When the plane carrying Edward Douglas (David Thewlis) crashes, he is rescued by a boat carrying crates of animals by Montgomery (Val Kilmer), who promises…
Browsing: Movies 1996
Please note: The majority of movie posts contain spoilers.
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 vacuity as a sports agent managing 72 clients, Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) writes…
Workaholic mattress salesman Howard Langston (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is so busy at work that he constantly neglects his family and disappoints his son, Jamie (the future…
Naive and wide-eyed aw-shucks Iowa boy Joe (Jerry O’Connell) moves to New York City to make his fortune. He has no job, prospects or friends…
‘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…
John Sayles’s wise and witty study of interconnected lives down by the Texan border with Mexico is about crossing lines, digging up the past, learning…
Samantha Caine is a small-town suburban soccer mom with amnesia (Geena Davis) who hires reluctant, lily-livered and mainly incompetent private detective Mitch Hennessey (Samuel L…
The world is taken by surprise when Martians land on Earth and prove not to be goodwill ambassadors, but a wholly malevolent and destructive force.…
Frank Quinlan (William Hurt) and Huey Driscoll (Robert Pastorelli), two reporters from a Chicago-based tabloid, along with Dorothy Winters (Andie MacDowell), an ‘angel expert’, are…
Brian De Palma’s mastery of cinematic space bears itself out in the rush of a pre-credits set-up, which employs such CV-echoing tics as false sets,…
This big-screen adaptation of the novel by Kurt Vonnegut tells the intriguing (fictional) tale of how successful German-American playwright Howard Campbell (Nick Nolte) becomes embroiled…
Construction worker Doug Kinney (Michael Keaton) is struggling to juggle his work, wife Laura (Andie MacDowell), home and his two kids and still find some…
The Muppets take on Robert Louis Stevenson in their inimitable way in this rollicking musical version of the pirate saga. Using the bare bones of…
This biographical drama from director Oliver Stone stars Anthony Hopkins as Richard Milhous Nixon. From a humble Quaker upbringing, Nixon rose to became the 37th…
This reworking of the 1963 Jerry Lewis comedy saw Eddie Murphy back on form as Sherman Klump, a sweet-natured, obese science teacher who perfects a…
Attention all blaxploitation fanatics! Five 1970s icons – Fred Williamson (who came up with the story and produced), Pam Grier, Jim Brown, Ron O’Neal and…
“If the First Amendment will protect a scumbag like me, then it’ll protect all of you . . . ’cause I’m the worst”, declares Hustler publisher…
Before there was Batman or Superman, before Captain America or The Hulk, there was The Phantom – the purple-clad righter of wrongs who, along with…
A strange light in the sky gives small-town mechanic George Malley (John Travolta) paranormal powers in this feel-good sci-fi fable from director Jon Turteltaub. As…