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…
Browsing: Movies 1991
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…
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…
Christopher Walken is Detective Decker in this dumb but entertaining direct-to-video Twin Peaks inspired feature. It was made in Tulsa, Oklahoma, by Anson Williams -…
Joseph Bologna stars as night shift cop David Hodges in what’s basically a PG-13 remake of the original Alligator movie (1980). Deep in the sewers…
Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel (he hated the nickname and was known to physically assault anyone unwise enough to use it in his presence) was a renaissance mobster…
Martin Scorsese’s surprising remake of the 1962 Cape Fear affords a masterly demonstration of his technical virtuosity but eschews the creepy realism of the original to play…
Billy Crystal and chums Daniel Stern and Bruno Kirby are the city folk who get the chance to play at Rawhide in this winning comedy…
Alan Parker‘s film follows the rise and fall of a young Irish soul band, based on the first part of Roddy Doyle’s ‘Barrytown Trilogy’. Set…
Writer-Director Albert Brooks plays Daniel Miller, a divorced L.A. advertising executive who dies in a crash with a bus while driving his BMW convertible and…
Creatively combining genres – post-apocalyptic sci-fi, black comedy and sweet romance – and offering audiences an impressively oddball collection of sounds, colours, actors and images,…
While travelling to a new job in California, ambitious doctor Benjamin Stone (Michael J Fox) crashes his car in a small South Carolina town and…
Although the title would have you believe that this is a biopic of the entire band, we learn next to nothing about Ray Manzarek, John…
Young Elizabeth Cronin (Ashley Peldon) has an imaginary friend called Drop Dead Fred. Imaginary friends are usually nice little boys and girls. But not Drop…
Ernest Goes to Camp (1987) took $23.4 million at the box office. Ernest Saves Christmas (1988) grossed $28.1 million. Ernest Goes to Jail (1990) did $25.1 million in business.…
The Arthurian legend of a maimed warrior healed by the innocence of “a perfect fool” is given a magical update by director Terry Gilliam, tripping…
Bette Midler plays irrepressible singer Dixie Leonard, a USO performer throughout World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. She and her shallow…
It’s 1999 and thanks to Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund), Springwood is now a virtual ghost town and down to its last surviving teenager, John Doe…
While visiting a rest home with her husband, an unhappily married housewife (Kathy Bates) meets lively Southern octogenarian Ninny Threadgoode (Jessica Tandy) who tells her…
J.M. Barrie must be turning over in his grave with fury. This boring, overproduced, ugly, incoherent waste of $80 million is Steven Spielberg’s pretentious attempt…
