Three Colours: White
The second part in Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Three Colours trilogy (where each film represents a principle of the French Revolution) stands for equality, and follows a divorced man (Zbigniew Zamachowski) who […]
Tag Archives: 1990s
Addams Family Values
There’s an animated Addams Family feature coming out later this year, begging the question of why you’d bother when this 1993 sequel already got them so wrong it’s right. Opening […]
Wittgenstein
Derek Jarman’s penultimate film, Wittgenstein presents the life and ideas of the great 20th-century philosopher from Vienna. It means nothing to Midge Ure but who asked him? Like Caravaggio, this […]
Face/Off
No this isn’t a film about what happens if you get on the wrong side of a chimp. It’s about a notorious gangster, Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage) and a top […]
Blue
This film from Caravaggio director Derek Jarman is an entirely blue screen over which the director talks about his experiences living with AIDs, shortly before his death the following year. […]
Frankenhooker
The oldest sci-fi novel meets the oldest profession in this 1990 horror/comedy about amateur scientist Jeffrey Franken (James Lorinz) rebuilding his dead girlfriend (Patty Mullen) after she is killed in […]
The Crow
The Crow is a comic book adaptation in which a vengeful rockstar (Brandon Lee) gets resurrected, Rolling Stones style. Released in 1994, The Crow is dedicated to its star Brandon […]
Sister Act
After witnessing a murder by her dodgy ex (Harvey Keitel), life-loving singer Deloris (Whoopi Goldberg) is sent to witness relocation in the most unlikely place possible: a convent under stern […]
The Addams Family
America’s most creepy and kooky, mysterious and spooky, chunky yet funky (or is that Latrice Royale) family hit the big screen in 1991, finding themselves the victim of a con involving […]
Matilda
Carrie meets Malcolm in the Middle in this 1996 Roald Dahl adaptation. Danny DeVito directs this tale of a telekinetic Lisa Simpson (Mara Wilson) with the same heightened physicality displayed in […]
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