Danny has been sent to boarding school, in this sequel to The Year My Voice Broke. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1990s
Hazy Life AKA Donten seikatsu (1999) Nobuhiro Yamashita, Uda Teppei, Hiroshi Yamamoto
Tsutomu meets Kee outside a Pachinko hall. The two strike up an unlikely friendship. Read More »
Sara (1997) Maciej Slesicki, Boguslaw Linda, Agnieszka Wlodarczyk, Cezary Pazura
Leon, the 40-year-old former soldier who is an alcoholic now, gets a job as a bodyguard. Read More »
Ridicule (1996) Patrice Leconte, Charles Berling, Jean Rochefort, Fanny Ardant
In the periwigged and opulent France of Louis XVI, an unwitting nobleman soon discovers that survival at court demands both a razor wit and an acid tongue. Read More »
Hudson Hawk (1991) Michael Lehmann, Bruce Willis, Danny Aiello, Andie MacDowell
Thief extraordinaire Hudson Hawk (Bruce Willis) has just been released from prison and all he wants is a nice cappuccino. Read More »
Dracula in Vegas (1999) Nick Millard, Maximillian Grabinger, April Leigh, Frances Millard
A young, German vampire arrives in Las Vegas in order to put the bite on unsuspecting showgirls and hookers. Read More »
Braindead (1992) Peter Jackson, Timothy Balme, Diana Peñalver, Elizabeth Moody
Lionel, a Mama’s boy has the unwanted honor of having to look after his overbearingly evil mother. Read More »
Eight Hundred Leagues Down the Amazon (1993) Luis Llosa, Daphne Zuniga, Tom Verica, Barry Bostwick
Outlaw Joam Garral makes a clandestine journey down the crocodile and piranha infested Amazon river to attend his daughter’s marriage. Read More »
That’s Entertainment! III (1994) Bud Friedgen, Michael J. Sheridan, Debbie Reynolds, Gene Kelly, Ann Miller
The editors on the first two compilations celebrating MGM musicals surpassed those two features Read More »
Switch (1991) Blake Edwards, Ellen Barkin, Jimmy Smits, JoBeth Williams
Steve Brooks is a sexist and the prototype macho. Unfortunately one day he is killed by one of his girlfriends. Read More »
Hold Me and Kiss Me AKA Watashi o daite soshite kisu shite (1992) Jun’ya Satô, Yôko Minamino, Hidekazu Akai, Tomokazu Miura
Kieko’s life is turned upside down when she discovers that she has been infected with HIV. Read More »
The Browning Version (1994) Mike Figgis, Albert Finney, Greta Scacchi, Matthew Modine
Andrew Crocker-Harris is an embittered and disliked teacher of Greek and Latin at a British public school. Read More »
Tokiwa: The Manga Apartment AKA Tokiwa-so no seishun (1996) Jun Ichikawa, Masahiro Motoki, Sadao Abe, Satoko Abe
A look at the youthful beginnings of manga giants Motoo Abiko, aka Fujiko Fujio, Fujio Akatsuka Read More »
Snakes and Ladders (1996) Trish McAdam, Pom Boyd, Gina Moxley, Sean Hughes
A wry story of female friendship: Jean and Kate, two “nearing-thirty” street performers Read More »
Mister Johnson (1990) Bruce Beresford, Pierce Brosnan, Edward Woodward, Maynard Eziashi
A decade after he broke through with Breaker Morant, Australian director Bruce Beresford made another acclaimed film Read More »