This superb adaptation of Stephen King’s bestseller from director Rob Reiner deals with the trappings of celebrity, fanatical devotion, artistic dilemmas and the worthiness of…
Browsing: Movies 1990
Please note: The majority of movie posts contain spoilers.
Some Like It Hot (1959) with wimples, Jonathan Lynn’s ecclesiastical cross-dressing caper sees two small-time London hoods, Brian (Eric Idle) and Charlie (Robbie Coltrane) hole up…
Pacific Heights is another movie about yuppies in danger. This time, Drake Goodman (Matthew Modine) and Patty Palmer (Melanie Griffith) co-purchase and restore a Victorian house…
After becoming one of the biggest child stars of the 1980s, Corey Haim got off on the wrong foot in the 90s, thanks to this…
This sequel to Arnie Schwarzenegger’s 1987 hit takes place in 1997, with the setting changed from the jungles of South America to the urban jungles…
Pretty Woman is a funny, beautifully photographed, old-fashioned yet modern romantic love story. Julia Roberts plays Vivian, a Hollywood hooker who shows lonely, self-made millionaire New…
This made-for-TV movie – the final film in the original Psycho franchise – does provide an epilogue and conclusion to the events of Psycho III…
“Do you ever get the feeling that everything in America is completely fucked up?” Released in 1990, Pump Up the Volume is the unsung sibling…
This direct-to-video 35mm cheapie is set in a quiet Californian desert town where Deputy Steve Reed (Stephen Fiachi) fills his days with unsuccessful target practice…
Disgruntled New York City planner Grimm (Bill Murray) decides he has had enough of the urban nightmare and masterminds an ingenious bank robbery in midtown…
In the 1860s, Elite Wyoming sharpshooter Matthew Quigley (Tom Selleck) answers a newspaper advertisement from a wealthy Australian cattle rancher offering an astronomical sum of…
In one of the most famous trials of the 1980s, European aristocrat Claus von Bülow (Jeremy Irons, who won an Oscar for his portrayal) was…
The original movie was a smart comic strip pastiche. This one is just a comic book, full stop and seems unsure of exactly what it…
Poor old Rocky (Sylvester Stallone) is on his uppers, with brain damage and a cleaned-out bank account. He is forced to retire but decides to train…
A flying saucer, which is part of a large Martian invasion force, is en route to attack the planet Arcturus. Passing Earth, it is distracted…
Those kickboxing, pizza-munching, kung fu fighting, sewer-dwelling super-reptiles made their feature debut in this uneven comic-strip fantasy, directed by pop-video whizzkid Steve Barron. The foursome…
Cult science-fiction author Philip K Dick’s short story We Can Remember It For You Wholesale is impressively translated onto the screen with numerous jaw-dropping special effects…
Death has its limitations – This is the message in Truly, Madly, Deeply, a wonderful British film that looks at life, death and survival with freshness…
Casey Galagher (a ridiculously miscast Anthony Michael Hall) is a young, brash, wisecracking undercover Los Angeles cop. Stan Walton (Jerry Orbach) is the Chief of…
Max Baron (James Spader) – a haughty young fellow of prosperous roots – takes up with slatternly burger joint waitress Nora Baker (Susan Sarandon) who…