There are few more controversial subjects in Britain than ‘the Troubles’ in Northern Ireland and the activities of the IRA. It was therefore extremely bold…
Browsing: Movies 1993
Please note: The majority of movie posts contain spoilers.
Diana (Demi Moore) and David (Woody Harrelson) are childhood sweethearts who married when she was just 19. She sells real estate and he’s an architect…
Anne (Patricia Phillips) walks out on her big, fat, dumb husband and her kids, Dora and Jack, when they are infants. Dora is adopted by…
In this 1993 addition to the Friday the 13th franchise (although New Line Cinema did not have the rights to the name “Friday the 13th”, hence the…
Faithfully adapted from Amy Tan’s bestselling book, director Wayne Wang’s moving yet witty melodrama mixes the stories of four Chinese-born mothers with those of their…
Steven Spielberg’s dinosaur thriller grossed over $900 million worldwide, demonstrating once again the director’s uncanny insight into what the public – especially the young -…
Yuppie journalist Brian Kessler (David Duchovny) and his formidable photographer girlfriend Carrie Laughlin (Michelle Forbes) are headed west on a road trip custom-designed to fulfil…
Roger Avary co-wrote Pulp Fiction (1994) with Quentin Tarantino, and his debut feature as a director deals with many of the same themes. Eric Stoltz is…
An Arnold Schwarzenegger backlash had been on the cards for some time and when this extravaganza was released the knives were well and truly out.…
Dan O’Grady (Shay Duffin), a drunken, middle-aged ex-patriot Irishman, returns to his small North Dakota hometown after attending his mother’s funeral in Ireland and tells…
Set in October 1962 at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, larger-than-life independent horror filmmaker Lawrence Woolsey (John Goodman) arrives in Key West, Florida,…
Caine Lawson, the young man at the centre of Menace II Society, is not evil in the usual sense of the word. He has a…
As a sweet voice-over actor who can imitate Mickey Mouse, Barbra Streisand and grand opera sopranos at the Met with equal aplomb, Daniel Hillard (Robin…
Unemployed Johnny (David Thewlis) has to flee Manchester and heads to London where he calls at the home of his ex-girlfriend Louise (Lesley Sharp). After…
After another successful celebration in Halloween Town – which is populated by vampires, ghouls, fiends, mad scientists and other strange creatures – the disenchanted Pumpkin…
Tom Hanks, in the most artistically challenging and physically and emotionally punishing role of his career, plays Andy Beckett, a whiz-kid lawyer who is rising…
Ada (Holly Hunter) is a wilful mail-order bride who has been mute since the age of six. She narrates the movie, explaining, “This is not…
Shady museum curator Rico Sarno (Stephen Lee) steals five ancient, sacred dinosaur eggs from a forbidden temple in South America. Meanwhile, widowed raisin farmer and…
The large Kelly family run a Gaudi-esque pub-cum-video rental business on Reckless Island. The Kelly Gang – which only consists of Ned (a descendant of…
A hapless drifter (Nicolas Cage, this time in a non-comic variation on his innocent dupe persona) turns up in a small town with nothing but…