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Twelfth Night (1996)
- Dir. Trevor Nunn
Feat. Helena Bonham Carter, Richard E. Grant, Nigel Hawthorne…
- William Shakespeare is rediscovered yet again, in one of his wittier flights of fancy, served up with such 90s icons as Helena Bonham Carter, Richard…
Twelve Monkeys (12 Monkeys) (1996)
- Dir. Terry Gilliam
Feat. Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt, Madeleine Stowe
- Ingenious time–travel epic is a long overdue shot in the arm to the sci–fi genre. Terry Gilliam (BRAZIL) notches up another beautiful and…
Twister (1996)
- Dir. Jan De Bont
Feat. Bill Paxton, Helen Hunt, Philip Seymour Hoffman…
- Big kids and little kids will be enthralled by the special effects on offer here, though let it be said the script suffers under its obligation to…
Two Days in the Valley (2 Days in the Valley) (1996)
- Dir. John Herzfeld
Feat. James Spader, Danny Aiello, Teri Hatcher…
- Devilishly hip comedy fires off rounds of tension and big laughs with oozy confidence. A ruddy collection of LA stereotypes – hitmen, hustlers…
Ultraman - Zearth 1 (1996)
- Dir. Shinya Nakajima
- A mockingly ludicrous homage to the long–running Japanese TV serial, in which the heroic MYDO (Mysterious Yonder Defence Organisation) must…
Van, The (1996)
- Dir. Stephen Frears
Feat. Colm Meaney, Donal O'Kelly, Ger Ryan…
- Conclusive chapter of writer Roddy Doyle's informal trilogy started by THE COMMITMENTS and THE SNAPPER. Colm Meaney returns as the cheery Irish…
Vanity Fair (TV Mini-series) (1996)
- Dir. Marc Munden
Feat. Natasha Little, Nathaniel Parker, Frances Grey
- BBC adaptation of William Thackery's 19th century satire of class snobberies in which social–climbing Natasha Little socially negotiates the…
Walking and Talking (1996)
- Dir. Nicole Holofcener
Feat. Catherine Keener, Anne Heche, Liev Schreiber
- A sort of femme flipside to 'Swingers', two women – one single, one about to be married – work out their romantic hangups in original and…
Water Rats (TV Series) (1996)
- Feat. Colin Friels, Catherine McClements, Steve Bisley…
- Classic Aussie sea–going crime–fighting police action show from the 90s, somewhat like an antipodean version of Baywatch. Ran for six…
Weatherwoman Returns (1996)
- Dir. Tomoaki Hosoyama
Feat. Misa Aika, Kiyomi Ito, Ayako Kato
- Sequel to WEATHERWOMAN, is equally unsettling in the way its nasty thrills are clad in cheap satire. As in the first, the rivalry between various TV…