Speed (1994)
The simple, one-sentence plot: Keanu Reeves (Point Break, A Walk in the Clouds) plays LAPD SWAT officer Jack Traven, who is desperately trying to thwart a madman’s plans to explode a city bus with a bomb...
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Super Mario Bros. (1993)
Since debuting in the video game “Donkey Kong” in 1981, Mario had become a celebrity, emblazoned on lunch boxes, pajamas, underwear, bedsheets, and starring in a couple of kids’ TV shows. Polls proclaimed Mario...
Waterworld (1995)
The tag of Waterworld being Mad Max in the water is an appropriate one, as both films are set in a post-apocalyptic world full of anarchy, eccentric madmen, and vehicular mayhem. The film would become infamous for being...
10th & Wolf (2006)
Inspired by a true story (aka 99% fiction), 10th and Wolf derives its title from the names of the streets that cross in the predominantly Italian neighborhood in Philadelphia where the main characters of the...
Red Rock West (1993)
Red Rock West is an early modern-noir from one of the premiere directors in that small genre, John Dahl. It marks his second effort, coming four years after the impressive debut in the equally twisty...
EDTv (1999)
A struggling San Francisco TV station throws a Hail Mary to save themselves, wherein they will film the life of a local citizen for 24 hours a day and broadcast it live. They locate...
Blue Velvet (1986)
Here’s one of these polarizing movies you either love or hate. I guess I fit into the former category, though I must admit writer-director Lynch (Mulholland Drive, The Elephant Man) has never impressed me...
True Romance (1993)
A young comicbook dealer (Slater, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves) falls in love and marries a young call girl (Arquette, Holy Matrimony) after killing her pimp. Unfortunately, he decides to steal a half million dollars worth of cocaine...