Nourish Your Netflix

DAME's round-up of great movies you may have missed

By Daiana Feuer
Published: Dec 01, 2007

Galaxy Quest (1999)
Dir: Dean Parisot
Stars: Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Tony Shalhoub, Justin Long
A team of has-been TV-space-alien fighters has to act “for real” in order to save the good aliens from their evil alien conqueror, or face a doom shoddier than their plummeted careers: vaporization.

Dick (1999)
Dir: Andrew Fleming
Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Michelle Williams, Will Ferrell
Sure, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein cracked the Watergate scandal, but what if the true heroes behind the reveal were two fun-loving, slightly air-headed girls who happened to witness G. Gordon Liddy’s bad behavior and were able to outsmart President Nixon’s devious plans?

Heavenly Creatures (1994)
Dir: Peter Jackson
Stars: Kate Winslet, Melanie Lynskey
Young Winslet’s break-through film. Teenagers Pauline and Juliet will do anything to remain in the fantasy world they share of morphing gardens, strange figures, castles, and yes, Orson Welles…even if it means bloody murder to the Freudianth degree.

Truly, Madly, Deeply (1991)
Dir: Anthony Minghella
Stars: Juliet Stevenson, Alan Rickman
Nina must choose between real life and staying in love with her recently deceased boyfriend Jamie, whose strange new ghostly behavior begins to haunt her up the wall. Romantic, funny and provocative.

The Tall Guy (1989)
Dir: Mel Smith
Stars: Jeff Goldblum, Emma Thompson
Dexter the (tall) struggling actor’s chronic allergies introduce him to Kate the nurse; bliss turns sour when it’s man versus sex and success, but true love prompts the triumphant sacrifice of long-awaited professional achievement. And truly one of the funniest sex scenes ever. Rowan Atkinson does a delicious turn as an arrogant stage star.

Daiana Feuer is fond of admitting she learned English from the TV, though movies and Madonna should also be thanked. She came from Argentina at a young age, and likes to apply her cinematic language skills to video art and creative writing.

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