Black Hole

Actors: Maximilian Schell, Robert Forster, Joseph Bottoms, Yvette Mimieux, Anthony Perkins, Ernest Borgnine, Roddy McDowall, Slim Pickens

Rating: 6 out of 10, This has not aged well, a victim of the advance of special effects in the years since it appeared. I get the impression this was done at Disney to capture some of the audience following the initial Star Wars craze, but it missed the boat, or starship I guess. A small spaceship discovers a massive black hole in space haunted by an equally massive spaceship crewed by the typical mad scientist bent on discovering the secrets of the universe, no matter what the cost. One of my childhood crushes, Yvette Mimieux, plays an ESP capable scientist who can commune with a Roddy McDowall voiced floating robot, so there is that. This is one of the movies that is so impressed with its own special effects that it forgets to have characters the audience can invest in. Note to Tony Perkins, when a robot slowly approaches you with a wickedly sharp spinning knife, duck. I loved this movie when it first came out, call it the Mimieux effect, but it now seems more than a little silly.

MVP: Yvette Mimieux, who else, as Dr. Kate McCrae