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
Tag: 1990s
The People Under The Stairs (1991) – Review
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 (1996) – Review
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 (1996) – Review
“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! (1996) – Review
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 (1995) – Review
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 (1998) – Review
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 (1992) – Review
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 (1992) – Review
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 (1993) – Review
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 (1992) – Review
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 (1995) – Review
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 (1997) – Review
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 (1993) – Review
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 (1990) – Review
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
The Resurrected (1991) – Review
Notorious horror author H.P. Lovecraft and sreenwriter/director Dan O’Bannon both had a lot in common; not only did both men change the very face of
Killer Crocodile 2 (1990) – Review
Looking back over my previous review of Fabrizio De Angelis’ original Killer Crocodile, I was stunned to see I’d given it a whopping three stars
Pulp Fiction (1994) – Review
What would you consider to be the ultimate Quentin Tarantino movie – not necessarily the best, but the one movie from the auteur’s filmography that
Fear (1996) – Review
Sometimes a film ages so badly, rewatching them years later almost shifts the thing into a completely different genre – take the generically named Fear
The Mangler (1995) – Review
It’s probably best to employ a certain level of subtle sophistication when approaching a Stephen King adaptation with the intent of turning his many, many
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