Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) is a disillusioned father who’s suffering mid-life meltdown and is increasingly alienated from grasping, estate agent wife Carolyn (Annette Bening), sullen…
Browsing: Movies 1999
This laughter-packed comedy about four Michigan high school seniors – Jim (Jason Biggs), Oz (Chris Klein), Kevin (Thomas Ian Nicholas) and Finch (Eddie Kaye Thomas)…
Robert De Niro gives one of his best comedy performances to date in this feel-good Mafia tale from Groundhog Day (1993) director Harold Ramis. De Niro…
When its predecessor, Austin Powers, International Man of Mystery, was released in 1997 nobody took much notice initially, but the often puerile comedy went on to…
Honoured with two Academy Awards, The Cider House Rules tells a compelling and heart-warming story about how far a young man must travel to find the place…
29-year-old writer/director Kevin Smith – who made the wonderful Clerks and Chasing Amy and the slightly less wonderful Mallrats – here tackles the subject of…
Eyes Wide Shut stars Tom Cruise and his then-wife Nicole Kidman. It is also the last film from Stanley Kubrick. The enigmatic director died just weeks…
“The first rule about Fight Club is that you don’t talk about Fight Club. The second rule about Fight Club is that you don’t talk…
In this enormously entertaining send-up of the Star Trek universe, a bunch of washed-up actors from an old cult sci-fi TV show called Galaxy Quest are…
As the story begins, a very old man begins to relate his story to a friend at a nursing home. He tells his companion about the…
Thomas Anderson (Keanu Reeves), who goes by the hacker alias ‘Neo’, is a regular guy working in a cubicle whilst doing some hacking in his…
Media tycoon Bill Parrish (Anthony Hopkins) has lived a rich life in every sense but fears that his days are numbered. He is offered a temporary…
The Four Weddings and A Funeral (1994) team produced another smash with this charming tale about charming, bumbling bookshop owner William Thacker (Hugh Grant) who falls…
Set in the 18th Century, Plunkett and Macleane is the story of two notorious highwaymen based on real-life characters. The film opens with Macleane (Jonny Lee Miller)…
8-year-old Cole (Haley Joel Osment) confesses to his shrink: “I see dead people”. But what do the lost souls of the world want from this…
The actors are wallpaper, the jokes are juvenile, there’s no romance, and the dialogue lands with the thud of a computer instruction manual. But it’s…
This superb – though very violent – mix of comedy, drama and action is set in 1991 at the end of the Gulf War. Hearing…
Toy Story 2 is among the finest kid-films-for-adults, with a truly heartbreaking subtext – what happens to toys when kids stop caring about them? When…
The 19th Bond adventure opens with a high-octane jetboat chase along London’s River Thames leading to a fight on the Millennium Dome. From then on…
