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…
Browsing: Movies 1990
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“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…
A new species of spider is discovered in the rainforests of Venezuela, where British entomologist Dr James Atherton (Julian Sands) is seeking new specimens for…
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…
A lover of shoddy exploitation movies since he was knee-high to a grasshopper, New York filmmaker Frank Henenlotter didn’t have to go to film school…
On her first day on the job, rookie NYPD cop Megan Turner (Jamie Lee Curtis) is the only officer on the scene when she shoots…
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…
Set during World War II in London, deserted American serviceman Private Karl Hulten (Kiefer Sutherland) decides to impress small-town Welsh girl Betty Jones (Emily Lloyd)…
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…
Unlike the disastrous Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977), The Exorcist III was written and directed by the original Exorcist author, William Peter Blatty, and was…
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…
Director John Duigan began the coming-of-age story of Danny Embling in the wonderful The Year My Voice Broke (1987), and continues it in this even more…
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 of…