Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm
I often hear heated debates amongst my friends about Batman. Questions are posed to discriminate casual fans from the die-hard fans that know who Doctor Double X is. Many of these… Read more »
Tag: 1990s
Samson & Delilah
In spite of being a TNT production, Samson & Delilah (1996) still bears a few of the hallmarks of Nicolas Roeg’s inimitable style. However budget constraints and shooting conditions seem… Read more »
The Game
David Fincher’s second film The Game (1997) works better as an investigation of the psychological effects of what is essentially a mid-life crisis than it does as a thriller. The most… Read more »
Nobody’s Fool
“You’re a man among men” – Toby Roebuck (Melanie Griffith in Nobody’s Fool) People don’t really talk about great Thanksgiving Day movies. There’s so much fuss over Halloween, and Christmas… Read more »
Clifford
Back in the day, Clifford (1994) was one of the films I rented most often from Pathmark (back when grocery stores rented VHS tapes). It’s always been a favorite film… Read more »
Small Soldiers
In the wake of Disney’s Toy Story (1995), DreamWorks released Joe Dante’s Small Soldiers (1998). Where Toy Story offered its audiences only superficial sensations of nostalgia, Small Soldiers delivers a scathing parody of Corporate… Read more »
Fire Birds
As one of the many Top Gun (1986) imitators to come out of Hollywood in the late eighties and early nineties Fire Birds (1990) doesn’t rate so badly. Compared to… Read more »
She’s So Lovely
“Diseased. A freak. Totally screwed, put together with spit and shit and honey. Impossible to figure, nutty, mean, selfish, crazy, creepy, sick, weak. On a scale of ten million, she’s… Read more »
Island Of Dr. Moreau
Richard Stanley has been making a comeback of sorts with his best film yet, Color Out Of Space (2019), so I decided to revisit the film that once derailed his… Read more »
Species
Species (1995) and Nemesis (1992) are two films that I grew up with and associate very strongly with the VHS format. There’s something about movies like Species, the sleazy kind… Read more »
