1990s
His 'n' Hers Spotify
Pulp genre: Britpop
release date April 18, 1994 publisher: Island
His 'n' Hers is the fourth studio album by English rock band Pulp, released on 18 April 1994 by Island Records. It proved to be the band's breakthrough album, reaching number nine on the UK Albums Chart, and was nominated for the 1994 Mercury Music Prize. In 1998, Q magazine readers voted it the seventieth greatest album of all time, while it was placed at number 110 in the book Virgin All-Time Top 1000 Albums.
Malice (1993) TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban
Malice
director: Harold Becker actor: Alec Baldwin / Nicole Kidman
other title: Malice - Il sospetto / Malícia
A tale about a happily married couple who would like to have children. Tracy teaches infants, Andy's a college professor. Things are never the same after she is taken to hospital and operated upon by Jed, a "know all" doctor.
Screamers (1995) NeoDB WikiData TMDB KevGa-NeoDB IMDb Douban
Screamers
director: Christian Duguay actor: Peter Weller / Jennifer Rubin
other title: Screamers - Urla dallo spazio / Screamers - Tödliche Schreie
SIRIUS 6B, Year 2078. On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers designed for one purpose only -- to hunt down and destroy all enemy life forms.
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Species II
director: Peter Medak actor: Michael Madsen / Natasha Henstridge
other title: Species II - Specie mortale II / Espécie Mortal II
Having just returned from a mission to Mars, Commander Ross isn't exactly himself. He's slowly becoming a terrifying alien entity with one goal -- to procreate with human women! When countless women suffer gruesome deaths after bearing half-alien offspring, scientist Laura Baker and hired assassin Press Lennox use Eve, a more tempered alien clone, to find Ross and his brood. Before long Eve escapes to mate with Ross.
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Species
director: Roger Donaldson actor: Natasha Henstridge / Ben Kingsley
other title: Specie mortale / Espécie Mortal
In 1993, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence Project receives a transmission detailing an alien DNA structure, along with instructions on how to splice it with human DNA. The result is Sil, a sensual but deadly creature who can change from a beautiful woman to an armour-plated killing machine in the blink of an eye.
DNA (1997) IMDb WikiData
DNA
director: William Mesa actor: Mark Dacascos / Jürgen Prochnow
other title: DNA. Una storia che non deve accadere / D.N.A. Genetic Code - Dem Grauen ausgeliefert
A mad scientist's DNA experiment on the bones of a mysterious jungle creature brings the carnivorous beast to life, and only his former assistant Ash Mattley and CIA operative Claire Sommers can stop it.
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Mars Attacks!
7.3 (7 ratings) director: Tim Burton actor: Jack Nicholson / Glenn Close
other title: Marte Ataca!
A fleet of Martian spacecraft surrounds the world's major cities and all of humanity waits to see if the extraterrestrial visitors have, as they claim, "come in peace." U.S. President James Dale receives assurance from science professor Donald Kessler that the Martians' mission is a friendly one. But when a peaceful exchange ends in the total annihilation of the U.S. Congress, military men call for a full-scale nuclear retaliation.
Jan. 19, 2026 watched
People slag it off, and sure it has issues, but I always enjoy it!

TIL it was Alex Cox (Repo Man) who came up with the idea.

Rewatched (for the 7th? 8th? time) in #MonsterMiru watch party on Mastodon (after #Monsterdon).
1990s Action ActionComedy ActionComedySciFi AnnetteBenning
Dummy NeoDB Spotify Douban Discogs
8.4 (5 ratings) Portishead genre: Electronic
release date Aug. 22, 1994 publisher: Go! Beat / London
Dummy is the debut studio album by English electronic music band Portishead, released on 22 August 1994 by Go! Beat Records.

The album received critical acclaim and won the 1995 Mercury Music Prize. It is often credited with popularising the trip hop genre, and is frequently cited in lists of the best albums of the 1990s. Dummy was certified triple platinum in the UK in February 2019, and had sold 920,000 copies in the United Kingdom as of September 2020. Worldwide, the album had sold 3.6 million copies by 2008.
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Godzilla
director: Roland Emmerich actor: Matthew Broderick / Jean Reno
French nuclear tests irradiate an iguana into a giant monster that viciously attacks freighter ships in the Pacific Ocean. A team of experts, including Niko Tatopoulos, conclude that the oversized reptile is the culprit. Before long, the giant lizard is loose in Manhattan as the US military races to destroy the monster before it reproduces and it's spawn takes over the world.
Jan. 12, 2026 watched
Long, limp facsimile of a Godzilla movie ripping off also Jurassic Park, Aliens etc while including as much corporate promotion as possible. Broderick, in particular, underwhelms.

Godzilla 98 is the Woodstock '99 of monster movies.

Watched in #Monsterdon watch party on Mastodon.
1990s Action Godzilla HankAzaria JeanReno
New World Disorder (1999) IMDb WikiData
New World Disorder
director: Richard Spence actor: Rutger Hauer / Tara Fitzgerald
other title: File: programma mortale / New World Disorder - Das Killerprogramm
A gang of four eyed crooks led by Kurt Bishop are ripping off top dollar computer chips from a list of factories. The night they hit Dynaphase Systems, two dirty employees are staying late using company resources to develop their own plans for a security microchip worth millions of dollars. Psychopathic Bishop raids the Dynaphase facility and downloads the mainframe before the employees have a chance to completely erase their work from it. When Bishop discovers the value of the stolen, but partially erased information, he sets out after the rest of the chip design, letting nothing stand in his way.
Jan. 13, 2026 watched
As perfunctory straight-to-video Luxembourg tax shelter projects go... surely some are better than this?

