As an action star, Christopher Lambert will always be remembered as an also-ran.
Sure, he achieved notable, short-lived fame starring alongside Sean Connery in fantasy blockbuster Highlander (1986), but other than that, how many of his 86 credited acting roles can you […]
Full motion video games, or FMV’s for short, were all the (short lived) rage back in the early 90s.
CD technology had been around for a few years in the music industry, but, by 1992, it was finally mainstream to the point where just about everyone had traded in their cassettes for CDs. The same was becoming true for the video game industry as well […]
Capcom have made some classic games in their five decades as developers, but for me they will always be synonymous with the Street Fighter series.
Back in 1991, Street Fighter II: The World Warrior took arcade arenas by storm. After lukewarm reviews for the original Street Fighter coin-op, Capcom upped the stakes by completely revolutionising the competitive fighting game. Of course, the transition from pedestrian punch-out to fluid, fast-paced milestone […]
Back in 1991, director John Singleton single-handedly changed the face of cinema.
Not only did his sociopolitical drama Boyz n the Hood earn the 23-year-old the accolade of becoming both the first African-American and youngest person to receive a Best Director […]
White Men Can’t Jump is a movie which transcends its ethnic pretensions by making them key to its sense of comedy. Its racial narrative, although seemingly at the forefront, is very much peripheral to the story, and is used largely as a bonding device between cultures who are deemed incompatible by society […]
Whenever we speak fondly of a particular character, what is it that immediately comes to mind?
Sometimes it might be an action or an expression or some other physical detail that sets them apart, but more often than not it is the words that they use and how they use them. Dialogue is everything to a character, because for most of us words are the primary source of communication, and through them we are able to further understand a subject’s personality and motives […]
Back in the early ’90s the horror genre began to look decidedly second-rate.
Part of this was due to the increasing availability of CGI for low budget movie makers, its bargain basement lows becoming more widespread and accessible. Another, perhaps more telling part, was the plethora of made-for-TV Stephen King adaptions, their overabundance flooding VHS stores at a rate fast approaching that of his fiction […]
