Nightbreed
In Clive Barker’s Nightbreed, Boone (Craig Sheffer) dreams of and ultimately discovers the lost city of Midian, where monsters dwell beneath a graveyard. The film’s editorial history boils down to […]
Tag Archives: 1990
Days of Being Wild
An abusive womaniser (the late Leslie Cheung) leaves Hong Kong in search of his birth mother in the Philippines in Wong Kar-wai’s second feature. If As Tears Go By was a […]
I’ve Never Seen… Home Alone
Around this time of year people are surprised to learn I’ve never seen Home Alone, to which I counter that I have walked past a Jo Malone. This 1990 child […]
#HateFilms: Ghost
In 2014 Michael Owen tweeted that he’d only seen 8 films. And if you think that’s weird you should see Ghost. The late Patrick Swayze is a ghost in this […]
Total Recall
Bored construction worker Douglas Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger) seeks a quick thrill with memory implants of a spy adventure on Mars. But when the procedure goes wrong, Quaid realises he’s actually […]
Kindergarten Cop
Arnold Schwarzenegger goes undercover as a preschool teacher to find a dangerous criminal in Kindergarten Cop, the opposite of 2017’s Aftermath in which he tracks down a man in witness […]
Hamlet (1990)
Mel Gibson goes mad in this cinematic version of perhaps the most quoted and adapted of Shakespeare’s tragedies. Where films like The Banquet and The Bad Sleep Well took Hamlet into […]
Predator 2
Released in 1990 but set in 1997 for no discernible reason, Predator 2 follows an LAPD officer (Danny Glover) staking out a turf war between rival drug cartels. And occasionally […]
Quiz Call: Three Men and a Little Lady
Three Men and a Little Lady might seem like the perfect unguessable answer but the producers obviously didn’t count on people watching Quiz Call precisely because they just watched the […]
Goodfellas
A bunch of low-level crooks behave terribly for two and a half hours. While the subject matter, title and running time suggests a Godfather-style crime epic, Goodfellas is actually every […]
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