Wing Commander
I have never been much of a video game person. I grew up in the days of the Nintendo Entertainment System through to the days of the Nintendo 64. Since… Read more »
Tag: 1990s
Mission: Impossible
With Mission: Impossible-Dead Reckoning Part I (2023) out everyone is talking about Tom Cruise and his stunts. At some point after John Woo’s ill-fated outing in the franchise Tom Cruise… Read more »
Undefeatable
Cynthia Rothrock stars as Kristi Jones, leader of the street fighting gang The Red Dragons, who teams up with Detective Nick DiMarco (John Miller) to catch the serial killer Stingray… Read more »
I Know What You Did Last Summer
In 1997 Sarah Michelle Gellar solidified her “Scream Queen” status with an appearance in Scream 2, playing the title role on Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and co-starring in I Know… Read more »
Gettysburg
July 3rd, 2023 marks the one-hundred and sixtieth anniversary of Pickett’s charge at the Battle Of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. July 3rd was the third and final day… Read more »
Cop Land
Cop Land (1997) is writer/director James Mangold’s reimagining of the gritty New Hollywood cop film as a pulpy film noir. The plot is pure pulp, the execution all grit and… Read more »
Lady Battle Cop
Akihisa Okamoto’s film Lady Battle Cop (1990) is everything one could want or expect from vintage Japanese V-Cinema. Lady Battle Cop is violent, campy, low-budget, and over the top. It… Read more »
Drop Dead Fred
If you grew up watching Drop Dead Fred (1991) you got lost in the fantasy hijinks of the singular Rik Mayall totally unaware of the very real ramifications of Phoebe… Read more »
The Last Of The Mohicans
Between the masterpieces Manhunter (1986) and Heat (1995), director Michael Mann made The Last Of The Mohicans (1992). Mann teamed with fellow Miami Vice director Christopher Crowe to pen the… Read more »
Rage & Honor
Rage & Honor (1992) follows Cynthia Rothrock as Det. Fairchild of the L.A.P.D. as she assists Australian cop Preston Michaels (Richard Norton) in clearing his name of a murder he… Read more »
