Bee Movie
A bee (Jerry Seinfeld), destined to slave in a honey factory for eternity, breaks free and discovers the precious golden goo is being sold to humans en masse and resolves […]
Tag Archives: 2000s
Planet of the Apes (2001)
Between 2013 and 2016 we reviewed every Planet of the Apes film (with the addition of War for the Planet of the Apes when it was released in 2017). Every […]
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 […]
Jennifer’s Body
Megan Fox plays a transformer of sorts in Diablo Cody and Karyn Kusama’s feminist horror/comedy, whose high school succubus plot resembles a combination of the novels My Best Friend’s Exorcism and We Sold Our Souls by […]
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 […]
Naqoyqatsi
In part 3 of Godfrey Reggio and Philip Glass’s Qatsi trilogy, we see life at war as politicians, religious symbols, money, power and computers vie against each other through digital imagery. […]
I’ve Never Seen… Elf
Welcome to a festive edition of the feature where we finally get round to a classic that’s passed us by, like the Marcus Brigstocke programme I’ve Never Seen Star Wars except we […]
Coach Carter
Samuel L Jackson plays a no-nonsense coach who joins a California school to turn its rag-tag team of angry youths into an academically successful winning team. Based on a true […]
Goodbye Lenin! and The Lives of Others
Set in East Berlin in 1989, Goodbye Lenin! is the story of woman (Katrin Sass) who wakes up from eight months in a coma, having completely missed the fall of […]
Burn After Reading
A recently dismissed CIA analyst is blackmailed by a pair of hapless gym workers who stumble on a CD ROM containing his memoirs. Linda and Chad (Frances McDormand and Brad […]
