Escape from New York (1981)
Escape from New York is set in a future 1997, during a time when, after the crime rate has skyrocketed out of control, the island of Manhattan has been turned into an ultra-maximum security...
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Alien (1979)
A benchmark science fiction film, Alien is a simple premise but given profound and complex treatment. It’s also one of the scariest horror films of it (or any) era, and though its Oscar-winning visual effects...
Pretty in Pink (1986)
The 1980s were full of “wrong side of the tracks” romances, from Valley Girl to Say Anything, and in Pretty in Pink, screenwriter John Hughes (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Mr. Mom) tells the story from the perspective of a lower-class...
Down Periscope (1996)
Down Periscope is a comedy without laughs. It’s goofy, light, and amiable, but it’s just not funny. It’s so unfunny, it is actually painful to see just how hard they try to be funny and...
The Green Mile (1999)
After creating what was, in my opinion, the best film of the Nineties in his first time at the helm, now years later writer-director Frank Darabont has the impossible task of topping himself in...
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
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...