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
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 (Mel Gibson), leads an uprising against the cruel English reign of Edward the Longshanks (Patrick McGoohan) who…
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…
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…
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…
Three-dozen alien saucers descend from space and take up positions over cities around the globe. US President Thomas J. Whitmore (Bill Pullman), a former jet…
When the plane carrying Edward Douglas (David Thewlis) crashes, he is rescued by a boat carrying crateloads of animals by Montgomery (Val Kilmer) who promises…
In Big (1988), Tom Hanks played a boy in the body of a man. This comedy-drama repeats the trick by casting Robin Williams as a ten-year-old…
“You had me at ‘Hello'” After a sudden realisation of his moral vacuousness as a sports agent in charge of 72 clients, Jerry Maguire writes…
‘You’re on a gravy train with biscuit wheels.’ Roy Munson (Woody Harrelson), the 1979 Odor Eaters Ten-Pin Bowling Champion, falls in with his arch-rival, fright-wigged…
A small-town housewife with amnesia (Geena Davis) who hires a private detective (Samuel L Jackson) to find out about her past life discovers that she…
The world is taken by surprise when Martians land on Earth and prove not to be good-will ambassadors, but a wholly malevolent and destructive force.…
