John Carpenter’s classic 1978 chiller gets a 1990s makeover, although in the hands of director Steve Miner the emphasis here is still firmly on frights…
Browsing: Movies 1998
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13-year-old Marnie Piper (Kimberly J. Brown) is sulking because she’s forbidden to join friends for Trick or Treat at Halloween. Her bookworm brother Dylan (Joey…
Aimed squarely at the teenage TV audience, this stalk-and-slash saga from director Jim Gillespie gives Scream (1996) writer Kevin Williamson the chance to revive his favourite…
Jack Frost (Michael Keaton) is an aspiring rock singer whose band – which includes Mark Addy from The Full Monty as his best friend and…
Last Night is perhaps the quietest of all films about the end of the world, offering a naturalistic study of behaviour and relationships in place…
Painfully shy ‘Little Voice’ (LV to her friends) has a secret talent – she can mimic famous singers perfectly. Her talents are belatedly recognised by…
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is a hilarious, highly entertaining British heist romp that brings together cutthroat cardshark pornographers, naive drug dealers, ruthless (yet…
This big-budget screen remake of Irwin Allen’s cult 1960s TV series is a charmless if flashy affair under the direction of Stephen Hopkins. The Robinson…
Old California. 1821. Masked hero Don Diego de la Vega (Anthony Hopkins) fights Spanish rule. After a final clash, his nemesis, the corrupt governor Don…
This harrowing writing and directorial debut from actor Gary Oldman centres on violence and alcoholism within a working-class family in a claustrophobic Bermondsey (south London)…
New York social worker Nina Borowski (Jennifer Aniston of Friends fame) learns she’s pregnant by Vince McBride (John Pankow), the lawyer she dates but doesn’t…
Patch Adams is based on the true story of Hunter Doherty “Patch” Adams – a jokester physician (played in the film by Robin Williams) who sees…
This delightful comic fable begins in full colour in 1998, when an introverted, TV-watching teen, David (Tobey Maguire), and his sister Jennifer (Reece Witherspoon) are…
After five years of movies featuring surrogate Bill Clintons ranging from benevolent (Dave, The American President) to vengeful (Air Force One) to malignant (Absolute Power,…
This perverse and entirely unnecessary experiment is literally nothing but a shot-for-shot colour remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1960 film with a different cast (and…
A freelance former CIA agent who uses the codename Sam (Robert De Niro) is recruited alongside a team of fellow mercenaries to take part in…
Young, flame-haired Lola (Franka Potente) receives a telephone call from her boyfriend Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu). Manni explains that he was supposed to deliver 100,000 Deutsche…
Some films create an entire world with its own rules and its own geography. Rushmore is one of the greatest of these. The grounds and…
American soldiers land on Omaha Beach on 6 June 1944 as part of the D-Day landings in Normandy during World War II, with multiple deaths…
Boyish Will Shakespeare (Joesph Fiennes, Ralph’s younger brother) pours out his troubles to a 16th-century shrink – the Bard-to-be (or not-to-be if he doesn’t overcome…