Mexican director Alfonso Cuarön (who went on to win Oscars for Gravity and Roma) brings a darker feel to this third instalment in the series,…
Browsing: Movies – 2000s
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“Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?” It sounded like a duff…
Having previously appeared as a radio series, two record albums, novels, a 1981 television series, a computer game, a stage show, a comic book, a…
Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) is an exceptionally dedicated, overachieving London-based police officer whose arrest record is so high it makes the rest of the Metropolitan…
“Never sneak up on a man who’s been in a chemical fire.” Rod Kimble (Andy Samberg) is an incredibly naive and completely unskilled amateur stuntman…
This is the third major film adaptation of Richard Matheson’s 1954 novel of the same name, following The Last Man on Earth (1964) with Vincent…
Sam Dawson (Sean Penn) is a mentally challenged man with the intelligence of a seven-year-old. But he also has fathered a little girl. And when…
Private Joe Bauers (Luke Wilson), an “aggressively average” librarian in the US Army (average IQ, averagely inoffensive personality, even an average heart rate), has no…
“After I killed them, I dropped the gun in the Thames, washed the residue off me hands in the bathroom of a Burger King, and…
Public backlash and costly lawsuits force the US government to ban all superhero activity. “Supers” are granted amnesty on the condition that they permanently retire…
Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, this alternate-history war film – one of his most critically acclaimed and enduring cinematic masterpieces – is set in…
In 2008, few people outside comic book hardcore had even heard of Iron Man, and its star, Robert Downey Jr., was far from the box-office…
Quentin Tarantino hadn’t directed a film since Jackie Brown in 1997, but had been itching to tell this tale of a bride (Uma Thurman, a…
Uma Thurman stars as Beatrix Kiddo (“The Bride”) in the second half and conclusion to Quentin Tarantino’s epic two-part revenge saga. Originally shot as a…
Filmed in New Zealand, Peter Jackson’s 2005 remake of King Kong is set during the Great Depression and follows struggling filmmaker Carl Denham (Jack Black)…
This computer-animated martial arts comedy from DreamWorks is set in a version of ancient China and follows Po, an enthusiastic, clumsy giant panda (voiced by…
The heroism of firefighters is brutally exploited in this dishonest flick, eager to convert post-9/11 pain into cheap euphoria. Joaquin Phoenix and John Travolta co-star…
Set in the middle-class inner-city Sydney suburbs of Balmain and The Rocks. Lantana stars beloved Aussie actors, including Geoffrey Rush and Kerrie Armstrong, as well…
This isn’t some happy, kid-friendly adventure – it’s the story of how an entire world is plunged into war. To be precise, it’s the story…
This second instalment in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy was adapted from the second volume of J.R.R. Tolkien’s renowned fantasy novel. Adventurous hobbits…