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…
Browsing: Movies 1997
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…
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 (Myers) – who has failed to kill his arch-enemy, British secret agent Austin Powers (also Myers)…
“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…
Astronomer and research specialist Dr Eleanor Arroway (Jodie Foster) firmly believes in extraterrestrial life. So when she receives a message from extraterrestrials explaining how humble…
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…
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…
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…
The Full Monty is a touching and often hilarious comedy based in the once thriving Yorkshire steel town of Sheffield – The “City of Steel” which was…
Demi Moore plays Lieutenant Jordan O’Neil, a naval intelligence officer who becomes the first woman to train with the macho Navy SEALs as part of…
Gattaca is set in a dystopian future society where the socio-economic class divide is determined by genetics instead of education or talent. The world has…
Winning an Oscar for Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s screenplay, Good Will Hunting is about Will Hunting (Damon), a wrong-side-of-the-tracks janitor at top college MIT, who has…
Martin Q Blank (John Cusak) is a hitherto successful hit man who has just hit burnout. After a bungled job, he gets the chance to…
Gummo was the directorial debut of Kids scriptwriter Harmony Korine. The 23-year-old intended the film as a portrait of a financially, culturally, and spiritually depressed Middle America and…
