I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer
Eight years after I Know What You Did Last Summer, the fisherman killer has passed into folklore, described in hushed tones as “like Jack the Ripper except he never got […]
Tag Archives: 2006
Saw III
Saw III returns to the bathroom where it happened for a torture-based medical soap opera they should have called Back to the Suture. For a film that literally nobody is […]
Final Destination 3
After sitting out the sequel, series creator James Wong is back in the director’s chair for another Final Destination outing, and this time some unsuspecting high school kids are off […]
When a Stranger Calls (2006)
Tomb Raider and Expendables 2 director Simon West indulges his love of women running in tank tops and dredging up relics in this 2006 remake. This redundant rehash stretches the […]
The Devil Wears Prada
Continuing our accidental series of devil movies (and avoiding such titles as Devil’s Breath and The Devil’s Candy), The Devil Wears Prada follows a fresh-faced journalist (Anne Hathaway) starting work […]
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, […]
Snakes on a Plane
After witnessing a gang-related murder, Sean Jones (Nathan Phillips) is escorted by commercial jet (by an apparently cash-strapped FBI) to testify against gang boss Eddie Kim (Byron Lawson). But Kim […]
Starter for 10
Pencil-necked pushover Brian (James McAvoy) is a quiz-obsessed working class kid whose dreams come true when he gets on Bristol’s University Challenge team and meets not one but two generic […]
Curse of the Golden Flower
As the chrysanthemum festival approaches, trouble is brewing in the Chinese royal household as the Empress (Gong Li) plots revenge against her manipulative husband (Chow Yun Fat). Zhang Yimou, director […]
Quiz Call: Population 436
Here’s another ‘film with numbers in the title‘ that you’d likely only guess by shouting random numbers down the phone. Population 436 is a classic Quiz Call answer in that […]
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