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
Tag: 1997
Rebirth Of Mothra II
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
Jackie Brown
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
Tromeo And Juliet
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
Volcano
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
The Relic
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
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
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
Spawn
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.
The Night Flier
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
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
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
Scream 2
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
Scream
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
A Bug’s Life
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
Men In Black
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
Anaconda
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
Batman And Robin
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
Starship Troopers
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
Face/Off
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
Con Air
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
Alien: Resurrection
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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