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Tag: 1997

Speed 2: Cruise Control

May 1, 2022 greigzilla

Jan De Bont’s 1994 thriller, Speed, is one of the greatest examples of the 90’s actioner that exists despite not featuring Nicolas Cage and it

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Rebirth Of Mothra II

March 17, 2022 greigzilla

After making her/his long awaited return to solo adventures in 1996 with Rebirth Of Mothra, the most benevolent bug this side of that ant from

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Jackie Brown

March 9, 2022 greigzilla

To paraphrase Calvin Candie from Django Unchained, with Reservoir Dogs, Quentin Tarantino had our curiosity, but with the release of Pulp Fiction in 1994, he

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Tromeo And Juliet

February 11, 2022 greigzilla

It’s not every Shakespearean adaption you see that starts with the immortal form of Lemmy from Motorhead standing in the middle of Times Square, impassively

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Volcano

February 3, 2022 greigzilla

During that mad rush in the 90’s where filmmakers rushed to take advantage of state of the art digital technology to realise every cinematic wet

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The Relic

December 23, 2021 greigzilla

Sometimes, nothing warms my cockles more than a good, old fashioned monster movie, and in the dying years of the 20th century I guess a

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Mortal Kombat: Annihilation

January 31, 2021 greigzilla

For a while back there, Paul W. Anderson’s hyper active video game adaptation Mortal Kombat was the gold standard for a genre pummeled by the

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Spawn

December 20, 2020 greigzilla

Joel Schumacher’s much maligned 1997 war crime, Batman & Robin, is often touted as one of the worst comic book movies of the modern age.

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The Night Flier

November 17, 2020 greigzilla

As mentioned ad nauseam; Stephen King adaptations come in all shapes and sizes. From maxi-sized mini series to star-strewn, high profile block busters, the author’s

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The Lost World: Jurassic Park

July 13, 2020 greigzilla

If you ever needed an example of how truly brilliant Steven Spielberg is you would have to look no further than 1993.Why is that year

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Scream 2

July 11, 2020 greigzilla

With the rousing success of Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson’s Scream, a film that attached jumper cables to the nascent slasher genre and juiced it

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Scream

July 8, 2020 greigzilla

By the mid nineties the horror genre was practically dead on it’s feet. Not shuffling around zombie dead you understand, but bleeding out, stabbed multiple

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A Bug’s Life

May 28, 2020 greigzilla

Sandwiched between the impressive, plaything-themed one-two punch of the first two Toy Story movies, it’s fair to say that 1998’s A Bug’s Life has become

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Men In Black

May 11, 2020 greigzilla

It’s a fairly accurate comment to say that the summer season of 1997 was somewhat bloated, but when you dig into the list of offenders

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Anaconda

September 15, 2019 greigzilla

To quote Sir Mix-a-lot, surely one of the finest bards of our time: “My anaconda don’t want none less you got buns hun’.”Truly inspiring words

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Batman And Robin

August 27, 2019 greigzilla

Here it is ladies and germs, the movie that’s regarded as one of the worst of the modern age. A film that brought a screeching

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Starship Troopers

October 21, 2018 greigzilla

After giving deleriously bullet drenched, 80’s face lifts to cyberpunk (Robocop, Total Recall), Paul Verhoeven’s third highly satirical, stunningly violent science fiction epic may just

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Face/Off

October 9, 2018 greigzilla

Action maestro John Woo’s much touted leap from his native Hong Kong to the shores of American filmmaking hadn’t really produced everything we’d hoped back

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Con Air

May 9, 2018 greigzilla

Is there a more quintessential 90’s action movie than Con Air? I don’t mean the best, although it’s definitely top tier. Oh sure, Speed is

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Alien: Resurrection

April 26, 2018 greigzilla

Surely an Alien movie from the director of Delicatessen and City Of The Lost Children and written by Joss Whedon has GOT to be a

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