This Australian family comedy – based on British farmer turned teacher and author Dick King-Smith’s book The Sheep-Pig – came out of nowhere to enchant millions around…
Browsing: Movies – 1990s
Please note: The majority of movie posts contain spoilers.
Sodom here is the New York City of blood-splattered car hijacks and crack dens. Drugs, alcohol, spiralling debt and religious visitations are sending an NYPD cop…
Once upon a time, comic book films were not always expected to be sophisticated works of classy entertainment. Busting out with a tawdry introduction of…
After some success on Broadway, New York playwright Barton Fink (John Turturro) moves to Hollywood to make it big as a screenwriter for Capitol Pictures…
A lover of shoddy exploitation movies since he was knee-high to a grasshopper, New York filmmaker Frank Henenlotter didn’t have to go to film school…
Basket Case 3 – the final instalment in Frank Henenlotter’s cult trilogy – abandons the gritty horror of the original and the sequel for extreme…
Originally made just for television, Beautiful Thing from Channel 4 Films earned theatrical release thanks to its well-received screening on TV. 16-year-old boys Jamie (Glen…
Set in 18th-Century France, this landmark animated musical romantic fantasy film from Walt Disney Animation Studios follows selfish Prince Adam (voiced by Robby Benson), who…
Jesse from Texas (Ethan Hawke) picks up Céline from Paris (Julie Delpy) on a Eurail train from Budapest. She’s a grad student at the Sorbonne,…
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…
“This aggression will not stand, man.” The Coen brothers’ eighth feature opens with a lone tumbleweed trundling over desolate scrubland, and then up and over…
Wayne’s World (1992) heroes Wayne and Garth may have won at the box office, but Bill and Ted remain the original and best dudes. This time…
Wesley Snipes stars as the titular hero, a half-mortal, half-vampire (a “Daywalker”) who hunts down creatures of the night in this flashy action adventure based…
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…
This Canadian made-for-TV movie starred the Two Coreys™ in their first pairing as adults. After the mysterious and spectacular accidental death of her mother, in…
“Blue Ice” is the polite term for the contents of aircraft toilets that sometimes fall from the sky frozen. The film opens with baggy-eyed, droopy-jawed…
Set in 1962, Blue Sky is a powerful portrait of a family imploding. Carly Marshall (Jessica Lange), a Southern-bred manic-depressive who can hardly tell her own…
On her first day on the job, rookie NYPD cop Megan Turner (Jamie Lee Curtis) is the only officer on the scene when she shoots…
Tim Robbins’ directorial debut, inspired by the documentary Dont Look Back (1965), depicts Republican senator hopeful Robert ‘Bob’ Roberts Jr. (Robbins himself) as a cunning…