Loosely based on real-life Soviet smuggler Viktor Bout, Lord of War explores the dark, corrupt, and highly profitable world of global arms trafficking, tracking the…
Browsing: Movies – 2000s
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“Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrival gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion is starting to make…
Set in 1973, the story is narrated by Susie Salmon (Saoirse Ronan), a 14-year-old girl from the small town of Norristown, Pennsylvania. In the opening…
Royal Navy Captain Jack Aubrey – aka “Lucky Jack” – is a courageous and wily warrior, a natural leader, a tolerably good fiddle-player and an…
Set in Washington DC in the year 2054, the story – based loosely on a 1956 short story by Philip K. Dick – follows a…
FBI Special Agent Gracie Hart (Sandra Bullock, who also produced the film) is tough and pragmatic and lacks any traditional sense of femininity. When a…
In this adaptation of a Stephen King story, Thomas Jane plays David Drayton, an artist who is trapped in a small town grocery store in…
Hank Grotowski (Billy Bob Thornton) is an old-school racist. Whether he looks at black people the way he does because of his job – he…
Susan Murphy (voiced by Reese Witherspoon) is rejected by her fiancé after she is hit by a meteorite on her wedding day and grows to…
Monstropolis is a large company town where monsters of all sizes and shapes reside. It’s where James P. Sullivan (known as “Sulley”) and his friend,…
Set in the near future, Moon follows Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell), a lone worker nearing the end of a three-year contract at a lunar mining…
This film is apparently based on mysterious events that reportedly occurred in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, in the mid-60s, as recounted in a 1975 book…
A T-Rex skeleton, statues of Attila the Hun and Teddy Roosevelt, and stuffed lions are among the exhibits that come to life in Night at…
Directed by Paul Goldman, this Australian/American co-production brings a satirical, lighthearted take on the true story of the intense week-long media circus dubbed the “Siege of…
“What’s the most you ever lost on a coin toss?” Set in Texas in 1980, the extraordinary first hour of No Country for Old Men…
Sweet-natured Kansas waitress Betty Sizemore (Renée Zellweger) dreams of becoming a nurse. When she witnesses her sleazy, drug-dealing, wife-abusing car salesman husband Del (Aaron Eckhart)…
It would have been easy for Robin Williams to play Sy Parrish – “Sy the Photo Guy” to his customers – as the monster at…
Newly-divorced Meg Altman (Jodie Foster) and her 11-year-old daughter, Sarah (Kristen Stewart), tour a large, neglected Manhattan brownstone that formerly belonged to a reclusive, paranoid…
In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the commercial sword-fishing…
This third instalment in the Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise concludes the storyline started in Dead Man’s Chest (2006). The two movies were filmed…