Yes, yes. A much more obvious choice this time. One might even say bleeding obvious…

Fun fact: deciding which of my embarrassing roster of unaddressed 50s SF films to tackle for this Roundtable took longer than writing this review.

THEM! (1954)

…in which Mankind’s meddling with atomic power comes back to, uh, bite him…

How did it take me so long to get to this movie? The spaghetti western The Great Silence is considered by many to be one of the best efforts of the genre, and I think they’re on to something there.

This may not seem like an obvious choice to some of you, but trust me—this thing has been on my, ahem, “shortlist” of films to review since the silent movie Roundtable of 2008…
 
Overlong film + far too long to ponder it = massively overlong review; sorry!

 
 
WOMAN IN THE MOON (1929)
 
Hard science collides with pulp fiction in Fritz Lang’s last silent film.
 
Working in collaboration with “father of rocketry” Hermann Oberth, Lang succeeds in bringing to the screen a startlingly accurate prediction of mankind’s eventual journey to the moon.
 
Pity about the surrounding material…
 

 
Pssst: Please let me know if the images are too dark: I had a lot of trouble with the contrast in this one.

 Liz Kingsley is the insane genius behind And You Call Yourself a Scientist!

John Wayne temporarily hung up his cowboy hat in the 1970s to ape Clint Eastwood in the tough cop movie McQ, and it worked as well as you can probably imagine.

The horror-comedy Motel Hell manages to mix the two different extremes into a pleasantly satisfying dish.

Despite the talents of the leads, Ben Stiller and George Carlin in Working Tra$h are no Laurel and Hardy… or Abbott and Costello… or Hill and Spencer… or Farley and Spade.. or…

The thriller Ca$h takes an old formula and revives it with some fresh twists to good effect.

Intelligent yet entertaining, Baker’s Hawk is the kind of great family movie that sadly isn’t being made anymore.

While the casting of Richard Harris in a movie about bloody vengeance may seem odd, The Deadly Trackers is evidence to prove that anything is possible… and can work out well.

If you can get by its distasteful premise, The Entity is a horror movie with attributes to appreciate… just not attributes you might be expecting.