Tag: 1990s

Leprechaun 3 (1995) – Review

Gimmicks you’ll need, and gimmicks there’ll be; especially when you get to Leprechaun 3.Yep, by only the third episode, the continuing adventures of Warwick Davis’

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Ringu (1998) – Review

Picture the scene. The horror genre is once again growing stale as the recent resurgence of slasher movies is already burning out. It’s obviously that

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Innocent Blood (1992) – Review

When it comes to the all time king of spectacular movie concepts that didn’t quite come off, surely squatting awfully close to the throne has

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Puppet Master III: Toulon’s Revenge (1991) – Review

There comes a time when a franchise must realise that once it has “perfected” it’s basic premise (or at least has taken it as far

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The General’s Daughter (1999) – Review

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

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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