The Client
The Client is about an 11-year-old boy from a deprived family who witnesses the suicide of a mob lawyer. He in turn becomes a target of the mob as a […]
Tag Archives: 1990s
Star Trek: Insurrection
In the ninth Star Trek film, the crew of the Enterprise pursue a malfunctioning Data (Brent Spiner) to the planet of the Ba’ku, a racially homogeneous society that have shunned technology […]
Star Trek: Generations
This is the handover film in the Trek franchise where the reins are passed from the ageing Captain Kirk to sprightly, young Captain Picard. Set about 80 years after the end of The […]
Star Trek V: The Final Front Ear
Shortly after the end of The Voyage Home, recently demoted Captain Kirk is on shore leave with McCoy and Spock while a new Enterprise is kitted out. Then there’s a […]
Mission: Impossible
Tom Cruise is here doing what he does best: running around beating up bad guys. The troubled megastar plays a troubled secret ops bloke, Ethan Hunt, whose team gets wiped […]
Raising Cain
To paraphrase my co-Goblin Dan, “Brian De Palma totally kisses Alfred Hitchcock’s butt”. I said in my recent review of Dressed to Kill that it was in many ways an extension of […]
The Fifth Element
In the distant past, alien protectors came to earth to defend it in times of emergency, but have remained hidden for millennia. Now, in the future, humans are in need as they […]
Stigmata
Stigmata is part of a noble tradition of movies that exploit religious imagery for a cheap thrill. Whether it’s End of Days, Drag Me to Hell, The Devil’s Advocate, or […]
Instinct
Anthony Hopkins is an incarcerated doctor with a violent past, surprising physical strength and a penchant for drawing. An ambitious youngster (Cuba Gooding Jr) is sent in to do a psychiatric evaluation, […]
Barton Fink
Barton Fink (John Turturro) is a struggling play-write in 1940s Los Angeles. When he’s commissioned to write a wrestling movie, he finds the transition to the big screen hard, spending his days pondering […]
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