Timid and overly-nice loans officer Stanley Ipkiss (Jim Carrey) rescues what he thinks is a body from the river only to find out that it…
Browsing: Movies 1994
Muriel Heslop (Toni Collette) is a shy, overweight, ugly duckling living in the Australian seaside resort town of Porpoise Spit – a suburban wonderland of…
This second chip off the Naked Gun block follows the hallowed tradition of wallowing in stupidity. Still, it’s hard to hate a sequel whose ad copy contains…
Serial killers Mickey (Woody Harrelson) and Mallory (Juliette Lewis) Knox are turned into folk heroes by media excesses in this striking movie that was publicly…
When this was made, John Grisham’s stock in Hollywood was so high that one of his shopping lists could probably have spawned a blockbuster movie.…
Downtown Los Angeles: lovebirds Honey Bunny and Pumpkin plan to hold up a diner. Hitmen Vincent and Jules are asked to recover some stolen property.…
Robert Redford’s Quiz Show unveils the insidious corruption at the heart of Twenty One, America’s favourite TV show in the 1950s, capturing the look and atmosphere of the…
After the sweeping, noble scale of Gandhi (1982) and Cry Freedom (1987), Richard Attenborough directed this more intimate drama which remains one of his best pictures to…
Just two years before his 90’s hit Trainspotting, Danny Boyle’s impressive debut feature gave British cinema a lift with its uncharacteristic venture into noir territory. Alex, a…
When Andy Dufresne’s wife and her lover are found murdered, having been shot in bed, her husband, Maine banker Andy (Tim Robbins), is the prime…
Speed is one of those movies which does exactly what it says on the tin. It tears along with the machine-tooled precision of a big-budget action…
The film’s prologue is set in the 23rd century days of Captain Kirk (William Shatner) and his crew – in this case, that means Scotty…
With a vast army of street fighters from South-East Asia to do his bidding, psychotic fascist warlord General M. Bison (Raul Julia) is holding a…
Surely a tax write-off for someone, this audaciously silly film begins with high school footballer Mike (Paul Walker) being mauled by a lion when school…
Earning Krzysztof Kieslowski Oscar nominations for both script (co-written by Krzysztof Piesiewicz) and direction, this concluding part of his tricolour trilogy has much in common…
Three Colours: White is the second part of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s trilogy – the other parts being Three Colours: Blue and Three Colours: Red. The movie…
It is 2004 (the future) and time travel technology has been secretly developed by the US government who – concerned about potential misuse – have…
Harry Tasker (Arnold Schwarzenegger) works for a top secret organisation, Omega Sector, and is investigating a group of Arab terrorists involved in smuggling nuclear weapons.…
David Puttnam’s tale of an Irish childhood – adapted by Colin Welland from a Louis Pergaud novel filmed by Yves Robert in 1962 – is…
Jack Nicholson was better as a wolfman than De Niro was as the Frankenstein monster, but this glossy major release is more like David Cronenberg’s…