PULP FICTION
A brilliant mix of action and humour following the interweaving stories of hit-man, cokehead and all round bad news Vincent Vega (Travolta) with Butch (Bruce Willis) a down and out boxer who reneges on his promise to a crime lord to throw a fight. Mesmerising. Also features Uma Thurman, Samuel L.Jackson and Harvey Keitel.
CAREER GIRLS
Cartlidge (Burnt By The Sun / Naked) and Steadman (TVs Thieftakers) plays two girls who meet at university and then are reunited in London six years later. Together they visit their old haunts and old friends just to see how little things have changed. British director Mike Leighs first film since the Oscar-nominated Secrets And Lies, it has all his trademark British grit laced with witty social comment.
PROPHET OF EVIL
Brian Dennehy, who has made a virtual career out of these true-life stories, scores here with his strong portrayal of a Texan cult leader whose disciples were kept in line by threats and violence. When cult members start to go missing, investigator Dan Fields (Devane) sets out to expose him. Fine supporting cast includes Dee Wallace Stone (E.T.) and Jackie Earle Haley (The Zoo Gang).
ANGEL OF FURY
Standard Rothrock action outing, shot in Malaysia. She plays a security expert, the target of terrorists who attack her and kill her husband. Slowly recovering and regaining her fighting skills, she knows that she was targeted for a reason - the revolutionary computer system technology her company is working on. Sam Jones, Flash Gordon back in the 80s, stars as one of Dragos henchmen.
WOLF
Jack Nicholson finds himself changing after being bitten by a wolf on a country road late at night. Soon hes becoming more aggressive at the publishing house where he works and having strange flashbacks about being in the woods at night. When he meets the beautiful daughter of his boss (Michelle Pfeiffer) the animal side of his nature becomes even more apparent....
DROP ZONE
Not for those with a fear of heights, Wesley Snipes here plays a US Marshal who investigates the alleged death of a gang of terrorists who hijacked a prisoner en route to jail killing Wesleys brother before seemingly leaping to their deaths with their quarry. Of course theyre actually expert sky-divers, and Wesley has to infiltrate the closed world of sky-diving in order to track them down.
HUDSON HAWK
Disastrously silly caper yarn with Bruce Willis as the title character, a cat burglar who is just so irritating its untrue. This particular yarn involves him in a spate of art thefts leading up to the lifting of a Da Vinci manuscript. Support from Richard E.Grant and Danny Aiello, who should have known better. Andie MacDowell replaced European actress Maruschka Detmers, who walked off the film after a couple of days. Good move.
NOW AND THEN
Generational comedy drama with four young girls (Christina Ricci, Thora Birch, Gaby Hoffman, and Ashleigh Aston Moore) growing up into Moore, Griffith, Rita Wilson and Rosie ODonnell and having the reunion they planned 20 years before, contrasting how their ambitions were tempered by reality and luck, both good and bad. What would have been called a womans picture in the 40s.
THE HITCHER
Brilliant road movie thriller with supernatural overtones. When C.Thomas Howell stops during a storm to pick up hitcher Rutger Hauer hes just let a psychotic killer into his life. He manages to get him out of the car but then gets caught up in a game of cat and mouse, with Hauer committing crimes he is able to pin on Howell. A truly gripping thriller, with Jennifer Jason Leigh experiencing one of the worst deaths in cinema history.
NEMESIS
Delirious sci-fi mix of high-octane action, explosions and heavy weaponry as cyborgs plans to replace high-ranking humans with their own kind in order to take over the world. Ex - French Navy SEAL Gruner is the gun-toting, high-kicking action man out to break the conspiracy. Doesnt pause for breath. Followed by two sequels.