Howard Payne, the disgruntled mad bomber Dennis Hopper plays with a bug-eyed, Frank Boothian relish in the 1994 action thriller Speed, riddles his cop rival with a pop quiz: “Do you know what a bomb ...

The films of 1994 cover such a wide spectrum of genres, movements and filmmakers that any individual list of favorites from the year is likely to yield wildly different results. The indie industry ...