54 (1998)
Studio 54 was the hottest club in NYC during the late 70s disco era. 54 is a slice of life tale of a young and naive man’s (Phillippe) indoctrination into the decadent and drug-filled life as...
Studio 54 was the hottest club in NYC during the late 70s disco era. 54 is a slice of life tale of a young and naive man’s (Phillippe) indoctrination into the decadent and drug-filled life as...
by Vincent Leo · Published November 27, 1998 · Last modified February 14, 2019
A former beauty queen (Bullock, The Net) learns of her husband’s infidelity with her best friend on a talk show, and runs off to her small hometown in Texas to live with her mother after sinking...
The story is simple. The images will last forever. Due to the devastating news that three out of four brothers have died during WWII, the US military decide to send a troop into hostile...
1930s / Adventure / Comedy / Mystery / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published November 23, 1998 · Last modified December 3, 2019
Robert Donat plays Richard Hannay, a Canadian visiting London who travels to a local show. Gunshots erupt, and during the mad dash for the exits, he bumps into a woman (Mannheim), asking to go...
by Vincent Leo · Published November 23, 1998 · Last modified January 22, 2019
A man involved in a near fatal car accident becomes a wheelchair-ridden paraplegic, and through his strong desire for voyeurism and some cheap entertainment watches his neighbors though his second story Soho apartment. In...
by Vincent Leo · Published November 22, 1998 · Last modified February 27, 2019
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is am attempt at a very literal film translation of the infamous 1971 novel by Hunter S. Thompson relating his drug-induced hallucinatory trip through Las Vegas when trying to cover...
by Vincent Leo · Published November 20, 1998 · Last modified February 20, 2019
…and I still don’t care what you did last summer. Julie (Hewitt), one of the survivors from the first film, tries to get herself together but is still having nightmares about her traumatic experience with...
by Vincent Leo · Published November 19, 1998 · Last modified February 18, 2019
This is Spinal Tap is a documentary — er, a rockumentary — er, a mockumentary — well… It’s a parody of a documentary based on a fictitious British heavy metal band called Spinal Tap. Rob...
A couple of teens in upstate New York go horseback riding in the snow one day, when disaster strikes in the form of a semi and kills one of the girls and severely wounds...
Bill Murray plays an annoying American video store clerk who travels to England to visit his brother (Gallagher) on his birthday. The brother does not want him botching an important business meeting with his presence,...
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