Mac and Me Movie Review
Heavy backing by McDonalds created a merchandising opportunity that turns into a subplot-for-subplot ripoff of E.T.
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Mad Doctor of Blood Island Movie Review
The second of the Philippine-made Blood Island Trilogy.
Mad Max Movie Review
First entry in the post-nuclear supercharged George Miller-directed trilogy which features Mel Gibson as the gung-ho super-cop Max. Leather-punk rebel bikers have nothing better to do than roam the desolate wasteland, chasing and being chased by police who are guarding the remnants of civilization. When his best-buddy fellow cop is killed, Max calls it quits and takes off cross country with the fa…
Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome Movie Review
Third and final episode in the Mad Max trilogy has Max (Mel Gibson) drifting into a nasty methane-fueled Bartertown (pig slop abounds) ruled by Auntie Entity (Tina Turner), an evil over-sexed dominatrix type lookin’ for love and more power from Max. Disputes are settled in the Thunderdome, gladiator style, and Max has a go-at-it with the Blaster, an…
Magic Serpent Movie Review
A fantasy set in medieval Japan about an abducted prince who must regain his throne from a treacherous sorcerer.
Making Contact Movie Review
Oddball German production is one long tribute/ripoff of the imagery of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg.
Making Mr. Right Movie Review
Despite an inspired performance from Ann Magnuson as an “image consultant,” Susan Seidelman's off-beat satire is never as funny or as enjoyable as it ought to be.
A Man Called Rage Movie Review
Rage is the only man capable of safely escorting a group of pioneers through a nuclear wasteland infested with mutants and cannibals.
The Man from Atlantis Movie Review
Patrick Duffy stars as the water-breathing alien who emerges from his undersea home, the Lost City of Atlantis.
Man Made Monster Movie Review
Lon Chaney stars as carnival performer “Dynamo” Dan McCormick, whose act has caused Dan to build up an immunity to electrical charges.
The Man They Could Not Hang Movie Review
A good doctor tinkering with artificial hearts is caught by police while experimenting on a willing student.
The Man Who Fell to Earth Movie Review
Enigmatic, visionary cult pic about a man from another planet (David Bowie, in a bit of typecasting) who ventures to Earth in hopes of finding water to save his drought-stricken planet.
The Manchurian Candidate Movie Review
Perhaps the best political thriller of the 1960s is still sharp and shocking today, and tons of fun to watch. Tells the story of an American Korean War vet who suspects that he and his platoon may have been brainwashed during the war, with his highly decorated, heroic friend programmed by commies to be an operational assassin. The film was years ahead of its time in the amount of visual informatio…
Mandroid Movie Review
An uneasy coalition of East- and West-Bloc scientists use a mighty remote-controlled robot, Mandroid, to handle Supercon, a powerful new element they've discovered.
The Manhattan Project Movie Review
For a science fair, a high-school genius builds a functional nuclear bomb, complete with plutonium swiped from a government lab, and a manhunt (or kidhunt) begins.
Manhunt of Mystery Island Movie Review
Serial about the super-powered Captain Mephisto.
Maniac Warriors Movie Review
A nuclear apocalypse has caused some strange changes in the population – and not for the better.
The Manster Movie Review
Another masterpiece from the director who brought us Monster from Green Hell. An American journalist (Peter Dyneley) is sent to interview an eccentric scientist in Japan. Unfortunately, his host's work is not likely to receive the Nobel Peace Prize; his former wife is now a gibbering monster locked in a cage and he had to shoot a former patient after the poor guy went ape …
Marooned Movie Review
Three-man team of American astronauts are stranded in orbit 200 miles above Earth when their ship engines fail, but it's a deadly 200 miles if Yankee ingenuity cannot launch a rescue mission in time.
Mars Needs Women Movie Review
So, who doesn't? From the director of Zontar, the Thing from Venus comes one of the classic golden turkeys of all time.
