The year is 2035 and an unknown virus has wiped out most of humanity. The few survivors live in a grim subterranean city beneath Philadelphia. Haunted by…
Browsing: Movies 1995
Rubber-faced comedian Jim Carrey returned to the screen as the hyperkinetic sleuth from the previous year’s hit Ace Ventura, Pet Detective. Ace’s newest adventure found him…
The subject of Apollo 13 is exactly what the title suggests. The movie charts the fraught 13th Apollo space mission, undertaken in 1970. The fact that the…
This Australian family comedy – based on British farmer turned teacher and author Dick King-Smith’s book The Sheep-Pig – came out of nowhere to enchant millions around…
In the 1990s, Hollywood studios desperately ransacked their old TV archives for cinema remake material, with very mixed results. This is probably the most innovative…
Clint Eastwood directed and starred in this romantic drama based on Robert James Waller’s bestseller. National Geographic photographer Robert Kincaid (Eastwood) is a sensitive loner drawn into…
Thirty years after the film of Len Deighton’s novel The Ipcress File (1965), Michael Caine resurrects his British spy Harry Palmer, first pitched as an off-the-peg…
This masterpiece from Martin Scorsese opens with the mob pushing into the casinos in the 1970s and the action centres around the fictional Tangiers Casino…
Film fans watching Look Who’s Talking Too at the dawn of the 90s might never have guessed that writer-director Amy Heckerling’s next film – a…
The smashing Kate Beckinsale stars as Flora Poste, the sophisticated orphan who leaves a cushy berth with her rich London friend (Joanna Lumley) to live…
Offbeat Western starring Johnny Depp as penniless sissy Ohio accountant William Blake who arrives in the lawless Wild West town of Machine (where prostitutes perform…
Sean Penn gives a chilling and mesmerising portrayal of sociopathy, as Matthew Poncelet, a trailer trash multiple killer on death row with no sense of…
The third Die Hard film became the highest grossing American film of 1995 and re-established the action franchise’s reputation for excellence. In the midst of…
Directed by prolific editor Anne Gourmand, Embrace of the Vampire revolves around chaste college student Charlotte (Alyssa Milano of Who’s The Boss? fame), whose dreams…
A kind of young-adult take on ‘90s slacker workplace comedies, Empire Records is a mess of a movie and not nearly as funny as it ought to…
This comedy based on the 1960s TV cartoon series starred John Goodman (as Fred Flintstone) and Elizabeth Perkins (as his wife Wilma) and featured Elizabeth…
This adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s novel explores the murky world of Hollywood’s links to organised crime. Made in the wake of Pulp Fiction (1994), Get Shorty…
Pierce Brosnan makes his 007 debut by bringing a refreshing dash of dynamism, humour and self-mocking jingoism back to the classic formula. Named after the house…
Teenage hackers uncover a massive computer fraud in this romantic action-adventure from director Iain Softley that’s set against the intriguing backdrop of New York’s cyber-culture.…
A stellar cast sizzles in Heat, a taut psychological drama about an obsessive detective and a brilliant thief whose fates are linked in the aftermath…
