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Twelve Monkeys [12 Monkeys] ***** (1995, Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt, Frank Gorshin, Christopher Plummer, Jon Seda) – Classic Movie Review 689

‘Between the past and the future, sanity and madness, dreams and reality lies the mystery of the Twelve Monkeys.’ Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe and Brad Pitt kick up a storm in director Terry Gilliam’s dazzling-looking, […]

Jan, 18

Red Planet **** (2000, Val Kilmer, Carrie-Anne Moss, Tom Sizemore, Simon Baker, Benjamin Bratt, Terence Stamp) – Classic Movie Review 707

The special effects are out of this world in director Anthony Hoffman’s gripping Aussie-made 2001 sci-fi thriller, which provides an entertaining visual treat with its splendidly realised vision of Mars in the future. Mission commander […]

Jan, 17

The Time Machine **** (1960, Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieux) – Classic Movie Review 661

After successfully producing the 1953 version of H G Wells’s novel The War of the Worlds, George Pal profitably returns to the great author’s work to direct this entertaining and imaginative movie from Wells’s other […]

Jan, 10

Starship Troopers **** (1997, Casper Van Dien, Denise Richards, Dina Meyer) – Classic Movie Review 494

Director Paul Verhoeven’s 1997 movie is an exciting, vibrant and gruesomely violent sci-fi satire spectacular, in which the Earth is threatened by an enemy from Outer Space – whole massive regiments of giant insects. Idealistic […]

Dec, 10

Minority Report **** (2002, Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton) – Classic Movie Review 484

Tom Cruise teams up with director Steven Spielberg in 2002 to play a ‘precognitive’ cop of the future, Detective John Anderton, who can predict murders and arrest the killers before they act. But then he’s […]

Dec, 07

Cloud Atlas­ ***½ (2012, Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant, Jim Broadbent, Susan Sarandon, Ben Whishaw, Jim Sturgess) – Movie Review

‘Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb we are bound to others.’ Some big guns come out firing on as many cylinders as they know how to access in order to turn […]

Oct, 09

Terminator Salvation *** (2009, Christian Bale, Sam Worthington) – Classic Movie Review 1444

It’s possible that teenage boys could find plenty to thrill over in this 2009 action sci-fi blockbuster. It’s virtues are that it’s entirely solid and seamless. But older audiences may find it all a bit soulless and predictable. […]

Sep, 20

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