More a romantic fantasy than a romcom per se, Serendipity was one of the pinnacles of what might be described as the silver age of the 90s romcom, which started around the [...]

Any Bond film was going to pale in comparison to Goldfinger, but even so Thunderball was a remarkably weak effort – and easily the weakest film in the Sean Connery canon. [...]

Few films captured the tremulous edge of the 90s romcom quite like While You Were Sleeping, and even fewer had such a strange and original premise. Scripted by Daniel G. [...]

Of all the erotic thrillers released in the wake of Basic Instinct, Color of Night is perhaps the most preposterous – and the most visionary. By this stage, the erotic [...]

Ghost was Jerry Zucker’s first and best film as a solo director. Before this, he’d teamed up with brother David Zucker and Jim Abrahams to direct a string of zany [...]

Bond was never quite so dissociated from the Bond brand as he was in From Russia with Love, the second film in the Bond franchise. Dr. No established the Bond film, and [...]

While Dr. No and From Russia With Love put certain elements of the Bond mythology in place, Goldfinger was the first fully-formed template for what we now think of as the [...]

In Basic Instinct, two of the headiest genres of the 80s and early 90s finally, totally converged – neo-noir and the erotic thriller – producing an intoxicating, [...]

When Sea of Love was released in 1989 Al Pacino hadn’t been in a film for four years – the longest gap in his career to date. His last film, Revolution, had also been a [...]

Twister was Jan De Bont’s spiritual sequel to Speed – his effort to outspeed Speed – and amazingly it worked. Like Speed, it’s about a man caught up in a woman’s [...]