Jingle All The Way
Chris Columbus always had success with Christmas movies. He penned Gremlins (1984) and directed the first two Home Alone movies. Then came Jingle All The Way (1996) and all of… Read more »
Tag: 1990s
Trapped In Paradise
Trapped In Paradise (1994) belongs with other Nicolas Cage comedies of the nineties such as Honeymoon In Vegas (1992), Amos & Andrew (1993), Guarding Tess and It Could Happen To… Read more »
The Hours & Times
In 1963 John Lennon went on holiday with Brian Epstein in Barcelona. Cynthia Lennon had just given birth to John’s son Julian. In less than a year’s time The Beatles… Read more »
Kekko Kamen
Kekko Kamen (1991) is a live-action adaptation by Go Nagai of his own manga series of the same name. Kakko Kamen is both campy and satirical; an ironically erotic adventure… Read more »
The Hot Spot
Just about every ten years Dennis Hopper made one genuine masterpiece. First there was the formally avant-garde The Last Movie (1971), followed by the gritty drama Out Of The Blue… Read more »
Kite
Yasuomi Umetsu’s Kite (1998) is a three part OVA that has subsequently been edited and released as a single feature film. As an OVA Kite wasn’t subject to the same… Read more »
Irma Vep
Olivier Assayas’ Irma Vep (1996) is something of a contemporary classic. I love the idea that a French filmmaker would watch The Heroic Trio (1993) on LaserDisc and cast Maggie… Read more »
Body Snatchers
Robert H. Solo followed up his 1978 production of Invasion Of The Body Snatchers with the quasi-sequel/remake Body Snatchers (1993). Body Snatchers wasn’t the hit its more famous predecessors were,… Read more »
Def By Temptation
Def By Temptation (1990) is a peculiar film to have been released by Troma Films. This all Black, highly stylized horror film by James Bond III is a one of… Read more »
Deep Blue Sea
If you lived through the nineties you may never have seen Deep Blue Sea (1999) but you undoubtedly heard Deepest Bluest (Shark’s Fin) by LL Cool J. This theme song… Read more »
