Marcus Graham (Eddie Murphy) is a suave, wealthy marketing ace for a large cosmetics firm in New York. He’s also a sharp-dressing guy on the…
Browsing: Movies – 1990s
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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…
Mary Norton’s 1950s children’s stories about a diminutive family (the “Borrowers” of the title) are adapted here into a delightful family film. Jim Broadbent is…
The first feature film directed by 25-year-old Jennifer Chambers (daughter of David Lynch) is a tale of obsessive passion that is as risibly far-fetched as…
Harry Cronin (newcomer James Hickey) is an eight-year-old boy growing up in Dublin, Ireland, in 1960 with his doting but dis-spirited widowed mother, May (Rita…
For a movie that basically puts a 90s spin on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, with Winona Ryder as a runaway babe given shelter by…
In 1984, ten-year-old Jason “Tre” Styles III (Desi Arnez Hines II) lives with his single mother, Reva (Angela Bassett), in Inglewood, California. When Tre gets…
In the 1990s, Hollywood studios desperately ransacked their old TV archives for cinema remake material, with very mixed results. This is probably the most innovative…
Peter Jackson’s zombiefest follow-up to Bad Taste (1987), set in a New Zealand suburb in the late 50s, is one of the most relentlessly gleefully nasty…
“I have crossed oceans of time to find you”. In 15th-century Romania, Count Dracula (Gary Oldman) returns from the Crusades to discover his wife Elisabeta…
Brassed Off – written and directed by Mark Herman – takes a look at the plight of the British coal miner. Once, mining was a thriving…
13th-century Scotland. A Scottish rebel, William Wallace (played by Australian/American Mel Gibson), leads an uprising against the cruel English reign of Edward the Longshanks (Patrick…
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…
Clint Eastwood directed and starred in this romantic drama based on Robert James Waller’s bestseller. National Geographic photographer Robert Kincaid (Eastwood) is a sensitive loner drawn into…
Based loosely on the true story about Gertrude “Trudy” Davies Lintz, an eccentric 1930s socialite who takes in a sickly, orphaned baby gorilla (before she…
Teenager Buddy Clark (Chesney Hawkes) begins to learn to play the guitar in a touching attempt to communicate with his father, Terry (Roger Daltrey), a…
Vincent Gallo is nothing if not indulgent, a quality that’s earned him both a legion of detractors and a fervent cult following. His directorial debut,…
This second teaming of Disney and Pixar (the computer animation studio behind the critically acclaimed and commercially successful Toy Story) Each season, the ants collect…
Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel (he hated the nickname and was known to physically assault anyone unwise enough to use it in his presence) was a renaissance mobster…
Thirty years after the film of Len Deighton’s novel The Ipcress File (1965), Michael Caine resurrects his British spy Harry Palmer, first pitched as an off-the-peg…