This poignant adaptation of a Tobias Wolff memoir takes a realistic look at growing up in the 1950s. Leonardo DiCaprio plays Toby (Tobias), a young…
Browsing: Movies – 1990s
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Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski already had the sublime and unsurpassable Dekalog series to his credit when he embarked upon this trilogy, named after the colours…
Earning Krzysztof Kieslowski Oscar nominations for both script (co-written by Krzysztof Piesiewicz) and direction, this concluding part of his tricolour trilogy has much in common…
Three Colours: White is the second part of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s trilogy – the other parts being Three Colours: Blue and Three Colours: Red. The movie…
This superb – though very violent – mix of comedy, drama and action is set in 1991 at the end of the Gulf War. Hearing…
It is 2004 (the future) and time travel technology has been secretly developed by the US government who – concerned about potential misuse – have…
On 15 April 1912, five days after embarking on her maiden voyage from England to New York, the unsinkable Titanic hit an iceberg and went down…
Nicole Kidman gives a great performance in this brilliantly acerbic satire on fame and the American Dream, playing shallow suburban princess Suzanne Stone, whose entire…
This superb love story begins in England in 1914, just before a brilliant American student doing graduate studies at Oxford (under Bertrand Russell) and a…
Tommy Boy – essentially just an unbroken series of fat and dumb jokes – adds to the Saturday Night Live legacy of big screen shame and…
Pierce Brosnan dons his tuxedo for his second outing as 007 in Tomorrow Never Dies. His nemesis this time around is media mogul Elliot Carver, played…
Cult science-fiction author Philip K Dick’s short story We Can Remember It For You Wholesale is impressively translated onto the screen with numerous jaw-dropping special effects…
Pixar began their illustrious feature career with the beloved and imaginative Toy Story that brought to life a world of talking toys, into which no…
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…
Director Barry Levinson was riding high with Bugsy (1991) – and then along came Toys, the most calamitous waste of talent (Robin Williams) and money ($40…
“Choose Life. Choose A Job. Choose A Starter Home. Choose Dental Insurance, Leisure Wear and Matching Luggage. Choose Your Future. But Why Would Anyone Want…
This low-budget made-for-television movie – a joint American/Australian production – is based on the short story Breaking Strain by Arthur C Clarke. The cargo spaceship…
Harry Tasker (Arnold Schwarzenegger) works for a top-secret government organisation, Omega Sector, and – with his partner Gib (a scene-stealing Tom Arnold) – is investigating…
Murder, relentless profanity, graphic depictions of drug-taking, woman-beating and torture, scenes of racial abuse and sexual harassment – hardly your regular recipe for a romantic…
Death has its limitations – This is the message in Truly, Madly, Deeply, a wonderful British film that looks at life, death and survival with freshness…