The Martian Chronicles: Part 1 Movie Review
Hollywood had long planned to film Ray Bradbury's 1950 collection of interlinked vignettes about mankind's exploration and tentative conquest of the planet Mars, but this limping network TV miniseries (marketed on tape as three separate 90-minute episodes) is a disappointment, with flimsy f/x, weak dialogue, and very sparse doses of Bradbury's trademark ly…
The Martian Chronicles: Part 2 Movie Review
Middle installment of the weak network TV miniseries based on Ray Bradbury's book.
The Martian Chronicles: Part 3 Movie Review
Subtitled “The Martians,” this final chapter of the Ray Bradbury adaptation manages to pull various story threads together, but purists will still simmer at the liberties taken with a classic book – like casting luscious Bernadette Peters as a character who on paper was grossly fat and unattractive.
TV on Tape: Max Headroom Movie Review
In 1984 Britain's Channel 4 wanted to create an innovative music video/interview program and came up with the idea of TV's first cyberpunk, with a computer-generated head-with-an-attitude as its host. A pilot, “Rebus: The Max Headroom Story,” explained the character's background; although computer graphics were heavily featured, “Max” was not…
Martians Go Home! Movie Review
Joke-loving Martians come to Earth and pester a nerdy composer.
The Mask of Fu Manchu Movie Review
The original, and many feel the best Fu Manchu movie. The evil Dr. Fu (played here by Boris Karloff) and his equally evil daughter (Myrna Loy) set out to capture the scimitar and golden mask of Genghis Khan. With them (and the help of a somewhat more up-to-date death ray) they will be able to destroy the white race and rule the world. Although Scotland Yar…
Master of the World Movie Review
This charming aerial version of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is actually based on two Jules Verne novels, Clipper of the Clouds (known in America as Robur the Conqueror), and Master of the World.
Masters of the Universe Movie Review
A big-budget live-action version of the cartoon character's adventures, with He-Man battling Skeletor for the sake of the universe.
Meet the Hollowheads Movie Review
Futuristic sitcom-style family have Dad's boss over for dinner in hopes of securing that promotion that he so richly deserves.
Megaforce Movie Review
Futuristic thriller directed by stuntman Hal Needham follows the adventures of the military task force, Megaforce, on its mission to save a small democratic nation from attack.
Megaville Movie Review
Unfairly ignored cyberpunk noir, set in an Orwellian not-too-distant future.
Memoirs of an Invisible Man Movie Review
Nick Halloway (Chevy Chase), a slick and shallow stock analyst, is rendered invisible by a freak accident.
Mesa of Lost Women Movie Review
A madder-than-usual mad scientist, played by none other than Addams Family regular Jackie “Uncle Fester” Coogan, cloisters himself on a remote Mexican mesa.
Messengers of Destiny Movie Review
UFOlogists know the significance of July 11, 1991.
Metallica Movie Review
Alien warmongers endeavor to conquer Earth and scientists try to stop them.
Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared Syn Movie Review
The last time we saw Lemuria it was a legendary continent between Australia and Africa, populated by creatures of myth and Ray Harryhausen's Sinbad. Well, it didn't do the Atlantean sink thing, it became a stark desert island planet, controlled by the evil intergalactic magician Jared Syn. Syn and his army of Cyclops have created deadly forbidden zones, killing and enslaving for the …
Metamorphosis Movie Review
Italian-made familiarity about a novice scientist using himself as the guinea pig for his anti-aging experiments (injecting in the eyeball, for your viewing pleasure).
Meteor Movie Review
American and Soviet scientists attempt to save the Earth from a fast-approaching barrage of meteors from space (with their big daddy on its way) in this disaster dud.
The Meteor Man Movie Review
Robert Townsend is a school teacher who becomes a reluctant superhero after being socked in the gut by a meteor.
Meteor Monster Movie Review
A young boy is hit by a meteor and grows up to be a raving, hair-covered maniac.
Metropolis Movie Review
Classic meditation on technology and mass mentality, about the mechanized society of 2000 A.D. where workers are trudging drones on constant duty underground, as upper classes dwell in splendor and decadence on the surface. Then the son of an elite leader falls for a prominent worker chick. Disapproving dad commissions an evil android duplicate of the girl to incite the workers into doomed revolt.…
Midnight Movie Massacre Movie Review
Retro splatterama has really gross alien land outside a movie theater in 1956, and the really weird movie patrons try to terminate it.
