Archive for Release Year: 1993

10 posts from 29 January 2024 to 15 June 2015.

  • Demolition Man

    Demolition Man is hilarious. It’s only set in 2030, but it’s like The Jetsons already, at least in San (Francisco/Los) Angeles, the white-picket-fence mega-metropolis of the future.

  • Red Rock West

    The director of The Last Seduction did not spring into existence with his magnum opus. First he did this low key, light noir, set on a small town, in which our lead drops into. And it’s not a remake of Yojimbo.

  • Philadelphia

    A classic. Worth it for the Callas aria scene alone.

  • Son of the Pink Panther

    A very silly comedy. It might be a series of disjointed set pieces, but those set pieces are very good.

  • Body of Evidence

    50 Shades of anti-noir. Sneaks up on you when you are not expecting, wearing a fedora and trenchcoat, talking gruff, then it turns out the femme fatale gets killed by a previous lover, and love prevails.

  • Groundhog Day

    Purgatory is a small town celebrating an inane “festival”. What a depressing and miserable existence. No wonder our sophisticated hero commits suicide so many times.

  • Super Mario Bros.

    An alternative universe where some blonde property developer from Brooklyn rules with an iron fist, plastering his name and face everywhere, while privately harassing women. Only good working class folk can save us from this deranged maniac. Good thing this was absolute fiction, no way this happened decades later.

  • Fatal Instinct

    The superior Basic Instinct parody, where the femme fatale puts on underwear instead. Raunchy, but tasteful. Worth it for the cast alone.

  • Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit

    Back to the convent she goes, this time to teach a group of unruly inner city kids what life is all about: bust your ass for a possibility of an education, while external consultants suck the school money into their pockets, until they close it down and earn passive income from the capitalist leeching.

  • Schindler's List

    You got to hand it to Spielberg, he can tug at heartstrings. Under absolutely no circumstances you have got to “hand it” to the nazis.