THE LOST BOYS (1987)
After moving to a new town with their mother, two brothers discover the area is a haven for vampires...
ROBOCOP (1987)
In a dystopian near-future Detroit, a terminally wounded cop returns to the police force as a cyborg haunted by memories of his human life before...
FACE/OFF (1997)
20 years ago today, renowned Hong Kong director John Woo's best American movie debuted in US cinemas: the sci-fi action thriller Face/Off...
STAR WARS: EPISODE I – THE PHANTOM MENACE (1999)
A short time ago, in a cinema not far away...
20 Years On: THE FRIGHTENERS
On 19 July 1996, Peter Jackson's THE FRIGHTENERS was released to disappointing box office sales, but 20 years later it's clearly an important transitional movie for the LORD OF THE RINGS director...
SHORT CIRCUIT (1986)
Movies of the 1980s had a fascination with robots, almost to the point of obsession. It was the decade that brought us The Terminator,...
THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991)
While the Oscars often overlook genre movies, horror movies, in particular, are rarely included among the Academy’s nominees. The exceptions tend to prove the...
LEGEND (1985)
While Ridley Scott’s long, eclectic filmography has its ups and downs, fans and non-fans alike generally agree that he’s never quite reached the heights...
BRAZIL (1985)
Bureaucracy on film is a subject that, for obvious reasons, has always been best approached by filmmakers working under authoritarian governments, specifically in Eastern...
WATERWORLD (1995)
Waterworld still evokes feelings of cinematic misfortune, two decades after the post-apocalyptic action film’s summer release, but time’s been kind to this 1995 ‘flopbuster’. Indeed, despite...
CLUELESS (1995)
If you were a teenager in the 1990s, there’s a big possibility you still use lines from Clueless in your everyday life. Between “As...