Category: 90s Movies
Elphaba + Galinda During “Popular” = A Foil for Cher and Tai in Clueless
Perhaps fittingly, Amy Heckerling’s Clueless and Gregory Maguire’s Wicked both came out in 1995. For while Maguire’s book wouldn’t offer any songs that made the [Read More…]
Last Action Hero and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: Prime Examples of How Shane Black Contrasts NY vs. LA in His Films
During the time when Shane Black co-wrote the script for Last Action Hero, perhaps he was still somewhat slightly enchanted with Los Angeles. Even if [Read More…]
Lieutenant Dan: New Year’s Eve Mascot Extraordinaire
Over the course of recent years (namely 2020), Lieutenant Dan (Gary Sinise) from Robert Zemeckis’ Forrest Gump has become something of a cult hero, a [Read More…]
A Dave Plot Afoot
The conspiracy theories that have abounded in the wake of Donald Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis have been plentiful. And among the most absurd, of course, is [Read More…]
12 Monkeys & The Cassandra Complex: Why Having Foresight Makes No Difference in Trying to Stop a Pandemic
As the coronavirus rages on its world tour without signs of slowing down (despite the lies China is likely telling about no more reported cases), [Read More…]
Even In the Most Germinal Phase of the Internet, The Net Warned Against It As A Black Hole of Identity Loss
Despite the fact that, in the present, so much of one’s identity is wrapped up in the “profiles” of social media (a.k.a. the internet)–as though [Read More…]
Female Rage in Now and Then
As part of one of the “let’s throw female audiences a bone” category in the 90s, Now and Then (along with A League of Their [Read More…]
The Reverse Makeover in The Mirror Has Two Faces
Never given quite enough credit for the very fact that it was directed by a woman (where was all this fanfare in ’96? Funneled into [Read More…]
Poison Ivy Is An Understated Class Warfare Movie Posing As Another “Erotic Thriller” of the Early 90s
In a land that now seems very far away to us all–90s L.A.–it was still possible for a girl to pull herself up by her [Read More…]
The Preferability of Mortality: Interview With the Vampire
In a classic case of what’s known as choosing from shit sandwich or shit cereal, wealthy plantation owner Louis (Brad Pitt, at his 1994 peak) [Read More…]
