Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Kenneth Branagh revives a classic property and then kills it again in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, an attempt to elevate itself over previous adaptations by including the talent’s name in the title, […]
Tag Archives: 1994
Little Women (1994)
Fresh from Thelma & Louise, Susan Sarandon takes on another feminist icon as the March family matriarch in 1994’s shot at Louisa May Alcott’s classic. That Little Women has been filmed […]
#HateFilms: Forrest Gump
Back in 2014, before we had COVID or Trump or Brexit to talk about, the news included the revelation that footballer Michael Owen had only watched 8 movies in his […]
The Madness of King George
Who better to guide us through this period of self-isolated baking than Alan Bennett? Adapted from his play with the same star (Nigel Hawthorne) and director (regular collaborator Nicholas Hytner), […]
Bad Girls
Four prostitutes (Madeleine Stowe, Mary Stuart Masterson, Drew Barrymore and Andie MacDowell) go on the run after killing an assailant in this 1994 Western AKA Thelma and Louisiana. Bad Girls rounds […]
Junior
From the producer of David Cronenberg… it’s Junior! After the success of Ivan Reitman’s Twins (a title he bought from Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers project), he heard the world clamouring for […]
Interview with the Vampire
A San Francisco journalist (Christian Slater) meets with Louis (Brad Pitt), a man claiming to be a centuries old vampire. Louis recounts the remarkable tale of how he was created […]
True Lies
Harry Tasker (Arnold Schwarzenegger) leads a double life as a dull husband and super spy in 1994’s True Lies, which turned out to be truer than anyone knew in light […]
In the Mouth of Madness
Sam Neill investigates the disappearance of a popular horror novelist whose books are making people go crazy, in the third part of John Carpenter’s Apocalypse Trilogy, not to be confused […]
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 […]
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