Alien 3 (1992)
First-time director David Fincher’s debut proves to be a daunting, if not impossible task, not only because it would be highly impractical to match or best two of the most acclaimed and popular science fiction...
Category: 1990s
Days of Thunder (1990)
Racing footage = good, drama = bad. This is about as short as the review of Days of Thunder needs to be, in this very disappointing misfire from the crew that brought you Top Gun, producer Jerry...
A Night at the Roxbury (1998)
Based on the long-recurring skit on “Saturday Night Live”, Will Ferrell (Austin Powers, Men Seeking Women) and Chris Kattan (Monkeybone, Corky Romano) play club-hopping brothers, Steve and Doug Butabi, who like to bob their heads and...
Arachnophobia (1990)
Like most films produced by Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment (Gremlins 2, Back to the Future Part III), Arachnophobia is fun cross-genre fare, aiming for every age bracket and, if nothing else, succeeding in being just entertaining enough...
Thelma & Louise (1991)
Thelma Dickinson (Davis, Quick Change) and Louise Sawyer (Sarandon, White Palace) are two Arkansas women stuck in stagnant relationships, who decide to finally do something fun for themselves when they go on a two-day fishing trip, or so...
Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999)
The Phantom Menace marks the first new Star Wars theatrical feature in over 15 years, and it seems the fans that watched the earlier films as children have now grown up to adulthood. As a consequence, not...
Dave (1993)
Kevin Kline (Consenting Adults, Silverado) plays a dual role, one as the President of the United States, Bill Mitchell, and one as temp agency coordinator and Presidential look-alike, Dave Kovic. Dave is sought after and...
Goodfellas (1990)
Characterizations are the key to this fantastic mob story, perhaps only rivaled by The Godfather as the best of them all. Violent, compelling, daring and rich, Scorsese (The King of Comedy, The Last Waltz) crafts Nicholas Pileggi’s...
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Surely there is very real and very convincing data that the planet cannot survive the excesses of the human race: the proliferation of atomic devices, uncontrolled breeding habits, the rape of the environment, the...
Ransom (1996)
Mel Gibson (Lethal Weapon 2 & 3) stars as multimillionaire Tom Mullen, who built his airline fortune from the ground up. Despite allegations that he paid off people in order to stay in his business, he...