Adapted from William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, the film begins with Cameron James (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) – a new student at (the fictional) Padua…
Browsing: Movies 1999
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It’s New Year’s Eve 1981 in New York’s new wavey Lower East Side, and Monica (Martha Plimpton) is having a party – although it’s already…
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…
Initially pitched by screenwriter Adam Herz (rather unpromisingly) as “Untitled Teenage Sex Comedy That Can Be Made For Under $10 Million”, this laughter-packed comedy about…
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…
Unfortunate puppeteer Craig Schwartz (John Cusack) barely scrapes together a living with his dark (and quite traumatic to children) street puppet shows. Meanwhile, his dowdy…
The film begins in the near future (2005). A robot named Andrew (Robin Williams) has just been purchased by a wealthy San Francisco family comprising…
Shot on video by its lead actors, and largely improvised, The Blair Witch Project looks like a student film. Yet not since Easy Rider (1969) has an independent film caused…
Tired of the crime overrunning the streets of Boston, Irish Catholic twin brothers Connor (Sean Patrick Flanery) and Murphy (Norman Reedus) MacManus are inspired by…
This made-for-television movie (produced by the BBC) puts big-budget Hollywood war movies to shame with its telling of the true story of the most highly…
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 (1994), Chasing Amy (1997), and the slightly less wonderful Mallrats (1995) – here tackles the subject of religion…
By the late 1990s, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s box-office reign was drawing to a close. The comedies Junior (1994) and Jingle All the Way (1996) grated on…
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…
Walt Koontz (Robert De Niro) is an abrasive, ultra-conservative and homophobic retired security guard who once heroically saved the lives of several people during a…
“By Grabthar’s hammer, by the suns of Worvan, you shall be avenged!” In this enormously entertaining send-up of the Star Trek universe, a bunch of…
This film version of Nelson DeMille’s 1992 best-selling mystery novel is a lurid mess – a Southern gumbo simmering in Gothic cliché. John Travolta plays…
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…