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 […]
Tag Archives: 2000s
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 […]
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 […]
Fracture
Fracture is the story of Ted Crawford (Anthony Hopkins), a wealthy aeronautical engineer who shoots his wife (Embeth Davidtz) after discovering her affair with a man half his age and about her […]
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