Murder at 1600 (1997)

Calamity in the White House, a movie motif on the increase after 1996s Mars Attacks and Independence Day, continues with this 1997 action mystery in which Wesley Snipes' get-in-there-and-do-it detective and Diane Lane's cool give-nothing-away Secret Service agent investigate the murder of a woman in a White House toilet cubicle and the pair of investigators go renegade, even breaking into the White House via its unsecured access tunnels, when they uncover a, yawn, conspiracy involving the President, the President's son, an international hostage situation, and a motive for murder that very strongly suggests - again - that film thinks women are completely disposable objects.

★★☆☆☆

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White Men Can't Jump (1992)

A mismatched pair of grifters good at shooting hoops takes advantage of racial stereotypes to hustle money from streetball players who assume Woody Harrelson's ex-basketballer, Billy Hoyle, a white man, can't play, in this shrill, shouty and strangely very popular sports comedy drama from 1992.

★★☆☆☆

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Blade (1998)

The appeal of this film that spawned two follow-ups (Blade II (2002) and Blade: Trinity (2004)) escapes me - it's alright but a rather ugly horror-comicbook hybrid about a human-vampire hybrid charged with saving humanity, primarily of interest for being a pre-MCU era (Marvel Cinematic Universe era) superhero movie, bloody and grim and despondent where today's Marvel blockbusters are all sleek with fast-talking smart-arse superheroes.

★★☆☆☆

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