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Invaders from Mars **** (1953, Helena Carter, Arthur Franz, Jimmy Hunt, Leif Erickson, Hillary Brooke) – Classic Movie Review 2,371

Prominent child star Jimmy Hunt is best known for Invaders from Mars (1953), the very first space invaders film to be shot in colour. Director-designer William Cameron Menzies’s much-loved landmark 1953 sci-fi fantasy favourite film […]

Apr, 08

*batteries not included **** (1987, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Elizabeth Peña, Frank McRae) – Classic Movie Review 2002

Co-writer/director Matthew Robbins’s thoughtful, likeable and appealing, 1987 sci-fi comedy drama stars veteran married couple Hume Cronyn (aged 76) and Jessica Tandy (aged 78) as beleaguered New York City old-timers, diner owner Frank Riley and […]

Dec, 28

Pitch Black **** (2000, Vin Diesel, Cole Hauser, Radha Mitchell, Keith David) – Classic Movie Review 1623

A commercial transport spacecraft crashes, stranding the surviving passengers on a sun-scorched barren planet populated only by a dangerously troublesome alien race of predators. The bloodthirsty creatures come out to feast only by night, but unfortunately for the […]

Sep, 02

Tarzan 3D (2013, Kellan Lutz) – Movie Review

Tarzan 3D is advertised as a new spin on Tarzan, but it doesn’t have a new idea in its head. Instead it recycles all those historic Tarzan clichés we’re so familiar with, along with nods […]

May, 01

The Faculty **** (1998, Elijah Wood, Josh Hartnett, Bebe Neuwirth, Robert Patrick, Jordana Brewster, Clea DuVall, Laura Harris) – Classic Movie Review 650

A hottish young cast spur the cheeky, hip and edgy youth-appeal 1998 sci-fi horror thriller The Faculty from Robert Rodriguez, the director of Desperado and From Dusk Till Dawn, and Kevin Williamson, the writer of […]

Jan, 08

Independence Day **** (1996, Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsch, Robert Loggia, Randy Quaid) – Classic Movie Review 576

‘I don’t think they flew 90 billion light years to start a fight,’ says pilot Captain Steven Hiller (Will Smith) when a huge flying saucer appears over Los Angeles one morning. But he’s wrong, and […]

Dec, 27

District 9 **** (Sharlto Copley, David James, Jason Cope) – Classic Movie Review 253

Director Neill Blomkamp’s 2009 satirical sci-fi action thriller from South Africa was a deserved, surprise worldwide smash-hit. It proves quite a breath of fresh air from the usual Hollywood blockbuster. For a start, it’s nice […]

Sep, 20

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