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: 1994
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 […]
Muriel’s Wedding
Toni Colette is Muriel, a down-beaten young woman who fills the hole in her life with ABBA and dreams of the perfect wedding in her dead-end hometown of Porpoise Spit. Along […]
Fantastic Four (1994)
We recently reviewed After Earth, in which we concluded that the desire to humour a spoilt rich kid is not a well from which a quality film can spring. But […]
Stargate
A mysterious stone circle is dug up in Egypt and swiftly transported to America where it belongs. The US military investigaty mysterious object division enlists the help of Dr Daniel […]
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 […]
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 […]
A Spike Lee Joint: Crooklyn
In December, Spike Lee is remaking Korean sensation Oldboy, so ahead of its release I’m going to be doing a whistle stop tour of some of his films. First up, […]
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Back in July I wrote an article for the Guardian on Guy Pearce’s five best performances. As you can see from the comments I rather glaringly omitted Priscilla, Queen of the […]
Leon
After extensive recommendation I finally gave in and paid £4 for this film (about four times my usual budget), and it was worth every penny. When her family is murdered […]
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