Trevor Garfield (Samuel L Jackson) is an idealistic, dedicated high school science teacher in Brooklyn. After refusing to give a passing grade to a violent…
Browsing: Movies 1997
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US President James Marshall (Harrison Ford), is returning home from Russia with his wife and daughter on the presidential jumbo when it is hijacked by…
In 1979, Sigourney Weaver was a relative unknown with only a couple of bit parts to her name when she won the role of Ripley…
This overwrought Australian drama concerns a mute girl who learns to communicate through song. Traumatised by witnessing the fatal electrocution of her rock star father…
Melvin Udall (Jack Nicholson) is a bitter, homophobic bigot suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder. He insults everyone, lives alone, and writes trashy novels for a living. The staff…
It’s swinging 1967. The vicious though childish Dr Evil (Mike Myers) – who has failed to kill his arch-enemy, British secret agent Austin Powers (also…
Mary Norton’s 1950s children’s stories about a diminutive family (the “Borrowers” of the title) are adapted here into a delightful family film. Jim Broadbent is…
Based loosely on the true story about Gertrude “Trudy” Davies Lintz, an eccentric 1930s socialite who takes in a sickly, orphaned baby gorilla (before she…
“Tell ’em they’re dreamin'” The Castle was the first feature-length offering from the creative team behind the hit Aussie comedy TV series, Frontline. They succeeded in producing…
This was the film that cemented Nicolas Cage’s reputation as one of Hollywood’s most unlikely action heroes. Cage is Cameron Poe, an ex-Army Ranger jailed…
Brilliant radio astronomer and research specialist Dr Eleanor Arroway (Jodie Foster) firmly believes in extraterrestrial life. So when she receives a message from the star…
This police drama was a real change of pace for Sylvester Stallone, who appears in a touching role as Freddy Heflin – an out-of-shape New…
This made-for-television sci-fi movie is set in the year 2638, and Earth is at war (again). This time, the battle isn’t between countries but between…
Woody Allen’s tumultuous private life seems to spill sourly into this bad-taste story about a novelist, Harry Block (Allen), whose friends and relatives are used…
Of course the Devil would be a lawyer. Al Pacino’s incarnation of Beelzebub, John Milton, is the head of the most powerful law firm in…
New York, 1978. Joe Pistone (Johnny Depp), an undercover FBI agent posing as jeweller Donnie Brasco, wins the trust of disgruntled mobster Lefty Ruggiero (Al…
Named after the area of space around a black hole beyond which matter seemingly disappears, the Event Horizon here is an experimental spacecraft that has…
In director John Woo’s over-the-top blockbuster, Nicolas Cage plays Castor Troy, a lunatic terrorist who, having planted a bomb somewhere in LA, is put into…
The Fifth Element begins in Egypt in the 1930s, where archaeologists are deciphering hieroglyphics on a tomb that describe linking the four elements – earth,…
After continually missing his own wedding, Professor Philip Brainard (Robin Williams) is given one last chance by his fiancée, Sarah (Marcia Gay Harden). Yet again…