The Royal Tenenbaums
After absentee patriarch Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman) announces he has just six weeks to live, his dysfunctional family of former child prodigies and washed-up overachievers reconnects against their better judgement. […]
Tag Archives: 2000s
Daredevil
Ben Affleck’s first attempt at his as yet unrealised goal of helming a franchise, Daredevil sees the eponymous hero blinded in a freak skateboarding accident. Attempting to cross Batman with […]
Dreamgirls
Bill Condon goes from Chicago to Detroit in this Oscar-winning musical about a Motown-type girl group (Jennifer Hudson, Anika Noni Rose and Beyoncé). Few genres are as homogeneous as music movies, […]
Elektra
Say what you like about the Ben Affleck movie Daredevil (not out loud, obviously) – it did well enough to get a spin-off centred around the hero’s love interest (Jennifer […]
Creep (2004)
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason was still in cinemas when Christopher Smith debuted a much more realistic film about London, cocaine and imprisonment. In a premise worthy of Bridget […]
The Island
A pair of clones (Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson) discover they are clones living in a clone compound, and the promise of an idyllic Island little more than an organ […]
Naboer
Not to be confused with the Australian soap, Naboer (Neighbours) is a Norwegian psychological thriller also known as Next Door. Newly single John (Kristoffer Joner) helps the women in the […]
On iPlayer: The Secret of Kells
Starting their tradition of losing Oscars to Pixar, Cartoon Saloon’s first feature concerns the creation of the Book of Kells – an Irish national treasure up there with Graham Linehan […]
Da Kath and Kim Code
Look at me Kimmy. Lot at me. Look at moiiiii. Now I’ve got one word to say to you: feature length episode. Made in 2005, between the show’s third and […]
Ghost Rider
Stunt rider Johnny Blaze (Matt Long) looks like a young Tom Cruise but following 20 years of brutal motorcycle accidents he ends up with the face of Nicolas Cage. After […]
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