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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan **** (1982, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Ricardo Montalban, Paul Winfield, Kirstie Alley) – Classic Movie Review 1919

The whole old crew of the USS Starship Enterprise are all aboard for director Nicholas Meyer’s tighter, tauter and generally much improved 1982 first sequel to 1979’s Star Trek: The Motion Picture. This time Ricardo […]

Dec, 06

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

The Chronicles of Riddick ** (2004, Vin Diesel, Judi Dench, Colm Feore, Thandie Newton, Karl Urban, Alexa Davalos, Linus Roache, Keith David) – Classic Movie Review 1624

Vin Diesel again stars as Riddick in writer-director David N Twohy’s great-looking, extremely expensive and highly ambitious but sadly failed 2004 sequel to 2000’s hit sci-fi thriller Pitch Black, based again on the characters by Jim and Ken […]

Sep, 02

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 […]

Jul, 11

Soldier **** (1998, Kurt Russell, Jason Scott Lee, Connie Nielsen, Jason Isaacs, Michael Chiklis, Gary Busey, Sean Pertwee) – Classic Movie Review 1174

Director Paul W S Anderson’s superior and intelligent 1998 futuristic sci-fi action movie stars Kurt Russell as Todd 3465, a cyborg sergeant whose superiors dump him on a desolate planet, convinced that he is dead. But […]

May, 03

K-Pax 2001 (Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges) – Classic Film Review 1107

Director Iain Softley’s 2001 film stars Kevin Spacey, who is ideal as Prot, a mysterious, other-worldly patient in a New York psychiatric hospital who claims to be an alien from the planet K-Pax. What’s odder […]

Apr, 18

Star Trek ***** (2009, Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg, Leonard Nimoy, Anton Yelchin, John Cho, Zoe Saldana) – Classic Movie Review 807

Star Trek makes a triumphant return in director J J Abrams’s breathtaking 2009 reboot, getting away with all its decisions – except two. Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto are brilliant as the young Kirk and […]

Feb, 08

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