Michael Bay’s high-octane romp (and if ever there was a film deserving of the accolade “romp”, it’s this one) is prime 90’s action fodder. It’s…
Browsing: Movies 1996
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This version of William Shakespeare’s classic play features Mercurio as an African-American drag queen, a CNN-style TV news anchor filling the role of the Shakespearean…
A Hong Kong policeman (Jackie Chan) visiting New York for the wedding of a relative becomes involved in a battle against a gang that’s conducting…
“What’s your favourite scary movie?” Director Wes Craven’s intelligent reinvention of the slasher genre sees a sick maniac on the loose in a small suburban…
Hortense (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) is an accomplished young black middle-class Optometrist who was adopted as a baby. When her adoptive parents die, she decides to track…
Australia in the 1950s: the young David Helfgott (Geoffrey Rush) excels at the piano, but his domineering father (Armin Mueller-Stahl) forbids him to accept a…
Four mischievous friends growing up in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen in the 1960s – Michael, John, Tommy and ‘Shakes’ – are sent to the Wilkinson…
When the classic Looney Tunes characters (Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, etc) are forced to play an important basketball game against evil aliens, American…
The blockbuster action thriller genre is ripe for sending up, but this lazy effort has to go down as a miss despite the presence of…
By inventing the warp drive, Zefram Cochrane (James Cromwell) attracts the attention of the Vulcan civilisation to Earth’s presence. Spock-eared ambassadors arrive to found the interplanetary…
Based on a half-decent novel by Carl Hiaasen, Striptease is a dumbed-down-for-the-masses vehicle for Demi Moore, who one doesn’t immediately associate with comedy unless Indecent Proposal (1993)…
“You’re so money and you don’t even know it.” A decade before ‘bromance’ became its own subgenre, this honest exploration of male friendship was based…
Tom Hanks made his directorial debut with this immensely likeable pop fable (which he also wrote) about the meteoric rise and fall of The Wonders,…
“Choose Life. Choose A Job. Choose A Starter Home. Choose Dental Insurance, Leisure Wear and Matching Luggage. Choose Your Future. But Why Would Anyone Want…
One of the rare occasions when a sequel works better than the original, this follow-up to the 1995 big-screen adaptation of TV’s The Brady Bunch…
This film from Christopher Guest about a small-town theatre troupe struggling to put on a musical is as touching as it is hilarious. Set in…