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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 · in Reviews

Star Trek: First Contact *** (1996, Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, James Cromwell) – Classic Movie Review 1925

Director Jonathan Frakes’s 1996 Star Trek 8 is proficient, pacy and painless. The second movie featuring the Next Generation characters, following Star Trek: Generations (1994), it is mildly entertaining yet sometimes a bit of a […]

Dec, 06 · in Reviews

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

Star Trek: Nemesis *** (2002, Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, Tom Hardy, Ron Perlman) – Classic Movie Review 1926

The good news is the Starship Enterprise boldly goes to the new frontier of double numbers with Star Trek movie number ten. The bad news is the writers can’t find a fresh plot or any […]

Dec, 06

In the Mood for Love [Faa yeung nin wa] **** (2000, Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung, Ping Lam Siu, Rebecca Pan) – Classic Movie Review 1915

Tony Leung (Tony Chiu-Wai Leung) stars in In the Mood for Love [Faa yeung nin wa] (2000) as a married newspaper editor, and Maggie Cheung plays a secretary who are drawn together after they both find […]

Dec, 05

The Grandmaster *** (2013, Tony Chiu Wai Leung, Ziyi Zhang, Jin Zhang) – Movie Review

Writer-director Kar Wai Wong films a beautifully crafted, dazzling tribute to the 30s era kung fu martial-arts master Ip Man, the man who trained Bruce Lee. This Oscar-nominated biopic is overflowing with gorgeous cinematography and jaw-dropping […]

Dec, 05

Men, Women & Children *** (Kaitlyn Dever, Rosemarie DeWitt, Ansel Elgort, Jennifer Garner, Adam Sandler) – Movie Review

Talented director Jason (Juno) Reitman’s comedy drama adapts Chad Kultgen’s novel and takes a smart and satirical aim at the lack of real human communication in the digital age. Fair enough, but it’s an easy target and there […]

Dec, 05

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