VERN'S REVIEWS on the FILMS of CINEMA

August 23, 1996 SOLO is a sci-fi action movie starring Mario Van Peebles (EXTERMINATOR 2, DELIVERY BOYS, RAPPIN’, JAWS: THE REVENGE, POSSE, FULL ECLIPSE, GUNMEN, HIGHLANDER III, PANTHER) as an android super soldier.

August 16, 1996 THE FAN is one of those movies I saw at the time, thought was pretty decent, didn’t think much about for 30 years, watched again, still thought was the same pretty decent.

After spending nearly a decade making the literally gigantic FX extravaganzas GODZILLA VS.

August 9, 1996 John Carpenter’s ESCAPE FROM L.A. is a movie that I still like, but (kind of like THE FRIGHTENERS) not as much as I did at the time.

TOXIC: A FAIRY TALE FOR GROWN-UPS is a new Kannada-language Indian film that I went and saw at the multiplex on opening day last week.

August 2, 1996 Roald Dahl was my favorite author when I was a little kid, but I didn’t know his book Matilda because it didn’t come out until ’88.

It’s not that high of praise to say COYOTE VS.

TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA is the third movie from writer/director Jane Schoenbrun.

TUNER is a pretty simple and well-constructed little crime movie, about a quiet, unassuming protagonist with very specific talents, vulnerabilities and needs.

July 26, 1996 You know I love THE CABLE GUY, and there’s another favorite coming up, but to me there’s no doubt that KINGPIN is the comedy of 1996.

July 26, 1996 Today in Slam Evil Summer catch-up I have a double feature of films released on the same day, both about wayward youth traveling around having adventures, getting into trouble, and finding parental figures.

July 26, 1996 I talked earlier in this series about HARRIET THE SPY and how it was a Nickelodeon production that sort of had its roots in an interstitial-turned-special-turned show made by quirky, creative people with vision.

July 24, 1996 A TIME TO KILL is a court room drama, but it was in the top ten of the domestic box office for 1996.

I know we’re supposed to be cynical about i.p. and remakes and what not, but I am a child of Freddy, so to my mind franchising has always been one of the elements of horror.

There’s a scene in SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY where Peter Parker (Tom Holland, THE ODYSSEY) sees his high school best friend Ned (Jacob Batalon, THE WRECKING CREW) at the bodega.

July 24, 1996 SKYSCRAPER is a DTV movie that nobody would’ve missed if I’d skipped it in this retrospective.

July 19, 1996 (U.S. release date) It’s not exactly a bold statement to say that TRAINSPOTTING was a phenomenon.

THE ODYSSEY.

July 19, 1996 As you can see I’m lagging behind on this summer retrospective, struggling to catch up.

July 17, 1996 MULTIPLICITY is the Michael Keaton clone movie.