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Species II ** (1998, Natasha Henstridge, Michael Madsen, Marg Helgenberger, Mykelti Williamson, James Cromwell, Justin Lazard, George Dzundza) – Classic Movie Review 2567
The 1998 sci-fi horror film Species II brings back Michael Madsen and Marg Helgenberger, and Natasha Henstridge returns as a new character. It is misjudged and wastes an OK premise, but has plus points in […]
Heavens Above! **** (1963, Peter Sellers, Cecil Parker, Ian Carmichael, Isabel Jeans) – Classic Movie Review 1859
Malcolm Muggeridge came up with the idea for the Boulting Brothers’ thoughtful and entertaining 1963 satirical comedy film Heavens Above! Peter Sellers tickles the funny bone even in a largely serious performance as the Rev […]
The Right Stuff ***** (1983, Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Dennis Quaid) – Classic Movie Review 1852
Writer-director Philip Kaufman’s exhilarating, four Oscar-winning, three-hour-plus 1983 space epic is a movie with all the right stuff itself. There are two storylines. One is the début of America’s astronauts and the original Mercury 7 […]
Planet of the Apes ***** (1968, Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter) – Classic Movie Review 1424
Based on Pierre Boulle’s 1963 French novel Monkey Planet (La Planète des singes) , director Franklin J Schaffner’s awesome 1968 sci-fi adventure gives Charlton Heston one of his most memorable roles as George Taylor, an astronaut […]
Planet of the Apes *** (2001, Mark Wahlberg, Tim Roth, Helena Bonham Carter) – Classic Movie Review 1414
In 2001, everyone was going bananas for director Tim Burton’s ape-tising remake of the 1967 movie. Mark Wahlberg takes on Charlton Heston’s old role as US Air Force astronaut Captain Leo Davidson who, chasing a chimp […]
Deep Impact *** (1998, Elijah Wood, Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni, Vanessa Redgrave, Morgan Freeman, Maximilian Schell, James Cromwell, Ron Eldard, Jon Favreau) – Classic Movie Review 1104
Director Mimi Leder’s feisty, old-style apocalyptic 1998 disaster movie stars Elijah Wood as a keen young amateur astrologer who spots an unidentified star, and soon it is all stations red alert as a massive comet […]
Armageddon *** (1998, Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler) – Classic Movie Review 1098
In a plot very similar to the simultaneously made Deep Impact, oil-riggers Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck and co are recruited to head for space to drill a hole and place a bomb to explode a […]