Nothing dates a film comedy like its representations of mental health. The Dream Team, a 1989 comedy directed by Howard Zieff, offers the 21st century viewer a choice: you can criticise it for its crass use of mental illness to generate … Continue reading REVIEW: The Dream Team (1989)
In 1979, Paramount Pictures brought back the cult TV series Star Trek in the form of a large-scale feature film. The film under-performed against the studio’s expectations, and a sequel – Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (1982) – was only put into production … Continue reading REVIEW: Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)
Anya (Meg Ryan) is an orphaned young woman in 1920s Russia who is drawn into a scheme to impersonate the missing princess Anastasia and defraud her grandmother. In 1988 Don Bluth’s film The Land Before Time had been an international smash hit, … Continue reading REVIEW: Anastasia (1997)
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