The Rift (1990) – Director: Juan Piquer Simón – 4/10 (passable/mediocre)Yes, it appears to be and it is indeed another rip-off of The Abyss, featuring submarines and some sea mutants and the likes. Neither is the flick particularly special or titillating in the way it handles the subject matter nor […]
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Shadowzone (1990) – Director: J.S. Cardone – 3/10 (very mediocre/bad) Appealing as it may seem at a glance, the sci-fi outing simply proves too impaired by its technical defects and poor production values all around. These deficiencies manifest themselves most painfully in its sordid, tawdry sets certain parts of which […]
Monday Morning is a high school drama from 1990. Bobby Parker (Noah Blake) is new at his high school and struggles to fit in. When he starts making friends with the most popular girl, his boyfriend James (Brandon Hooper), an arrogant prick with an entourage of bullies, gets jealous and […]
Shout Select continues its run of superb home video releases with a new Collector’s Edition edition of David Lynch’s 1990 dark tale of romance WILD AT HEART on May 22nd. BUY FROM AMAZON Synopsis: Virtuoso filmmaker David Lynch (Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet, The Straight Story) brings his singular vision to […]
“He got your gun…your badge…and your teeth? You are a disgrace to the police force.” A film that I’ve been a fan of for a long time is MIAMI BLUES (1990). It’s based on a novel by the great author Charles Willeford (Cockfighter) and directed by George Armitage who got […]
Year of Furious Films is our newest series on FC where we’ll be choosing our favorite films from each designated year. You may notice that we won’t be going in chronological order, it’ll be more random, but thats really part of the fun. We’ll be covering a wide array of […]
“Oh forgive me Paul for prattling away and making everything all oogy.” Not only is MISERY one of my favorite horror/thrillers, it’s one of my favorite movies period. Based on the 1987 book by Stephen King, the story focuses on a popular writer Paul Sheldon (James Caan) who has just […]
The famous tracking shot from GoodFellas may seem like a cliche choice to start off with but I wanted to pick something that would be well known and easy for readers to get right into/appreciate. This classic sequence (set to the song “Then He Kissed Me” by The Crystals) takes […]
Following the success of his first two low budget Evil Dead films, Director Sam Raimi took his big jump into the Hollywood pool with DARKMAN (1990). The story was heavily inspired by classic Universal Monster movies like Frankenstein and The Invisible Man combined with Phantom of The Opera. This film […]
Terry Noonan (Sean Penn) has been absent from his old neighborhood of Hell’s Kitchen, NYC for many years. While he was away a few things changed…such as him becoming a police officer in Boston. When he’s picked for a special undercover assignment infiltrating the Irish mob in New York City […]