The late 90s were a boom time for the F.P.S. genre. Cynically subversive humour, gratuitous excesses of guns and guts made for an intoxicatingly alluring mixture. A notable example was Blood, it managed to take the iconic Build Engine, inject it with Lovecraftian horror, and … Continue reading Blood II: The Chosen (1998)
It is a trope that mothers and daughters-in-law do not often see eye-to-eye, generational attitudes clash, and doting affection for the husband/son clashes even more. Whether this is true depends on dynamic, yet that does not stop stories from being told about this frosty relationship. … Continue reading Hush (1998)
There was a time before Facebook and Google, where Microsoft was seen as the omnipotently evil organisation. Rising to market dominance in the 90s, but this reputation was built on a pit of litigation and questionable business practices. Becoming the focus of both envy and … Continue reading Sublime Parroty Part 4: Microshaft Winblows 98 (1998)
Sequels can be hard to crack, with the villain defeated, the characters have evolved for the better, there’s usually nowhere else to go. You can try to escalate the conditions of the original film, but this can be a risky gamble. In 1998, it was … Continue reading I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998)
A lot has changed from 1951 to 2001, the rise of TV, the fall of communism, the expansion of civil rights and as such it is easy to think of the early post-war years as another country. But despite its controversies, there are those who … Continue reading The Majestic (1998)
With last week focusing almost entirely on the doom and utter bleakness of space travel, for the final part of this trilogy, a change of pace is in order to a film that is a little more positive. For the final instalment, we focus on … Continue reading Space Mishap Extravaganza Part 3 – Lost In Space (1998)
