21st Century scientist Dr Joseph Buchanan (John Hurt) is an idealistic man of conscience who nevertheless is working on a top-secret atomic laser weapon. Testing…
Browsing: 1990
In this unofficial sequel to Purple Rain (1984), The Kid (Prince) is now partners with the venal Morris Day in the Glam Slam nightclub. But…
Tom Wolfe’s 1987 novel about the Greed Decade was penetrating. prophetic and incisively satirical. Director Brian De Palma’s $45 million film version of the book…
This third instalment in The Exorcist franchise features Oscar winner George C. Scott (Patton) at his gravelly-voiced best. Unlike the previously released and disastrous Exorcist…
Controversial standup comic Andrew Dice Clay crashed and burned in this awkward misstep from action director Renny (Die Hard 2: Die Harder) Harlin. The over-hyped…
Billy Peltzer (Zach Galligan) and his fiancée Kate Beringer (Phoebe Cates) have moved to New York after surviving the first nightmarish wave of gremlins. Both…
January 01 – David Dinkins is sworn in as New York City’s first black mayor. 02 – World population passes five billion. In 1960 it…
With this epic, Martin Scorsese returned to the world of tough-talking Italian-American hoods featured in Mean Streets (1973), following 30 years in the lives of a group…
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…
Poor old Rocky (Sylvester Stallone) is on his uppers, with brain damage and a cleaned-out bank account. He is forced to retire but decides to train…
This superb adaptation of Stephen King’s bestseller from director Rob Reiner deals with the trappings of celebrity, fanatical devotion, artistic dilemmas and the worthiness of…
Albert Finney chews his tongue and locks his jaw as Leo, an Irish mobster who controls the bookies, prize-fights, and rackets in some prehistoric city…
Another harrowing detour to hell, not for the squeamish or prudish, this blistering adaptation of Hubert Selby’s shocking short-story collection about violence and suffering in…
Gary and Martin Kemp of Spandau Ballet starred in this account of Ronnie and Reggie Kray – the absolute rulers of London’s East End underworld through their…
In 1960, seven outcast kids who are known as ‘The Lucky Seven’ have to fight and defeat an evil demon who can shapeshift into a…
New Yorker Brontë Parrish (Andie MacDowell) is reluctantly talked into marrying French musician George Faure (Gérard Depardieu) to enable him to qualify for American citizenship.…
Director Renny Harlin can be a terrible hack but he’s in his element when he’s not bothering about characters, just blowing stuff up. This is the…
Comics had been made into movies for decades but it was Warren Beatty’s production of Dick Tracy (1990) that ultimately made the perfect marriage between film and…
Any movie that runs three hours is an hour too long, no matter how good it is. Any movie in which half of the dialogue…
Director Robert Zemeckis’s blockbusting trilogy went slightly off the rails with the second segment, but it got right back on track (literally) with this concluding…
