Controversial standup comic Andrew Dice Clay crashed and burned in this awkward misstep from action director Renny (Die Hard 2: Die Harder) Harlin. The over-hyped…
Browsing: Movies 1990
This true story is adapted from a 1973 book by Dr Oliver Sacks, a clinical neurologist who in a New York hospital in 1969 used…
Bullseye! saw Roger Moore and Michael Caine work together onscreen for the first time. Great friends in real life, it must have seemed like a…
In Tony Bill’s humourless satire, Dudley Moore plays Emory Leeson, an advertising copywriter so desperately out of slogans that he winds up in a mental…
Take a star – here it’s top gun Tom Cruise – and mix in fast planes, bikes, cars or anything which makes a deafening noise,…
Death In Brunswick opens with an image that could be culled from any urban backstreet in Greece or Turkey. A hot wind whips along an empty…
Comics had been made into movies for decades but it was Warren Beatty’s production of Dick Tracy (1990) that ultimately made the perfect marriage between film and…
Director Renny Harlin can be a terrible hack but he’s in his element when he’s not bothering about characters, just blowing stuff up. This is the…
Rather than follow the hugely successful Batman (1989) with another special effects-driven bonanza, director Tim Burton instead delivered a delightfully realised movie that was about as far…
Jim Varney played Ernest P Worrell – a character big on smile but small on brains – in over 2,000 television commercials before venturing into…
This third instalment in The Exorcist franchise features Oscar winner George C. Scott (Patton) at his gravelly-voiced best. Unlike the previously released and disastrous Exorcist…
Obsessed with stories of patients who were pronounced dead only to be revived a few minutes later, medical student Nelson Wright (Kiefer Sutherland) intrigues four…
When his fiancée, Elizabeth (Patty Mullen, Penthouse Pet of the Year in 1988) is horribly mutilated in a freak lawnmower accident, inventor Jeffrey Franken (James…
21st Century scientist Dr Joseph Buchanan (John Hurt) is an idealistic man of conscience who nevertheless is working on a top-secret atomic laser weapon. Testing…
Young college student Clark Kellogg (Matthew Broderick) has just arrived in New York from Connecticut to study filmmaking at NYU. Within 20 minutes of arriving…
Patrick Swayze is Sam Wheat – a yuppie banker who gets murdered by a mugger in the streets of New York in the first reel…
New York, 1979: Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) – diabetic and pushing 60 – wants out of his criminal empire in a search for respectability. But…
With this epic, Martin Scorsese returned to the world of tough-talking Italian-American hoods featured in Mean Streets (1973), following 30 years in the lives of a group…
In this unofficial sequel to Purple Rain (1984), The Kid (Prince) is now partners with the venal Morris Day in the Glam Slam nightclub. But…
New Yorker Brontë Parrish (Andie MacDowell) is reluctantly talked into marrying French musician George Faure (Gérard Depardieu) to enable him to qualify for American citizenship.…
