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Solaris ***½ (2002, George Clooney, Natascha McElhone, Viola Davis, Jeremy Davies, Ulrich Tukur) – Classic Movie Review 4208

George Clooney acts his socks off as civilian psychiatrist Dr Chris Kelvin, a shrink who sets off to investigate the mystery deaths of scientists on a cut-off space station at the video request of his friend Dr […]

Aug, 20

I Married a Monster from Outer Space *** (1958, Tom Tryon, Gloria Talbott, Peter Baldwin, Ty Hardin) – Classic Movie Review 3696

Aliens are employing Bill Farrell (Tom Tryon) to control the Earth in producer-director Gene Fowler Jnr’s cheap and cheerful 1958 sci-fi cult movie, made for just $175,000 by Paramount. Poor Marge (Gloria Talbott) finds that being Tryon’s new […]

May, 11

Forbidden Planet ***** (1956, Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen) – Classic Movie Review 2555

Director Fred McLeod Wilcox’s 1956 sci-fi version of Shakespeare’s The Tempest is a genre classic, haunting and beautiful looking, gaining an immense amount of other-worldly mood and atmosphere from being all artificially filmed in the […]

Jun, 04

Highlander 2: The Quickening *** (1990, Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Virginia Madsen, Michael Ironside) – Classic Movie Review 2332

Director Russell Mulcahy’s likeable and agreeable enough 1990 sequel unfortunately lacks the kind of magic of his 1986 hit, so it must be counted a disappointment. With nowhere to go after the first film, it’s […]

Mar, 30

Total Recall ****½ (1990, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone, Ronny Cox, Michael Ironside) – Classic Movie Review 2028

Both director Paul Verhoeven and his star Arnold Schwarzenegger are on or very near their best form for this exhilarating 1990 science-fiction thriller, a clever mix of bright ideas, involving plot, witty satire and violent […]

Jan, 01

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier *** (1989, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, David Warner, Laurence Luckinbill, George Takei, Walter Koenig) – Classic Movie Review 1922

After director Leonard Nimoy’s jovial Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986), the starship USS Enterprise comes down to Earth with a dullish thud in 1989 as William Shatner takes over the directing helm as […]

Dec, 06

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock *** (1984, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Christopher Lloyd) – Classic Movie Review 1920

Leonard Nimoy takes over the helm as director of the third movie in 1984, in which the starship USS Enterprise is scheduled for scuttling, Bones McCoy (DeForest Kelley) is suffering from a Vulcan mindmeld, the […]

Dec, 06

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