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Spoiler (1998) IMDb WikiData TMDB
Spoiler
director: Jeff Burr actor: Gary Daniels / Meg Foster …
other title: Spoiler - Verdammt im Eis / Spoiler – Verdammt im Eis
Roger Mason is a prisoner locked away in a futuristic fortress of a jail. Desperate to escape and see his daughter, he keeps making attempt after attempt to break free, but each one is foiled just as he's about to gain his freedom. As his punishments include being frozen in suspended animation for years at a time, he stays the same age while his daughter grows older. As more time keeps being added to his sentence, he despairs of ever getting out.
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Fortress (1992) IMDb TMDB WikiData
Fortress
director: Stuart Gordon actor: Christopher Lambert / Kurtwood Smith …
other title: 2013 - La fortezza / Fangeborgen …
In the future, the inmates of a private underground prison are computer-controlled with cameras, dream readers, and devices that can cause pain or death. John and his illegally pregnant wife Karen are locked inside "The Fortress" but are determined to escape before the birth of their baby.
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No Escape (1994) IMDb WikiData TMDB
No Escape
director: Martin Campbell actor: Ray Liotta / Lance Henriksen …
other title: Fuga da Absolom / Flugten fra Absolom …
In the year 2022, a ruthless prison warden has created the ultimate solution for his most troublesome and violent inmates: Absolom, a secret jungle island where prisoners are abandoned and left to die. But Marine Captain John Robbins, convicted of murdering a commanding officer, is determined to escape the island in order to reveal the truth behind his murderous actions and clear his name.
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The Commitments (1991) TMDB WikiData IMDb Skybridge
The Commitments
director: Alan Parker actor: Robert Arkins / Michael Aherne …
other title: Os Commitments / Die Commitments …
Jimmy Rabbitte, just a thick-ya out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First he needs musicians and singers: things slowly start to click when he finds three fine-voiced females virtually in his back yard, a lead singer (Deco) at a wedding, and, responding to his ad, an aging trumpet player, Joey "The Lips" Fagan.
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His 'n' Hers Spotify
Pulp genre: Britpop
release date 1994-04-18 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.
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Screamers (1995) NeoDB WikiData TMDB KevGa-NeoDB Douban IMDb Skybridge
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 (1998) IMDb TMDB NeoDB WikiData Douban Skybridge
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 (1995) IMDb Douban TMDB NeoDB Skybridge WikiData
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.
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DNA (1997) IMDb WikiData TMDB
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! (1996) Douban NeoDB WikiData TMDB IMDb Skybridge
Mars Attacks!
6.4 (14 ratings) director: Tim Burton actor: Christina Applegate / Jack Nicholson …
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).
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Dummy NeoDB Spotify Douban Discogs
8.7 (6 ratings) Portishead genre: Electronic
release date 1994-08-22 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 (1998) IMDb NeoDB TMDB KevGa-NeoDB KevGa-NeoDB Douban Skybridge WikiData
Godzilla
5.1 (9 ratings) 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.
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New World Disorder (1999) IMDb WikiData TMDB
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.
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Fin de Siècle Spotify
The Divine Comedy
release date 1998-08-31 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? :)
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Life Spotify
The Cardigans
release date 1995-03-01 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
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