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: 2001
Ocean’s Eleven
Danny Ocean (George Clooney) celebrates his release from prison by robbing three Las Vegas casinos, not including the Trump Casino because there’s presumably no money in it. Ocean’s Eleven is […]
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie) goes on a violent quest to stop the Illuminati from getting the power to control time. Fortunately she learnt everything she needs to know from her […]
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
David (Haley Joel Osment) is a robot designed to look like a young boy, and is the first of his kind designed to feel real love. He’s assigned to a […]
Jazz Odyssey: The Miles Davis Story
Produced for the 10th anniversary of his death, this 2001 documentary recalls the many milestones in the life and works of trumpeter Miles Davis, the jazziest jazz ever got and […]
Quiz Call: Harvard Man
A response to the question ‘Films with “Man” in the title‘, Harvard Man has the distinction of actually having the word ‘man’ in the title, unlike The Truman Show, The […]
The Pledge
Jack Nicholson plays Jerry White, a retiring cop who takes on one last case after some rather unreasonable battery farmers make him swear on his eternal soul to find the […]
Bridget Jones’s Diary
Bridget (Renée Zellweger) is jonesing for a man so badly that she’s not prepared to wait for one who’s actually nice to her. This 2001 rom-com is as lazy as […]
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 […]
Spirited Away
I regret to say that I’ve never seen an anime film. Given the number of fans the genre has even in the West, and the critical acclaim it receives, this […]
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