Sometimes work doesn’t have to be work, y’know, and it’s always nice every now and then to blow off some steam by screwing around with
Tag: 1990s
True Lies
Never let it be said that James Cameron isn’t a man who doesn’t test his limitations – and I’m not just talking about him bankrolling
Titanic
After legendary stories of ballooning costs, technical issues and the fact that someone spiked the catering with LSD, movie pundits back in 1997 famously predicted
Executive Decision
Some films just age weird.Some simply have some social norms and behaviours that have regrettably aged like milk while others find that their plots end
Memoirs Of An Invisible Man
At the time it was released, virtually forgotten, 90’s sci-fi comedy Memoirs Of An Invisible Man was criticised that maybe John Carpenter wasn’t exactly the
Sleepy Hollow
After his crazed satire Mars Attacks! crashed and burned at the box office and his proposed Superman movie flew headlong into the sun, Tim Burton
The People Under The Stairs
With a filmography that contains razor-fingered dream demons, desert dwelling cannibal clans and ghost-faced pop culture maniacs, it’s a legitimate shame that more positive press
The Frighteners
Between Peter Jackson’s origins with his homegrown, DIY, gore comedies and his cinema conquering days thanks to the herculean task of realising The Lord Of
From Dusk Till Dawn
“Everybody be cool.” swaggers George Clooney’s impossibly charismatic career criminal, directly into the camera, near the start of From Dusk Till Dawn, “You, be cool.”.
Mars Attacks!
Sometimes satire ages like wine, waiting patiently for our tastes and perceptions to catch up so we’ll eventually savour its matured taste. Mature is hardly
Children Of The Corn III: Urban Harvest
The endless influx of direct to DVD sequels that assaulted video stores during the 90’s led to many a drab, bland entry that kept numerous
Universal Soldier II: Brothers In Arms
When Jean Claude Van Damme’s Luc Devreaux hit the “on” button on the farming equipment that Dolph Lundgren’s deranged Sergeant Andrew Scott was impaled on
Children Of The Corn II: The Final Sacrifice
The sometimes spotty track record of Stephen King adaptations is one thing, but if you really want to trawl the bottom of the barrel when
Police Story III: Supercop
Regularly touted as one of the greatest action movies ever made, I have to confess that the third entry into Jackie Chan’s ground breaking Police
Nowhere To Run
By the early nineties, the stock of Jean Claude Van Damme had risen to the point where he now was an acceptable draw at the
Universal Soldier
It wasn’t until 2010’s The Expendables that 80’s action titans Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone finally stood together in the same movie that wasn’t counting
Waterworld
There’s always a stigma that clings to a film like a barnacal if it flops and it was especially true in the 90’s. If your
Event Horizon
I’ve been repeatedly harsh on the output of Paul W.S. Anderson thanks to his seemingly never ending stream of empty video game adaptations and vapid
Necronomicon
While there has been many adaptations filmed from the eldritch works of Rhode Island’s grumpiest son, H.P. Lovecraft, possibly one of the most deranged may
Spontaneous Combustion
As the imaginative excesses of the 80’s drew to a close, the established, iconic horror directors of the era that had seen their careers flourish
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