Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
Sean
When a book is considered by many to be “unfilmable,” that might be an indication that it’s actually unfilmable. Many believed that if anyone could take Hunter S. Thompson’s book…
May 1998
U Turn (1997)
Bobby Cooper (Sean Penn) is not having a good day. He’s on his way to pay off some bookie-type thugs when his classic Ford Mustang blows a radiator hose and…
Godzilla (1998)
In the May 23, 1998 issue of TV Guide, director Roland Emmerich is quoted as saying that “if people don’t like the characters, they won’t want to watch the explosions.”…
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (1956)
This Americanized version of the 1954 Japanese release, Gojira, inserts Raymond Burr as Steve Martin, a reporter who just happens to stop in Tokyo when Godzilla makes his first appearance.…
The Ice Storm (1997)
I really didn’t know what to expect from The Ice Storm. What I got was a quirky, strange, and somehow satisfying look into the self-destruction of two families in 1973…
Cool World (1992)
There are bad movies that are bad because they’re simply flawed and there are bad movies that seem to go out of their way to be agonizingly awful. Cool World…
The Full Monty (1997)
Gaz (Robert Carlyle) is a wily, unemployed steelworker in Sheffield, a once-thriving British city which has now been reduced to a shadow of its former self. When the Chippendale male…