Is there anything more worth celebrating than B-movies of the 1950s? The aliens, the UFOs on strings, the rubber-suited monsters. There’s nothing else like it in cinema, and the genre is back in the spotlight with this week’s releases.

Klaatu Barata Rejects! Those of you in Columbus who want to see if we die and if the Earth survives, here’s how you can see an advance IMAX screening of The Day the Earth Stood Still on Thursday, December 11, free of charge.

On the inaugural edition of The Stretch, I clear the air about The Day the Earth Stood Still and its anti-Communist message.