Batman – the secret crime-fighting vigilante alter ego of tortured billionaire Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) who was introduced in Batman Begins (2005) – has formed…
Browsing: Movies – 2000s
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Sam Neill and Peter O’Toole star in an enigmatic tale of grumpy old codgers, intoxicating wines and reincarnated dogs. Adapted from Lord Dunsany’s 1936 novella…
This British psychological thriller from writer and director Neil Marshall is chock-full of merciless, pulverising, nerve-frying shocks. Unlike Marshall’s Dog Soldiers (2002), which focused on…
This sinfully funny, deliciously glossy film is a take on the 2003 bestseller by Lauren Weisberger (who denied writing it as a poison-pen letter to…
District 9 opens 20 years in the past, when a huge alien spaceship hovers crippled above Johannesburg, South Africa, carrying millions of emaciated aliens. The…
Ignoring the childish campfire stories about the area, a group of sloppy British squaddies heads out on a training mission against an elite Special Forces…
Vindicating her then-unprecedented $20 million fee, Julia Roberts won most of the major acting awards, including a Best Actress Oscar, for her performance as the…
This stylish, if curiously suspense-free prison thriller sees lifer convict Frank Perry (Brian Cox) – 14 years into a life sentence – attempting a breakout…
After a tumultuous two-year relationship with Joel Barish (Jim Carrey) and a painful breakup, free-spirited, impulsive, neon-haired Clementine Kruczynski (Kate Winslet) undergoes a high-tech procedure at…
Pixar, the animation house behind Monsters, Inc., A Bug’s Life and the two Toy Story classics, lands another winner for Disney. Kids stuff? You tell…
Flushed Away is an entertaining cartoon for the proverbial “all ages” which traces the adventures of Roddy St. James, a pampered pet mouse who lives…
“My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions and loyal servant to the true emperor,…
Step right up for two movies for the price of one: Death Proof, directed and written by Quentin (Pulp Fiction) Tarantino, and Planet Terror, directed…
Two days before his wedding, Doug Billings (Justin Bartha) travels to Las Vegas for a bachelor party with his best friends Phil (Bradley Cooper) and…
This sequel to the Oscar-winning 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs is adapted from Thomas Harris’s bestselling 1999 novel and is set seven years…
This second instalment in the Harry Potter film franchise followed Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (2001) and was based on J.K. Rowling’s 1998 fantasy…
Now aged 14 and starting his fourth year at Hogwarts, young wizard Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) faces a daunting challenge after being mysteriously entered into…
In the outstanding sixth adaptation of J.K. Rowling’s fantasy series, Hogwarts is no longer a safe space as Death Eaters wreak havoc in both the Muggle…
Marked by a significantly darker, more political tone than its predecessors, this film – the fifth in the Harry Potter series – follows Harry’s isolation as the…
Based on J.K. Rowling’s 1997 debut novel, the film follows Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe), an orphaned 11-year-old boy raised by his neglectful and abusive maternal…