Cop Image
Before they shocked audiences with Ebola Syndrome (1996), director Herman Yau Lai-To and actor Anthony Wong made Cop Image (1994). Cop Image, unlike the pair’s previous outing Taxi Hunter (1993),… Read more »
Tag: 1990s
Police Story 3: Supercop
Four years after the previous installment, Jackie Chan unleashed Police Story 3: Supercop (1992). Chan, Maggie Cheung and Bill Tung all reprise their roles from the earlier films with Michelle… Read more »
Doctor Mordrid
Despite some of the claims in its opening credits, Doctor Mordrid (1992) is very much indebted to the comic book Doctor Strange. In fact, Doctor Mordrid is probably the best… Read more »
The Wrong Man
Way, way back when I was in film school my favorite professor gave me a bunch of videocassettes of movies that were, at the time, quite hard to come by…. Read more »
Event Horizon
Event Horizon (1997) is a true science fiction masterpiece. The film takes an original approach to many staples of the genre and boasts a tremendous cast (Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill,… Read more »
Remembrance Of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies
John Maybury’s feature length experimental video Remembrance Of Things Fast: True Stories Visual Lies (1993) sees the filmmaker utilizing the video effects and techniques that made his music videos so… Read more »
Resurrection
Director Russell Mulcahy re-teamed with his Highlander (1986) star Christopher Lambert for the Easter themed thriller Resurrection (1999). Resurrection was an obvious exploitation of the success of Seven (1995) and,… Read more »
Super Mario Bros.
As an audience member one can either watch Super Mario Bros. (1993) with the expectation that it will be faithful to the Nintendo games or that it will embrace the… Read more »
The Peacemaker
The Peacemaker (1997) opens with the theft of ten nuclear warheads from a moving train by a rogue Russian general. To disguise the theft, the train is later derailed and… Read more »
Manny & Lo
Lisa Krueger’s Manny & Lo (1996) is an underrated gem of the independent film movement of the nineties. Scarlett Johansson, who plays the titular Manny, was only twelve when the… Read more »
