Director James Bridges’s 1988 topical drama Bright Lights, Big City stars a too lightweight and too young-looking Michael J Fox as the anti-hero of this careful and meticulous but rather tedious screen version of Jay […]
Director Peter Jackson’s 1996 supernatural black comedy horror thriller The Frighteners, in the style of Beetlejuice complete with a Danny Elfman score, is poundingly pacey, reasonably scary and original enough, but, when the brilliant special […]
‘From the creators of Bad Taste, comes a film with no taste at all!’ Director Peter Jackson’s warped, outrageous and disgusting 1989 New Zealand musical black comedy cult movie Meet the Feebles establishes his horror […]
Debut director Peter Jackson’s 1987 New Zealand horror movie Bad Taste is junk food for the mind – no substance and too much ketchup, and it is so rare that it is still uncooked and […]
In 1992, Peter Jackson could be described as a ‘quirky horror director who makes irregular assaults on the senses’ and here in the zombie attack black comedy horror movie Braindead [Dead Alive] he goes one […]
Clark Gable and Myrna Loy, Hollywood’s then reigning king and queen, bring their luminous presences to MGM’s 1938 romantic comedy adventure film Too Hot to Handle [Let ‘Em All Talk], a tale of a news […]
Writer-director John Singleton’s 1991 phenomenon of a movie, Boyz n the Hood caused riots and huge queues at the box-office in the US, though at heart it is a fairly routine tale of growing up […]
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