I was hesitant to watch the new Val documentary on Amazon Prime. Val Kilmer was an actor that I grew up adoring, thanks to films as varied as Top Secret, Willow, Top Gun, and my personal favorite, Real Genius. Much like Robert Downey Jr., whenever […]
Category: Five Movies
All Apologies: Five Films that Reflect Negatively on Generation X.
This past week I had the opportunity to watch the new documentary on HBO, Woodstock ‘99: Peace, Love, and Rage and it brought back some memories. One of the coolest things I managed to do as a recent high school graduate was to attend Woodstock […]
Top Five: Baseball Films of the 90’s
When I first started this blog one of my goals was to bring attention to the films of the 90’s, a decade which seemed to draw the short straw in film history despite a wide variety of excellent films across all genres. However, despite the […]
Top Five: Ranking the 90’s Best Picture Winners
Looking at the list of all the Best Pictures of the 90’s, it’s easy to see that the Academy straight up got things wrong a good percentage of the time. But even with the miscarriages of justice that were Forrest Gump, Titanic, and Dances with […]
Top Five: Women Directors in the 90’s (plus some bonus suggestions)
For International Women’s Day (or the day after) I wanted to create a well rounded list of women directors from the 90’s that would amaze and astound you, but that wouldn’t be the case. Creating this list made me mad because it shouldn’t have been […]
Five unexpectedly appropriate Valentines Day Films from the 90’s.
Grosse Point Blank Martin Blank may be a professional assassin, but he’s losing his taste for the work. Unsure of what to do he heads home to Grosse Point Michigan for his high school reunion where he hopes the town, and the girlfriend, he left […]
Welcome to Black History Month
I thought about starting off the month with my usual dive into movies that made me who I am from the year 1991 and somehow find a way to tie this into black history month. Surprisingly it wasn’t all that hard, as some seminal movies […]
Hope Springs Eternal: Five movies that will put you through the wringer then leave you smiling.
5. Hope Floats (1998) 4. Mr. Holland’s Opus (1995) 3. Groundhog Day (1993) 2. Jerry Maguire (1994) 1. The Shawshank Redemption (1994) “Remember Red, hope is a good thing, maybe even the best of things, and no good thing can ever die.”