Chicken Run
In the original chick flick, the residents of an egg farm dream of escape from the tyrannical yoke of Mrs Tweedy (Miranda Richardson) and her scramble-brained husband. After hatching many […]
Tag Archives: 2000
Grateful Dawg
This 2000 documentary explores the musical partnership between David Grisman and Jerry Garcia, the world’s greatest mandolinist and guitarist respectively. Sorry if that’s controversial. People get very opinionated about mandolin […]
Sexy Beast
An ex-pat ex-con (Ray Winstone) has his retirement interrupted by his psychotic boss (Ben Kingsley) who arrives in Spain with all the charm and composure of an English person arriving […]
Shaft
John Shaft (Samuel L. Jackson), nephew of the original black private dick (Richard Roundtree), works for the NYPD in typically maverick style. But when a known racist (Christian Bale) escapes […]
Best in Show
From Spinal Tap‘s Christopher Guest, Best in Show applies the talents of the legendary mockumentarian to the self-evidently funny world of dog competitions. Canine-based hilarity ensues. The film follows several […]
High Fidelity
High Fidelity follows a grumpy record store owner as he talks us through all his breakups with non-stop music references. And like Barry Manilow, it turns out not to live up to its […]
X-Men
In the near future, people are being born with strange superpowers. Jean Grey (Famke Janssen) can read people’s minds, Cyclops (James Marsden) can shoot lasers from his eyes, and Halle Berry […]
O Brother Where Art Thou?
Modern retellings of classic tales are nothing new, from Baz Lurhmann’s Romeo + Juliet to Blancanieves, Snow White set in 1930s Spain. But this interpretation of Homer’s Odyssey – set […]
A Spike Lee Joint: Bamboozled
A black TV executive, Pierre Delacroix (Damon Wayans), is sick of not being appreciated by his white boss (Michael Rapaport), so comes up with a “minstrel show for the 21st […]
Rash of Bacon Part 3: Hollow Man
Hollow Man is a film by the always violent, always absurd Paul Verhoeven of Total Recall and Robocop. Like those films he’s in sci-fi territory again here, but there’s a […]
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