Muddled hacker-ish "thriller" leavened by Rutger's wardrobe of bow tie + leather jacket and Tara Fitzgerald's "American" accent. And an appearance by Michelle Gomez (Sue White from Green Wing).

Watched in #MondayActionMovie watch party on Mastodon
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1990s Action AndrewMcCarthy Cybercrime Hacking
Fin de Siècle Spotify
The Divine Comedy
release date Aug. 31, 1998 publisher: Divine Comedy
Jan. 12, 2026 listened
'National Express' never fails to bring joy to my heart, but the whole concept album impresses, too.

But then what do you expect when a chamber pop songsmith like Neil Hannon sits in a flat in Clapham listening to Jacques Brel, playing pirate games on the Playstation & musing on the end of the 20th century? :)
1990s ChamberPop TheDivineComedy UK
Life Spotify
The Cardigans
release date March 1, 1995 publisher: Universal / This Compilation
Jan. 12, 2026 listened
'Carnival' and 'Rise & Shine' are 2 of my favourite songs of the 90s, but my first time listening to the whole album.

Most of the rest of the album enjoyable without being special, although I did get a kick out of the easy-listening version of 'Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath'! :D
1990s EasyListening Lounge Pop Sweden
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Hot Shots!
7.0 (7 ratings) director: Jim Abrahams actor: Charlie Sheen / Cary Elwes
other title: Ases Pelos Ares / Hot Shots! - Die Mutter aller Filme
The gang that created Airplane! and The Naked Gun sets its sights on Top Gun in this spoof. Topper Harley is a talented but unstable fighter pilot with an axe to grind: clearing the family name. His mission is to avenge his father and save a mission sabotaged by greedy weapons manufacturers. He also gets involved in a relationship with Ramada Thompson, a woman with an unusually talented stomach. Hot Shots! makes fun of a variety of other films, from Dances with Wolves to The Fabulous Baker Boys.
Jan. 9, 2026 watched
Parody of films like 'Top Gun', from Jim Abrahams of 'Airplane' fame. Not quite the same standard but a lot of LOL moments.

Watched in #Comedon watch partyy on Mastodon
1990s CaryElwes CharlieSheen Comedon Comedy
A Chinese Odyssey Part Two: Cinderella (1995) NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB
大话西游之仙履奇缘
8.7 (21 ratings) director: Jeffrey Lau actor: Stephen Chow / Athena Chu Yan
other title: Sai yau gei: Sin leui kei yun / A Chinese Odyssey Part Two - Cinderella
This sequel to "Pandora's Box" continues director Jeffrey Lau's adaptation of the Buddhism saga "Journey to the West". Stranded five centuries in the past, Joker Monkey King must battle a variety of monsters, seductive women and super-powered villains to save the dying Pak Jing-Jing.
A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's Box (1995) NeoDB Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
西遊記第壹佰零壹回之月光寶盒
8.7 (17 ratings) director: Jeffrey Lau actor: Stephen Chow / Karen Mok
other title: Chinese Odyssey (Part I), A / A Chinese Odyssey Part One - Pandora's Box
When the Goddess of Happiness tosses the Longevity Monk and his disciples out of heaven (because the Monkey King tried to attain immortality), the Monkey King is reincarnated as the Joker. He now spends his time chasing two jealous women. When one of them is dying, the Joker goes back in time in an attempt to save her.
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Event Horizon
5.6 (13 ratings) director: Paul W. S. Anderson actor: Laurence Fishburne / Sam Neill
other title: Punto di non ritorno / O Enigma do Horizonte
In 2047, a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the starship Event Horizon which disappeared mysteriously seven years before on its maiden voyage. However, it soon becomes evident that something sinister resides in its corridors.
The Perfect Weapon (1991) IMDb WikiData
The Perfect Weapon
director: Mark DiSalle actor: Jeff Speakman / John Dye
other title: Arma perfetta / Eine perfekte Waffe
Jeff, a young delinquent, is enrolled by his father in a kenpo school, in the hopes of teaching the boy some self-discipline. Years later, Jeff's mentor, Kim, is being threatened by one of the Korean mafia families. Jeff tries to help his old friend, but is too late to prevent Kim's death at the hands of an unknown hitman. Vowing revenge, Jeff takes on all of the families, using his martial arts skills to find the man who killed his friend.
Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfold (1995) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfold
director: Fred Olen Ray actor: J.J. North / Ted Monte
other title: L'attaque de la pin-up géante / Attack of the 60 foot Centerfold
Among the finalists for "Centerfold Of The Year" are Angel and her spiteful rival Betty. However, no one is aware of Angel's involvement in a secret medical beauty enhancement program headed by Dr. Lindstrom. Desperate to win, Angel overdoses on Lindstrom's formula, with disastrous results. Soon she has grown to monstrous but shapely proportions, causing all sorts of complications, the most dangerous being Betty's jealousy of Angel's new-found attention. Betty discovers Angel's secret and takes the formula herself, causing her to grow into an equally gorgeous giant. As the girls battle it out on Hollywood Blvd., Dr. Lindstrom races to find an antidote.