Mighty Joe Young Movie Review
Tongue-in-cheek King Kong variation features giant ape brought to civilization and exploited in a nightclub act, whereupon things get darned ugly.
Millenium Movie Review
A Federal Aviation Agency investigator finds temporal anomalies at plane crashes and is haunted by mystery woman Cheryl Ladd. It seems Earth's people 1,000 years from now are sterile and rotting. To keep humanity alive they send time-travel squads back to yank fresh, untainted people off doomed airliners, thus skirting apocalyptic time paradoxes – until Kris Kristofferson and Daniel …
Mind Snatchers Movie Review
An American G.I. becomes involved in U.S.
Hook into the Happiness System… Movie Review
“S tupidity…chao…cruelty…pain…reality, a failure.
Mindwarp Movie Review
When Judy (Marta Alicia) rebels against the Sysop and goes offline from the “The Happiness System” (brought to us by Infinisynth), she actually uses the line “There's no place like home” when she teams up with Stover (Bruce Campbell) to battle the mutant monsters (who all look like the Toxic Avenger but with a lot …
Misfits of Science Movie Review
A seriously uninspired pilot for an even worse ‘80s television series about a group of teens with standard-issue “super-powers” who fight to save the world.
Missile to the Moon Movie Review
First expedition to the moon encounters not acres of dead rock but a race of gorgeous women in lingerie and high heels. Take one cheap, silly sci-fi groaner, then remove the name stars and the 3-D effects, and there you have it – a bad but entertaining remake of Cat Women of the Moon, featuring a bevy of beauty contest winners from New Hampshire to Yugoslavia. Cast is not quite as accomplis…
Mission Mars Movie Review
American astronauts Darren McGavin and Nick Adams, on a mission to the red planet, discover the bodies of two cosmonauts floating in space.
Mission Stardust Movie Review
An internationally produced but thoroughly unambitious adaptation of the once-popular Perry Rhodan sci-fi serial, in which Rhodan and his team bring ill aliens back to Earth and defend them against evil spies.
Mistress of the World Movie Review
A scientist, aided by Swedish Intelligence agent Ventura, works to protect his gravity-altering invention from Chinese agents.
Modern Problems Movie Review
Chevy gets splashed with nuclear waste and develops some rather tasteless telekinetic powers, including the ability to vacuum up cocaine through his nostrils like a Hoover.
The Mole People Movie Review
A really bad ‘50s creature feature which finds two archeologists accidentally discovering an underground civilization of albinos who shun all forms of light.
Mom and Dad Save the World Movie Review
Planet Spengo, populated entirely by idiots, plans to destroy Earth.
Monkey Boy Movie Review
Decent sci-fi horror from Britain, about a cunning human-ape hybrid that escapes from a genetics lab after massacring the staff.
Monolith Movie Review
A coed team of squabbling LAPD officers check out a senseless murder and learn that a secret government agency has an ancient, captured UFO in their vaults.
The Monolith Monsters Movie Review
Despite the title and goofy premise (killer rocks), this is one of the more enjoyable ‘50s B-movies.
Monster a Go-Go! Movie Review
A team of go-go dancers battle a ten-foot monster from outer space who's actually a mutated astronaut.
Monster from Green Hell Movie Review
An experimental rocket containing radiation-contaminated wasps crashes in Africa, making giant killer wasps that run amok.
Monster from the Ocean Floor Movie Review
Roger Corman's first production was shot in six days for $12,000. The comely Anne Kimball stars as a tourist vacationing in a Mexican village that is being terrorized by an octopustype sea monster (actually, a puppet shot from behind a cloudy fishtank – but no matter, you don't get to see it until the end of the movie). Stuart Wade costars as a marine biol…
The Monster Maker Movie Review
A low-budget monster-fest with an interesting concept: a deranged scientist (J.
The Monster of Piedras Blancas Movie Review
During a seaside festival, two fisherman are killed by a bloodthirsty oceanic critter with no respect for holidays.
