Tag: 1996

The Fan (1996) – Review

By the time The Fan rolled around in 1996, Tony Scott was in the midst of something of a creative hot streak. Reviews may not

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Ransom (1996) – Review

Once again it’s time to delve into a film from yesteryear that, thanks to the passage of time, carries a little extra baggage with it

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Fargo (1996) – Review

In the world of the crime movie, nothing hits quite like a series of unfortunate, criminal events like a Coen Brothers film. In fact, they’d

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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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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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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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Bad Moon (1996) – Review

Lycanthropes seemed to hit a peak in the 80s thanks to a trifecta of classics that each put the classic creature on a leash and

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Last Man Standing (1996) – Review

What is it about Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo that demands that it got numerous remakes in other forms? Well, that’s an easy question to answer: it’s

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Space Truckers (1996) – Review

Despite bursting onto the horror scene with a gaggle of winningly extreme gorefests in the mid 80s, Stuart Gordon had a rather strange affinity for

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Darkman III: Die Darkman Die (1996) – Review

The main problem with studios employing a buy one get one free approach with sequel making (ie. making two follow ups back to back) is

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Nemesis 4: Cry Of Angels (1996) – Review

It’s truly remarkable to me that Albert Pyun managed to get so much mileage out of his Nemesis franchise despite a noticable lack of talent

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Nemesis 3: Time Lapse (1996) – Review

If nothing else, the existence of Nemesis 3: Time Lapse (aka. Nemesis 3: Prey Harder), proves that Albert Pyun had a sense of tenaciousness that

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The Crow: City Of Angels (1996) – Review

Sequelizing the goth-tastic, 1994, comic book movie The Crow was never going to an easy task, especially since the movie achieved mythic status after the

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Children Of The Corn IV: The Gathering (1996) – Review

How the hell does one even begin to review a film like Children Of The Corn IV?Do I roll up my sleeves and tear it

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Titanic (1996) – Review

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

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Executive Decision (1996) – Review

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

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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

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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.”.

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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

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