Disney updated its classic animated tale with this live-action version starring a deliciously over-the-top Glenn Close as the infamous villain Cruella De Vil, the rich…
Browsing: Movies 1996
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Once upon a time, comic book films were not always expected to be sophisticated works of classy entertainment. Busting out with a tawdry introduction of…
Originally made just for television, Beautiful Thing from Channel 4 Films earned theatrical release thanks to its well-received screening on TV. 16-year-old boys Jamie (Glen…
Harry Cronin (newcomer James Hickey) is an eight-year-old boy growing up in Dublin, Ireland, in 1960 with his doting but dis-spirited widowed mother, May (Rita…
For a movie that basically puts a 90s spin on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, with Winona Ryder as a runaway babe given shelter by…
Brassed Off – written and directed by Mark Herman – takes a look at the plight of the British coal miner. Once, mining was a thriving…
13th-century Scotland. A Scottish rebel, William Wallace (played by Australian/American Mel Gibson), leads an uprising against the cruel English reign of Edward the Longshanks (Patrick…
Jim Carrey was afforded the opportunity to do something different in this jet-black satire on the power of television, and he responded with a performance…
During the 1991 Gulf War, Lt. Col. Nat Serling (Denzel Washington) accidentally takes out one of his own tanks in the midst of a chaotic…
Based on JG Ballard’s cult novel, this uncompromising and controversial film from director David Cronenberg is set among a group of urban sophisticates so morally exhausted that…
“It’s the only movie released this year with fourteen words in its title” This spoof of ‘Hood films was directed by Paris Barclay and stars…
Anthony Minghella‘s lavish adaptation of Michael Ondaatje’s Booker-winning novel was critically adored and showered in Oscars (although it provoked a backlash for expansive pretension in…
Based on the hit Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice musical, there are really only three characters in Evita: Perón (Jonathan Pryce), the sly soldier who studied fascism…
Sally Field stars as Karen McCann, a middle-aged, middle-class woman whose teenage daughter, Julie (Olivia Burnette) is raped and killed by an intruder in a…
The Coen brothers (director/writer Joel and producer/writer Ethan) are on top form with this quirky, unconventional, comedy-tinged crime thriller set in snowy Northern Minnesota. Car…
Olivia Goldsmith’s bestselling novel is turned into a hilarious film by Police Academy director Hugh Wilson. Hollywood divas Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler and Diane Keaton…
New York entomologist Mel Coplin (Ben Stiller) is having a mid-life crisis. He knows he is adopted, and has been content to accept his adopted…
A year after Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez each helmed a segment of portmanteau comedy Four Rooms, the pair delivered this deliciously schlocky homage to…
In the small Southern US town of Nobs Hollow, redneck diner owner Lance (Blake Adams, billed here as Blake Bailey) is having an affair with…
Three dozen alien saucers descend from space and take up positions over cities around the globe. The Clintonesque US President Thomas J. Whitmore (Bill Pullman),…