entertain you.
 
 February 7, 2019 | Rating: 3/5
 
 David Hogan
 hoganreviews.co.uk
 With such titles as 2001: A Space Odyssey and Planet of the Apes, the 1960s proved to be a particularly rich decade for science fiction cinema, and Fantastic Voyage stands as one of the period’s most imaginative efforts.
 
 October 31, 2013 | Rating: 3.5/4
 
 Matt Brunson
 Creative Loafing
 “Fantastic Voyage” is a fun adventure with some incredible sets representing the inside of the human body. What it lacks in reality is made up by beauty and skill.
 
 October 14, 2013 | Rating: B
 
 Paul Chambers
 Movie Chambers
 Not be as suspenseful as it once was, because we’ve seen many shots of the body’s interior and we no longer have the undercurrents of the Cold War that made life itself an edge-of-the-seat affair. But it’s still a fun sci-fi excursion.
 
 October 11, 2013 | Rating: 7/10
 
 James Plath
 Movie Metropolis…

 

Plot
A team of Americans in a nuclear submarine are shrunk and injected into a scientist’s body to fix a blood clot in his brain before the miniaturization wears off in Fantastic Voyage.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
Fresh Kernels doesn’t have anything goofy or funny or odd to say about the film Fantastic Voyage.
 

 
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