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…
Browsing: Movies 1997
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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…
With no pretension to anything other than the basest Z-movie thrills, this tale of a wise-cracking homicidal snowman is not to be confused with the Michael Keaton-starring…
“AK-47. The very best there is. When you absolutely, positively got to kill every motherfucker in the room, accept no substitutes”. Imaginatively dragging Elmore Leonard’s…
This sparkling adaptation of crime master James Ellroy’s pulp fiction novel touches on countless pieces of old Tinseltown lore: the Robert Mitchum marijuana bust, a…
Lawyer Fletcher Reede (Jim Carrey) is a compulsive liar. When his deceits lead to him missing his son’s birthday party, the boy makes an exasperated…
O’Reilly (Holly Hunter) and Jackson (Delroy Lindo) are angels on assignment to make a love connection between Robert (Ewan McGregor), a scruffy, unemployed Marxist janitor,…
There’s another island full of genetically created dinosaurs in this exuberantly calculated sequel to Jurassic Park (1993). After all, if the first time went horribly wrong,…
This smash-hit science-fiction comedy, based on a short-lived comic strip by Lowell Cunningham, has veteran secret agent “K” (Tommy Lee Jones) and new recruit “J”…
1916: Michael Collins is a young Irish volunteer whose participation in the Easter Uprising fuels his desire to see Ireland free of British rule. With his…
Clive Peacock (James Bolam) is a dedicated postman in a small seaside town in Dorset. He’s very happy in his job and doesn’t want it…
Judi Dench and Billy Connolly are a wonderfully regal double-act in this perceptive blend of fact and fiction. The story examines the relationship between Queen…
When food critic Julianne Potter (Julia Roberts) learns that her best friend and ex-lover, sportswriter Michael O’Neal (Dermot Mulroney), is getting married to Kimmy Wallace…
Based on an award-winning science fiction novel by David Brin, this three-hour movie takes place in post-holocaust America in 2013 (the future). The dust clouds…
Following an unfortunate incident in which six people lost their lives, guilt-ridden Chicago psychiatrist and hostage negotiator Karen Warren (Australian model Kylie Travis) quits her…
Likeable vacuous characters triumph over unlikable vacuous characters in Romy And Michele’s High School Reunion, a just-plain-vacuous comedy starring Friends’ Lisa Kudrow and a woefully miscast…