By the time he produced “Saturn 3,” Sir Lew Grade had become known as Sir Low Grade. What started off as great aspirations quickly became financial and critical embarrassments at the box office. “Saturn 3” was an attempt to duplicate the success of recent Sci-Fi efforts like “Alien,” “Logan’s Run” and “Star Wars.” Instead, “Saturn 3” emerged as a dubious biblical parable about the Garden of Eden. Read the rest of this entry »

The logistics of getting a whole baseball stadium to do the wave are staggering. Imagine trying to get the whole Eastern seaboard of the United States to do the wave simultaneously. That’s the task of director Mimi Leder, who capably brings the first of this season’s two comet movies to the big screen. “Deep Impact” takes a human look at an extinction level event, the threat of a comet the size of Manhattan colliding with Earth. Read the rest of this entry »