Tales From The Crypt – Season 5, Episode 1: Death Of Some Salesmen (1993) – Review

Another year brings us to yet another season of Tales From The Crypt, and despite a couple of last season wobbles, I’ll think you’d agree

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Falling Down (1993) – Review

Ah yes, the 90s. A time where you could still have a wide release, blockbuster movie with big stars and an established director that wasn’t

Menace II Society (1993) – Review

The early 90s were the home of a number of determined filmmakers making ferocious debuts that stripped away the gloss amd excess of the 80s

Puppet Master 4 (1993) – Review

When it comes to turning over a new leaf, nothing helps you whip up a new, heroic persona faster than targeting Nazis in 1941. Thus

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

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

The Fugitive (1993) – Review

For quite a while there, Harrison Ford was regarded as the everyman hero in American cinema for round about twenty years or so which, when

Ninja Scroll (1993) – Review

There was always something delightfully anti-social about some of the anime released in the 80s and 90s. I mean, what could be more counter-culture (and

Trauma (1993) – Review

It’s something of a common fact about the career of Dario Argento that Italy’s master of horror saw something of a drop off in quality

Warlock: The Armageddon (1993) – Review

Back in 1989 we got Warlock, a surprisingly over-achieving, time travelling horror/comedy that saw Julian Sands and Richard E. Grant do battle in a centuries

True Romance (1993) – Review

Back when Quentin Tarantino was only one movie deep into his two-film conquest of Hollywood, the assault was carried on in his stead by a

Night Terrors (1993) – Review

There’s a common belief that the quality control of Tobe Hooper took a brisk march off a cliff after the release of his blockbusting, Spielbergian

American Ninja 5 (1993) – Review

Regardless of your feelings about action cinema’s most blatant act of cultural appropriation, there’s something deeply impressive about the fact that this legendarily childish franchise

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) – Review

As a rule, fantasy movies set at Christmas are usually cuddly, fluffy affairs with all the usual tropes delivered wrapped in a nice, safe, unthreatening

Cliffhanger (1993) – Review

There’s something about 90s action movies that hit a little different. Maybe it’s because the notion of the high concept, single sentence pitch was at

Body Snatchers (1993) – Review

The earlier, cinematic versions of Jack Finney’s Invasion Of The Body Snatchers are as vital and important as any science fiction film released in their

Body Bags (1993) – Review

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

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

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

Return Of The Living Dead 3 (1993) – Review

Dan O’Bannon’s original Return Of The Living Dead has one of the most interesting tones of any horror films of the 80’s. Mixing dark wit

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