Independence Day
Will Smith encounters alien life in this Scientologist origin story from 1996. Roland Emmerich’s alien-invasion blockbuster has all the spectacle, subtlety and American flags one expects from the Master of […]
Tag Archives: 1990s
Pretty Woman
Millionaire loner Edward (Richard Gere) hires charismatic sex worker Vivian (Julia Roberts) in this 1990 rom-com they should have called My Fare Lady. Pretty Woman is a lot more charming […]
Emma
Gwyneth Paltrow swaps the incense for incest in this 1996 adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel about a spoiled white woman spouting bad lifestyle advice and lauding her privilege over everyone […]
Entrapment
Attempting to track down a stolen Rembrandt, young insurance investigator Gin (Catherine Zeta-Jones) has her head turned by another artefact when she falls for elderly art thief Mac (Sean Connery), […]
All About My Mother
A nun, an actress and a sex worker walk into a Barcelona in All About My Mother, Pedro Almodóvar’s Oscar-winning drama from 1999. Another Spanish twist on his beloved Old […]
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
One year on from the massacre of I Know What You Did Last Summer, the evil fisherman is back in a futile attempt to reclaim his perch as the most […]
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Four teenagers (Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe and Freddie Prinze Jr.) accidentally run someone over and dump his body in the ocean in this 1997 slasher they should have called […]
Event Horizon
On a rescue mission to recover a spaceship in orbit around Neptune, a crew of astronauts discover the dangers of venturing beyond Uranus. A box office disaster and subsequent cult […]
Arachnophobia
After moving from San Francisco to a small-town barnhouse, an arachnophobic doctor (Jeff Daniels) gets a house call from a deadly spider that spawns in his wine cellar, turning his […]
Cure
An amnesiac (Masato Hagiwara) uses a cigarette lighter to hypnotise people in this Japanese thriller they should have called Silence of the Lambert & Butler. The 1997 neo-noir has shades of Se7en […]
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