Adapted from William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, the film begins with Cameron James (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) – a new student at (the fictional) Padua…
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Disney updated its classic animated tale with this live-action version starring a deliciously over-the-top Glenn Close as the infamous villain Cruella De Vil, the rich…
The year is 2035 and an unknown virus has wiped out most of humanity. The few survivors live in a grim subterranean city beneath Philadelphia. Haunted by…
Trevor Garfield (Samuel L Jackson) is an idealistic, dedicated high school science teacher in Brooklyn. After refusing to give a passing grade to a violent…
It’s New Year’s Eve 1981 in New York’s new wavey Lower East Side, and Monica (Martha Plimpton) is having a party – although it’s already…
An alien called Secundus (Danish bodybuilder Sven-Ole Thorsen) arrives on Earth with a laser gun and asks a woman called Sonia Murray (Marjorie Bransfield), “Are…
The main purpose of this movie is to showcase the Jerry Lewis-style antics of its star, Canadian comic Jim Carrey. He plays an inept but…
Rubber-faced comedian Jim Carrey returned to the screen as the hyperkinetic sleuth from the previous year’s hit Ace Ventura, Pet Detective. Ace’s newest adventure found him…
This delightful follow-up to The Addams Family (1991) is blessed with an even blacker vein of humour than the original. Gomez and Morticia (Raul Julia and…
Hollywood’s plundering of classic TV series has produced its fair share of turkeys, but this is a glorious exception. This is partly owing to director…
Controversial standup comic Andrew Dice Clay crashed and burned in this awkward misstep from action director Renny Harlin (Die Hard 2: Die Harder). The over-hyped…
Out of the closet and into the mainstream, this film raised gay culture to moderately new heights of respectability in the suburbs of heterosexual Australia.…
12-year-old Lucas Hardy (Ben Keyworth) is going blind and the only thing that could save his eyesight is a risky eye operation that could either…
US President James Marshall (Harrison Ford), is returning home from Russia with his wife and daughter on the presidential jumbo when it is hijacked by…
Wayne’s World meets Dog Day Afternoon when Los Angeles rock band The Lone Rangers hold the employees of a radio station hostage. The Lone Rangers…
When street urchin Aladdin (voiced by Scott Weinger) releases a genie (voiced by Robin Williams) from a magic oil lamp, he uses its powers to…
This star-studded made-for-television Channel 4 adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s classic tale starred 24-year-old Kate Beckinsale (the daughter of Rising Damp and Porridge star Richard Beckinsale) as tired modern…
Given that the first two films stand up as sci-fi classics in their own right, 27-year-old rookie director David Fincher – best known for making…
In 1979, Sigourney Weaver was a relative unknown with only a couple of bit parts to her name when she won the role of Ripley…
“In a far-off corner of the galaxy, a well-armed rebel battalion ambushes the armies of the great tyrant, Baal. A massacre ensues. Thousands of innocents…