So it’s been a long time since I’ve ventured back into the old time machine and go back a decade to revisit or check out certain films that people across the internet champion from the 90s. Here it is and this week I plan on seeing for the first time an Asian film by Takashi Miike. (more…)
It’s Friday and Craig [Ice Cube] doesn’t have anything to do, so he’s hanging out in the neighbourhood with his friend Smokey [Chris Tucker]. While joking and enjoying the day Craig and Smokey end up smoking off all of Big Worm’s [Faizon Love] weed that Smokey was supposed to be selling. Now they owe him money and they are looking for how to get it before Big Worm kills them.
The famous Nicolo Bussoti violin is being auctioned off in Montreal, and we are taken through the story of how it travelled throughout the world and made a name for itself through its owners throughout history.
Lester Burnham [Kevin Spacey] is a stereotypical suburban father and his wife, Carolyn Burnham [Anette Benning], and a daughter Jane Burnham [Thora Birch] is the stereotypical suburban family. Until of course they stop making those fake smiles like they’re taking a family photo. Lester is going through a case of depression, while Carolyn is trying to be more successful at her job and begins to cheat on Lester, and Jane hates her parents since they are so ‘weird’ and she starts to get interested in the odd drug-dealer boy who lives next door.
D-Fens [Michael Douglas] is stuck in traffic one morning, and he decides he wants to “go home”. So he leaves his car in the middle of bumper to bumper traffic and starts walking home. On his way home he goes on a violent rampage across the city as he sees the nuisances and dregs of society that bothers him.
Anthony [Luke Wilson] has just left a mental hospital and met back up with his friend and colleague, Dignan [Owen Wilson]. Dignan has plans for the two of them to be big time burglars. After pulling off a small heist they go into hiding out in the middle of nowhere and stay in a motel. Anthony falls in love with a housekeeper from Parguay who works at the motel, Inez [Lumi Cavazos].
So hopefully every week, or everyother week I will highlight a film from the 90s that I have seen for the first time. Recently I’ve realised there are so many, it’s time I get around to seeing them. I’d like to consider my “Se7en” review last week a part of this, I just never thought of making it a weekly thing at that point. May even get into the 80s one of these days. Anyways we will start this off with Martin Scorsese’s remake of the 60s classic “Cape Fear”.
Max Cady (Robert De Niro) has been released from prison after serving a fourteen year sentence, and is stalking his former defense attorney, Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte). After fourteen years of prison Max Cady has improved himself, he has brought himself out of ignorance and is now literate and as knowledgeable as any lawyer about the laws of society. He uses this to stalk his target in such a way that he is not prosecutable by any court, and at the same time making sure to drive a deep sense of fear into Sam and his family. (more…)
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