The plot picks up five years after 1981’s Superman II – director Bryan Singer wisely ignores the two other film sequels in the Superman canon.…
Browsing: Movies – 2000s
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Gabriel Shear (John Travolta) is a charismatic, eccentric, ruthlessly pragmatic operative who leads a rogue counter-terrorist unit called Black Cell. He believes in using extreme,…
Fat boys take heart. Here’s the date movie of your dreams. Director Jenniphr Goodman’s sparkling feature debut has the tang of fresh comic thinking. Dex,…
Neo-fascist skinhead Combo (an exceptional Stephen Graham) has recently been released from Her Majesty’s Pleasure and has vendettas to vent. Combo wasn’t always this way.…
At Fort Polk, Louisiana, in 1971, American soldiers undergo advanced infantry training at a facility – they call it ‘Tigerland’ – designed to look, feel,…
The 1895 novel by HG Wells was a cautionary tale about class-based society as much as a work of speculative fiction. Not that you’d know…
Ambitious rookie LAPD officer Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawke) is undergoing a gruelling one-day evaluation to join an elite undercover narcotics squad. His evaluator is Alonzo…
The 2008 satirical action comedy Tropic Thunder follows a group of self-absorbed actors attempting to film a high-budget Vietnam War epic in Southeast Asia, based…
Philadelphia security guard David Dunn (Bruce Willis) is going through a failing marriage and an identity crisis. His life changes instantly when he becomes the…
Carl Fredricksen (voiced by Ed Asner) is a grumpy 78-year-old retired balloon salesman. Following the death of his beloved wife Ellie, Carl faces forced relocation…
Written by the transgender Wachowski brothers, Andy (Lili) and Larry (Lana) – and directed by first-timer James McTeigue (their assistant on The Matrix) – the…
With its annual Giant Vegetable Competition mere days away, a British village is being ravaged by scores of produce-chomping rabbits. Enter bumbling inventor Wallace (voiced…
Previously filmed in 1953, Steven Spielberg’s gritty, modern reinterpretation of H.G. Wells’ classic 1898 novel is a disaster epic of two halves. The first hour…