A Peak Guilt-free Bay-teur Hollywood candy bar made with Nicolas Cage Nuts, Sean Connery Caramel, and an Ed Harris Spicy Honey glaze.
The Rock
Batman
I had very fond memories of this movie from childhood. Now it is more a liminal space between the Adam West Camp and Christian Bale Serious Batmen
Batman
Two Mules for Sister Sara
This is definitely one of the westerns of all time.
Two Mules for Sister Sara
The Return
A lovely, pensive walk with the consequences of regret, failure, and grace.
The Return
Blade
Channelling the same goth vibe as The Matrix, which came out a year later, Blade remains an entertaining albeit lumbering and predictable action flick. There are flashes of interesting cinematography and editing, but it is more fin than fin de siecle.
Blade
When the Raven Flies
A period-accurate Icelandic Western meant for folks who absorbed sagas with their mother's milk. Give the film some grace for its ham-fisted editing.
When the Raven Flies
Bugonia
A timely movie for an era where conspiracy theories turn out to be true in uniquely dumb ways.
Bugonia
The War of the Worlds: Next Century
If you're into "cassette futurism" this is the movie for you. In general, Polish sci-fi produced behind the Iron Curtain remains undefeated with its uncanny ability to undermine authoritarian inevitability by pushing on hopelessness until something breaks.
The War of the Worlds: Next Century
Sneakers
So much of this is still dead-on from how cybersecurity and pen-testing works to this day. A reboot as a TV series with the same archetype characters would be a blast.
Sneakers
Coriolanus
Absolutely love this movie but Gerard Butler is too much of a presence to fit neatly within his essentially bit part role as foil to Fiennes.
Coriolanus
Richard III
Ian McKellen doing typical tour-de-force Ian McKellen things. Kind of a weird Orwellian Nazi production design that sorta works but has that standard 90s heavy-handedness to it.
Richard III
Gambit
Take "The Thomas Crowne Affair" but instead of having a character that's smarter than everyone in the room, make the thief the dumbest person in the movie. The plot, then, is contrived and too smarmy for its own good. This can work, but if you're going for Pink Panther, really go for it - not whatever this was.
Gambit
First Knight
Great acting in this film, other than Gere, who is more wooden than a toothpick factory. Besides that, this is overly pristine melodrama would have benefited from a bit more meat, and a bit more tooth.
A fun movie, but the source material was serialized, and thus the plot would have benefited more as a limited TV series than the herky-jerky 132 minutes that we ended up with.