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Starman ****½ (1984, Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith, Richard Jaeckel) – Classic Movie Review 2043

Director John Carpenter delivers a stupendous, electrifying 1984 adult sci-fi fairy tale that’s tense, touching and thrilling throughout. Bruce A Evans, Raynold Gideon and Dean Reisner’s screenplay follows the story of the titular alien Starman, […]

Jan, 03

Aliens in the Attic *** (2009, Carter Jenkins, Austin Butler, Ashley Tisdale, Robert Hoffman, Tim Meadows, Doris Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 2001

The nice Pearson family head for a summer holiday in Creek Landing, Michigan, but get more than they bargain for when they have TV reception trouble. The teenage son Tom (Carter Jenkins) and his sister […]

Dec, 28

Star Trek: The Motion Picture *** (1979, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols) – Classic Movie Review 1918

Director Robert Wise’s 1979 first Star Trek spinoff movie of the seminal TV series created by Gene Roddenberry is an astonishingly costly and way over–produced film. Though Star Trek: The Motion Picture is a disappointingly […]

Dec, 06

Star Trek: Insurrection *** (1998, Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, F Murray Abraham) – Classic Movie Review 1924

Jonathan Frakes returns as director for the 1998 ninth Star Trek episode, the third movie featuring the Next Generation characters. It is a very pleasantly entertaining episode, a notch up from Frakes’s previous movie, Star […]

Dec, 06

Earth to Echo *** (2014, Teo Halm, Brian ‘Astro’ Bradley, Reese Hartwig) – Movie Review

In director Dave Green’s 2014 ET clone children’s movie, a group of 13-year-old suburban American kids embark on an adventure with a cute stranded alien who needs their help that’s relayed to them a series of bizarre encrypted messages. […]

Jul, 23

Transformers: Age of Extinction *** (2014, Mark Wahlberg, Nicola Peltz, Jack Reynor, T J Miller, Stanley Tucci, Kelsey Grammer) – Movie Review

Transformers 4 is an awesome but soul-less juggernaut of a stonking, barn-storming action thriller, cruelly dumping the nice original cast after 2014’s Transformers: Age of Extinction, and instead randomly employing today’s favourite action star Mark Wahlberg as widowed […]

Jul, 10

The Abyss **** (1989, Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn) – Classic Movie Review 1293

Writer-director James Cameron’s expensive 1989 sci-fi thriller was a very rare box-office flop for him, taking only $90million worldwide. It’s hard to know quite what went wrong. It looks stunning and the trick work is […]

Jun, 05

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