Where do you go after crafting ludicrously entertaining action romp Con Air? Well, for director Simon West you apparently shoot for the complete tonal opposite
Tag: 1990s
Leprechaun 2 (1994) – Review
The greatest danger with starting any horror franchise off the back of a recognisable, monstrous icon is that if you go to the well one
Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace (1996) – Review
It seems almost deliciously fitting that The Lawnmower Man, a “Stephen King adaption” that utterly ignored its source material, would itself spawn a sequel that
Puppet Master II (1990) – Review
While I’ve already stated elsewhere that the surprisingly sprawling Puppet Master series isn’t exactly my favorite, there are two facts I’ll happily conceade to: 1)
Leprechaun (1992) – Review
If horror cinema has proven anything, it’s that it’s possible to eke out a movie from even the most ridiculous premise. Over the years we’ve
Hudson Hawk (1991) – Review
While it wouldn’t be entirely fair to credit Die Hard entirely for the superstardom of Bruce Willis (does Moonlighting mean nothing to anyone anymore?), watching
The Lawnmower Man (1992) – Review
When is a Stephen King adaptation not a Stephen King adaptation? Probably when you can’t stretch one of his short stories to feature length and
Revenge (1990) – Review
To say that Tony Scott had an eclectic filmography is something of an understatement. Kicking off his feature career with goth vampire arthouse flick, The
Happy Gilmore (1996) – Review
I have to confess, I never really got the Sandman for a while. Being that we never really got SNL over here and I was
Sometimes They Come Back… Again (1996) – Review
As crazy as it may seem, sometimes you just run out of Stephen King books to film – or at least books that you can
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994) – Review
Depending on where you sit on the rise/fall of the spoof comedy in American cinema, the third and final cinematic outing of Leslie Nielsen’s Frank
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell Of Fear (1991) – Review
If you ever needed evidence that writing spoof comedy is like walking a razor, all you have to do is look and the microscopic differences
The Phantom (1996) – Review
OK, for a start, I don’t know who the Hell thought “Slam Evil” would be a viable tagine for a tentpole superhero – it would
Dick Tracy (1990) – Review
Passion projects, especially ones set in a more fantastical realm, rarely ever go well, but even so, Dick Tracy must have looked like a sure
Steel (1997) – Review
These were the dark times. Times long before the likes of Dark Knight Trilogies and Infinity Wars; times when Hollywood’s grasp of comic book literature
Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm (1993) – Review
In this time where fandom regularly brawls within itself about which incarnation of a property is best, I would hope that all Batman fans would
Dolly Dearest (1991) – Review
Be it via some mystical hocus pocus or just a screwed up algorithm, killer dolls have been a fixure of horror films for absolutely ages.
Sniper (1993) – Review
Cinema has always been stuffed full of ironies, but one of my favorite is that Sniper, a movie about the stealthiest of military professions, somehow
Virus (1999) – Review
Whoever first thought to have the bright idea of transporting the intergalactic terrors of Alien to the depths of the ocean must be feeling pretty
The Next Karate Kid (1994) – Review
Every now and then, a film series will deliver an entry that proves to be something called a franchise killer – an installment so despised
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