Beverly Hills Ninja (1997)
SNL alum, Chris Farley, plays Haru, who lands among a clan of ninjas when a ship he is on is shipwrecked while he is still a baby. Prophecy has foretold that a Great White...
Category: 1990s
Mute Witness (1995)
Although credited by many critics as a suspenser in the Hitchcock tradition, Mute Witness owes more to the works of Brian De Palma’s slash-and-gash homages to the Master than to Hitch himself. The film starts off...
I Love Trouble (1994)
Nick Nolte stars as Peter Brackett, Chicago’s most popular reporter, and eligible bachelor. Brackett has been coasting for years off of his own image and reputation, regurgitating his older material and trying to pass...
Short Cuts (1993)
I’d like to say that I understand what Short Cuts is all about and Altman’s intent on this vignette-style film featuring several different interconnected storylines that jump between each other every minute or two. Frankly,...
Home Alone (1990)
Perhaps the biggest surprise about Home Alone is not that it is liked by many people, especially as a movie to watch around Christmas — it’s that it would become a mega-blockbuster, shooting straight up...
PCU (1994)
As a five minute skit on a television comedy show, PCU could have been a scathingly funny take on the increasing abundance of political correctness that has been permeating college campuses across the country. As an...
Love Stinks (1999)
If it’s true that love stinks, then the makers of this film only needed to entitle this Love. The ineptitude of this motion picture is astonishing, never able to escape the sitcom situations to make...
Another Stakeout (1993)
Another Stakeout is the sequel to the hit 1987 flick Stakeout, a buddy cop movie that had a good theatrical run, and an even better one on home video. Although it would seem inevitable, it took...
The Muse (1999)
Another genial and amusing comedy by Albert Brooks, The Muse is a pleasant little diversion for fans of Brooks and light-hearted comedies in general. As usual with Brooks films, your enjoyment of the movie will greatly...
Sneakers (1992)
Sneakers is a clever, much overlooked comic thriller that shows how entertaining such films can be if done with intelligence and a commitment to its characters. Directed and co-written by Phil Alden Robinson, the man...