Many of the best sci-fi movies of the 1950s were inspired by books. Some classic novels were reinterpreted to address the ...

The 1950s were a great time for sci-fi movies, with many iconic releases that have not lost any of their mind-blowing powers when revisited today.

Sci-fi movies boomed in the 1950s, with the likes of The Fly and The Blob, then became even bigger in the 60s with 2001: A Space Odyssey and Farenheit 451.

Of that celebrated group of 1950s sci-fi movies, "Forbidden Planet" also remains the only one that has mercifully not received a Tinseltown reboot, but that's all about to change with recent news ...

This kind of faux-1950s sci-fi is a mishmash of half-remembered styles and aesthetics and, somewhat hilariously, doesn’t fully capture just how weird the real 1950s Buck Rogers actually was.