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 […]
Tag Archives: 2000s
The Woodsman
Sex offending is one of the toughest subjects you can tackle in a film, but there are some great examples of how to do it right. Films like Michael, Mysterious […]
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
A pair of brothers decide to rob a jewellery store, but when they bungle the heist, it sets in motion a chain of events that rocks their family to its […]
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Outlaw Jesse James (Brad Pitt) commands the loyalty of his bandits as they commit infamous train robberies, but when loner Robert Ford (Casey Affleck) tries to become part of the […]
Good
Viggo Mortensen plays Halder, an author and intellectual who is drawn into the Nazi party after his views on euthanasia are appropriated by the fascists. Mortensen here once again proves […]
On iPlayer: The Devil’s Double
One of the many things Saddam Hussein was known for was his use of body doubles, some of whom he reportedly made have plastic surgery to more closely resemble him. […]
Synecdoche, New York
A struggling New York playwright, Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman), is given a massive grant which he uses to create the most elaborate play ever imagined, incorporating his own life, and […]
Best Worst Movie
Troll 2 has been named by IMDb as the worst movie ever made. It holds a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and even its greatest admirers say it’s bad “by […]
The Core
When electromagnetic disturbances in Earth’s atmosphere start causing problems, the cause is traced to an anomaly in the planet’s core. Fortunately the technology required to tunnel to the core and […]
Revolver
I watched Revolver after I, in a moment of insanity, bought a Jason Statham box set. The first film I watched from it was War, a generic action movie with […]
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