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Mission: Impossible II *** (2000, Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott, Thandie Newton) – Classic Movie Review 1290

Director John Woo’s costly (£125million) 2000 sequel to the smash-hit 1996 original sees Tom Cruise return as IMF secret agent Ethan Hunt, who delivers more flashy, scrappy high-octane action in this second brain-in-neutral, edge-of-seat blockbuster. […]

Jun, 04

The Abominable Snowman *** (1957, Peter Cushing, Forrest Tucker, Maureen Connell, Richard Wattis, Robert Brown) – Classic Movie Review 1,267

Writer Nigel Kneale turns his 1955 BBC TV play The Creature into the intriguing, intelligently written, decently acted 1957 Hammer horror film The Abominable Snowman, with Peter Cushing reprising his star TV role.  Writer Nigel […]

May, 31

Transcendence ** (2014, Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall, Cillian Murphy, Paul Bettany, Kate Mara, Cole Hauser, Morgan Freeman, Clifton Collins Jr) – Movie Review

Johnny Depp stars as Berkeley genius scientist Dr Will Caster who is on the verge of creating an omniscient, sentient A.I. machine. But a rogue anti-technology terrorist group fights to stop him and they put him […]

Apr, 24

Contact **** (1997, Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Skerritt, David Morse, William Fichtner, James Woods, John Hurt) – Classic Movie Review 1108

‘Look, all I’m asking is for you to just have the tiniest bit of vision.’ Co-producer/director Robert Zemeckis’s 1997 film stars Jodie Foster, who plays Dr Ellie Arroway, a young, driven astronomer who receives humankind’s […]

Apr, 18

Glen or Glenda (1953, Bela Lugosi, Ed Wood, Timothy Farrell, Dolores Fuller) – So Bad It’s Good Movie 12

Edward D Wood Jr, the notorious director of the legendarily awful Plan 9 from Outer Space (1956), comes up with a double so-bad-it’s-good whammy with his equally hysterically inept 1953 melodrama about transvestism, Glen or […]

Mar, 27

The Island of Dr Moreau (1977, Burt Lancaster) – Classic Film Review 906

Burt Lancaster stars in 1977 as mad scientist Dr Paul Moreau who creates human-animal hybrids in a gripping, atmospheric and lavish remake of the 1933 film The Island of Lost Souls with Charles Laughton, from the […]

Mar, 12

Things to Come **** (1936, Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman, Ralph Richardson, Cedric Hardwicke) – Classic Movie Review 905

In a future 1940, a 30-year-long global war and a black death plague destroys Everytown. Then in 1970, a band of scientists rebuild it into a great futuristic city. And by 2036, the first pair […]

Mar, 12

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