For those of us who were teenage boys when it was released, Tony Scott’s Top Gun (1986) was an inspirational movie that made us all, briefly, want to be fighter pilots. It told the story of a rebellious, slightly childish, young US Navy aviator, in the form of Tom...
Don’t Look Up (2021) has become the must see movie this Christmas…but not everyone likes it. Produced and aired by Netflix, and directed by Adam McKay, it is all the space/geo-disaster movies you have ever seen like When Worlds Collide (1951), Meteor...
William Shatner, the Canadian-born actor who played Captain James T. Kirk in the Star Trek TV and film series, finally got his wish to make it into space. He flew with three others above the “Karman line”, the official 100 km limit that marks space, aboard the...
This writer sometimes likes to list his top five James Bond movies, partly to work out what makes a good one. The list currently runs as follows: 1. You Only Live Twice (1967); 2. The Spy Who Loved Me (1976); 3. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969): 4. Casino...
The recent decision by the FAA not to award “astronaut wings” to suborbital space tourist “passengers” of Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic commercial astronaut carrying operations has caused controversy, not least because many would-be...
An article by Tom Fordy in the Daily Telegraph declared the James Bond space-plotted movie Moonraker (1979) as the most influential of 007’s adventures, both to other movie makers (yes some scenes from it have been stolen by others), but also because its...
