Fools Rush In
Andy Tennant has made a career out of directing safe, family friendly romantic comedies. Fools Rush In (1997), his second feature film, establishes the generic tropes and television oriented sensibility… Read more »
Andy Tennant has made a career out of directing safe, family friendly romantic comedies. Fools Rush In (1997), his second feature film, establishes the generic tropes and television oriented sensibility… Read more »
Part homage to fifties robot movies, part softcore erotic film and one hundred percent campy adventure flick; Jamie Luk Kin-ming’s Robotrix (1991) is one of a kind, even by Hong… Read more »
Roger Michell’s Notting Hill (1999) is the ultimate homage to Julia Roberts. In the nineties Julia Roberts was the pinnacle of the Hollywood leading lady and Notting Hill plays with… Read more »
Spike Lee’s Summer Of Sam (1999) charts the effects that David Berkowitz’s reign of terror has on a community in the Bronx. Lee weaves together a number of narratives as… Read more »
In Cold Heaven (1991) director Nicolas Roeg explores again themes of the supernatural, faith and adultery, utilizing his signature brand of cross-cutting. Allan Scott, who wrote a total of five… Read more »
I have never been the biggest Clint Eastwood fan, particularly when it comes to the films he has directed. Eastwood’s style as a filmmaker is classical, intentionally recalling the films… Read more »
Even as a kid I knew that Operation Dumbo Drop (1995) wasn’t as good as Angels In The Outfield (1994), even though it did sport some superior product placement (… Read more »
In 1993 Schwarzenegger had Last Action Hero and Stallone had Demolition Man. Both films satirized the action blockbusters that these two actors dominated in the eighties while also, tongue in… Read more »
Un cœur en hiver (1992) was Claude Sautet’s penultimate film. With this and Nelly et Monsieur Arnaud (1995) Sautet had reached the pinnacle of his powers as a filmmaker. Sautet’s… Read more »
Back in the nineties Stephen Sommers had a reputation for revitalizing genre pictures. The combination of snappy dialogue and left field plot twists were hallmarks of Sommers films, particularly the… Read more »