Magnolia (1999)
Without a doubt, Magnolia is my personal pick for best film of 1999, and if it weren’t or The Shawshank Redemption, I’d say it was the best film of the 1990s. No, it wasn’t nominated for an...
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Boogie Nights (1997)
Although Boogie Nights isn’t his first film, this is Paul Thomas Anderson’s (Punch-Drunk Love, Magnolia) breakthrough and the first exposure many of us may have to his fine work. As evidenced within the film and also in...
The End of the Affair (1999)
Based on the novel by Graham Greene, set in 1946 London. Maurice (Fiennes) is a struggling novelist who meets Henry (Rea), a man now married to his ex-lover Sarah (Moore). The two former lovers discover...
Cookie’s Fortune (1999)
The elderly Jewel “Cookie” Mae (Neal, Hud) misses her husband so much, she kills herself to be with him. One of her daughters hides the suicide note and plants evidence of murder, because no one in...
Psycho (1998)
Treading on some serious hallowed ground here, folks. Director Gus Van Sant decides he wants the certain fruitless endeavor of remaking a masterpiece. Talk about doomed from the start! A secretary is entrusted with...
An Ideal Husband (1999)
An ambitious creme de la creme politician (Northam, The Winslow Boy) sees all he owns (including his wife (Blanchett, Elizabeth) in limbo when the conniving ex-wife (Moore, Cookie’s Fortune) of someone he worked for blackmails him with a letter...
The Big Lebowski (1998)
An out-of-work amateur bowler (Bridges) gets mistaken for a wealthy business man due to having the same last name and becomes embroiled in a quagmire of trouble when the rich Lebowski’s daughter gets kidnapped and...
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Unlike author Michael Crichton’s “Jurassic Park” novel, the 1993 Universal Pictures film adaptation was built with sequels in mind. Whereas the novel wiped out the dinosaurs in the end, Spielberg kept them alive, as...