Monster on the Campus Movie Review
A forerunner to Animal House? One of Jack Arnold's more mediocre science-fiction thrillers is a workaday Jekyll-and-Hyde story about a college professor who turns into a hairy Neanderthal guy when he accidentally smokes (!) the blood of a prehistoric fish.
The Monster that Challenged the World Movie Review
Huge, ancient eggs are discovered in the Salton Sea and eventually hatch into killer, crustaceous caterpillars.
Moon (44) Movie Review
One of German filmmaker Roland Emmerich's Hollywood-style B movies before he had a mainstream commercial hit with Stargate.
Moon Pilot Movie Review
First astronaut scheduled to orbit the moon is followed prior to the launch by an enticing mystery woman.
Moontrap Movie Review
USS Enterprise icon Walter Koenig, reputedly the member of the Classic ‘Trek’ cast most seriously into sf, takes a rare lead role here as an Apollo astronaut who returns to the moon to investigate evidence of ancient alien habitations.
Mosquito Movie Review
An alien spaceship crashlands on earth and a hungry mosquito snacks on one of the dead pilots.
Mothra Movie Review
Classic Japanese monster shenanigans about an enraged giant caterpillar that invades Tokyo while searching for the Alilenas, a pair of tiny twin princesses who've been kidnapped by an evil nightclub owner in the pursuit of big profits.
Murder by Moonlight Movie Review
Rival agents investigate a mysterious murder in a prosperous mining colony on the moon.
Murder in Space Movie Review
Nine multinational astronauts are stranded aboard a space station when they discover one of them is a murderer.
Mutant Hunt Movie Review
NYC-made direct-to-video production about manlike robots gone haywire on a sexual stimulant called Euphoron.
Mutant on the Bounty Movie Review
Jazz musician, lost in space as a beam of light for 23 years, is materialized aboard a spaceship alive but with a face that looks like he's been “bobbing for french fries.” As if that's not enough (and it isn't), the motley crew then must fight a couple of thugs who are trying to steal a vial of serum.
Mutant Species Movie Review
Soldier is accidentally exposed to altered DNA and begins to mutate into a remorseless and terrifying killer.
Mutator Movie Review
A corporation makes a tiny genetic mistake and winds up creating a new life form – brawny, humanoid pussycats who prey on humans.
My Stepmother Is an Alien Movie Review
Eccentric physicist Steve Mills (Dan Aykroyd) sends a beam out to a galaxy far, far away and gets a visit from the beautiful and sexy (although from some angles she does look like Mick Jagger) Celeste (Kim Basinger). Fortunately for the plot, and the ensuing slapstick comedy, this gorgeous blonde is an alien with a mission: seduce the recently widowed Stev…
The Mysterians Movie Review
Caped aliens land their saucers on Earth and release the giant death-ray-shooting robot bird Mogella, hoping to find some fresh tail to replenish their race after the home planet was destroyed by a nuclear explosion.
Mysterious Doctor Satan Movie Review
This 15-episode chapter play is the second and last Republic serial to give the actor playing the villain top billing, and rightly so, for Edward (Eduardo) Ciannelli, best known for his role as a crazed high priest in the 1939 Gunga Din, is quite wonderful as the snarling madman planning to conquer the world with an army of robots (although Doctor Satan only manages to get one…
Mysterious Island Movie Review
Solid and often-overlooked adventure combines the talents of three proven crowd-pleasers – author Jules Verne, special effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen, and composer Bernard Herrmann – each at the top of his game.
Mysterious Two Movie Review
Eerie atmosphere is everything in this network TV movie about a beatific, middle-aged couple called He and She, who entice a cult-like following of plain folks toward a desert rendezvous point where the space brothers will supposedly take them to a cosmic paradise.
TV on Tape: Mystery Science Theater 3000 Movie Review
Mystery Science Theater 3000 may well be the funniest sci-fi show on cable television. Weathering some major cast and crew changes, it maintained its originality for several years and moved from the small screen to home video to motion picture theatres. “MST3K,’’ as it's abbreviated by fans, was created in 1988 at a small UHF station in Minneapolis, MN, by comedian Joel…