A young scientific whiz (Mikey LeBeau) virtually single-handedly defeats corporate mercernaries who take his family hostage to get a blueprint for a top secret super-fast computer chip. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1990s
Shanghai jiaqi / My American Grandson (1991) Ann Hui, Kun-Hsuan Huang, Carina Lau, Peng Sun, Drama
A 12-year-old boy from America experiences the clash of cultures and the generation gap when he visits his grandfather in Shanghai. Read More »
Secret défense / Secret Defense (1998) Jacques Rivette, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Grégoire Colin, Crime, Drama
A young biologist (Sylvie) is thrown into confusion when her brother (Paul) tries to persuade her that their father, who fell off a train five years ago Read More »
Screamers (1995) Christian Duguay, Peter Weller, Roy Dupuis, Jennifer Rubin, Sci-Fi, Thriller
(SIRIUS 6B, Year 2078) On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding Read More »
Mountains of the Moon (1990) Bob Rafelson, Patrick Bergin, Iain Glen, Richard E. Grant, Adventure, Drama, History, Mystery
The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton and Lt. John Hanning Speke’s expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victoria’s British Empire. Read More »
Afriques: Comment ça va avec la douleur? / Africa, How Are You with Pain? (1996) Raymond Depardon, Documentary
Only a microphone on his camera, Raymond Depardon has surveyed Africa from July 1993 to February 1996. Read More »
Blood Salvage (1990) Tucker Johnston, Danny Nelson, Lori Birdsong, Christian Hesler, Comedy, Horror
Twisted tale about a crazy, preaching redneck named Jake who kidnaps people off the highway and performs sick medical experiments on them. Read More »
Cadence (1990) Charlie Sheen, Martin Sheen, Jay Brazeau, Drama
As punishment for drunken, rebellious behavior, a young white soldier is thrown into a stockade populated entirely by black inmates. Read More »
