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
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
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
Fear
Sometimes a film ages so badly, rewatching them years later almost shifts the thing into a completely different genre – take the generically named Fear
Broken Arrow
After crafting God-level action classics back in his native Hong Kong, John Woo inevitably made the leap to Hollywood after his 1992 epic Hard Boiled
Thinner
As I’ve no doubt mentioned before, when a filmmaker attempts to wrestle Stephen King’s books into a filmable format, there’s still always that fact that
Rebirth Of Mothra
While Kaiju legends such as Godzilla and Gamera racked up movie after movie in their various filmographies, other monsters had to be content playing second
Tremors 2: Aftershocks
The bittersweet nature of the direct to video sequels that assaulted movie fans during the 90’s was the very epitome of a double-edged blade –
Twister
When’s the last time you last heard anyone mention Twister? Not the weirdly erotic game that forces people to become aspiring contortionists after a couple
Hellraiser: Bloodline
If the noticably immature Hellraiser III was a timely portent that the franchise was already tipping over the edge of the abyss into the realms
Star Trek: First Contact
I think it a fair statement to say that the first cinematic voyage of the crew of the Next Generation wasn’t as auspicious as it
Daylight
Thanks to the rapidly expanding technology filmmakers were finding in their tool box, the 90’s saw an explosion of disaster movies the likes of which
Deep Impact
Man, disaster movies in the 90’s were pretty weird… Well, no – that’s slightly unfair. What I’m trying to say is that the circumstances that
The Long Kiss Goodnight
Shane Black seems to have devoted the vast majority of his career to the endless quest to make action movies into R-rated Christmas family films
Tales From The Crypt Presents: Bordello Of Blood
Back in 1995, pioneering HBO horror anthology show Tales From The Crypt decided to make the jump to the big screen with the rollicking gore
Escape From L.A.
It’s always a tough moment when you’re forced to confront the news that a beloved artist is starting to lose their touch. Whether it’s Messrs
Independence Day
There’s a wave of nostalgia that envelops certain movies that really fail to hold up when the cold, cruel light of modern day is shone
The Rock
Back in the 90’s when Hollywood producers still had the ability to restrain Michael Bay’s more absurd cinematic habits; we got bullshit-free movies like 1996’s
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