Saw II
The franchise with the world’s shortest average shot length continues with this Poundland staple from 2005, and this time the Jigsaw Killer (Tobin Bell) has 8 people trapped in a […]
Tag Archives: 2005
My Name Is Albert Ayler
Kasper Collin’s 2005 documentary spotlights the eponymous saxophonist whose freeform playing in the 1960s rocked the jazz world back on its formal heels. People talk about rock bands being crazy […]
Red Eye
A Canadian, an Irishman and a statesman walk onto a plane in Wes Craven’s 2005 thriller. The story that sees a hotel manager (Rachel McAdams) caught up in a terrorist […]
Brick
Claire from Lost gets lost and Joseph Gordon-Levitt (currently MIA from acting) tracks her down in Rian Johnson’s debut feature. I’ve seen this film three times and still have no […]
Memoirs of a Geisha
A young girl, Chiyo (Suzuka Ohgo), is sold to a Kyoto geisha school by her struggling parents where she’s kept as a slave, eventually becoming a top geisha, threatening the […]
Walk the Line
Released two years after his death, this 2005 biopic of the Man in Black (Joaquin Phoenix) is more than just a Johnny Cash-in or answer to a pub quiz question […]
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 […]
Batman Begins
Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy won acclaim from critics, made billions at the box office and made it ok for adults to like superheroes. Now, with the next incarnation of Batman […]
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 […]
On iPlayer: Tsotsi
Tsotsi is a 2005 adaptation of the novel of the same name, written and directed by South African Gavin Hood. When Tsotsi (Afrikaans for “thug”) steals a car, he doesn’t realise there’s […]
