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Earth Girls Are Easy *** (1988, Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum, Jim Carrey) – Classic Movie Review 9241

Director Julien Temple’s 1988 Earth Girls Are Easy stars Geena Davis as scatty Southern California manicurist Valerie Dale, who has a close encounter with three hairy extra-terrestrials who crash-land in her swimming pool, and in […]

Jan, 08

Escape from the Planet of the Apes *** (1971, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Bradford Dillman, Ricardo Montalban, Natalie Trundy, Sal Mineo, Eric Braeden) – Classic Movie Review 5751

Director Don Taylor’s 1971 Sci-Fi action thriller is the welcome part three in the original Ape saga, in which educated monkeys Cornelius (Roddy McDowall) and Zira (Kim Hunter) flee in a capsule from the holocaust of part […]

Jul, 13

Passengers *** (2016, Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt, Michael Sheen, Laurence Fishburne) – Movie Review

Chris Pratt stars as Jim Preston, a space engineer travelling on a 120-year voyage to the distant planet of Homestead Colony on the Starship Avalon, when there is a malfunction and his hibernation pod opens prematurely 90 […]

Dec, 28

Arrival **** (2016, Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg) – Movie Review

Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner star as linguists who are recruited by the US military, led by Forest Whitaker’s bossy Colonel Weber, to assist in translating communications with aliens who have touched down in mysterious spacecraft at […]

Oct, 11

Sphere *** (1998, Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, Samuel L Jackson, Peter Coyote, Liev Schreiber, Queen Latifah) – Classic Movie Review 4050

Director Barry Levinson’s 1998 movie of the Michael Crichton novel is a thoughtful and intelligent deep-sea sci-fi saga, in which navy divers discover an object half-a-mile long – a spaceship – under 300 years’ worth of coral growth 1000 […]

Jul, 19

The Day the Earth Stood Still ***** (1951, Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe, Sam Jaffe, Hugh Marlowe) – Classic Movie Review 3648

Director Robert Wise’s classic 1951 sci-fi movie The Day the Earth Stood Still stars Michael Rennie as a humanoid alien visitor who arrives on planet Earth in Washington from space to tell us Earthlings that […]

May, 02

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

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