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 […]
Tag Archives: 2006
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 […]
Goodbye Lenin! and The Lives of Others
Set in East Berlin in 1989, Goodbye Lenin! is the story of woman (Katrin Sass) who wakes up from eight months in a coma, having completely missed the fall of […]
The Banquet
Shakespeare’s Hamlet is transported back 2,000 years to the opulent surroundings of ancient China, where trouble is brewing in the imperial court. The Crown Prince Wuluan (Daniel Wu) is in […]
X-Men: The Last Stand
Long enough after X2 for the X Mansion to be rebuilt, things are looking up for the magnificent mutants. Magneto is on the run, there’s a mutant in the cabinet, […]
Apocalypto
I’ve put off watching this for a while. If it’s any good an American director will remake it in English. Oh wait… Mayan certainly isn’t the most common of languages […]
Children of Men
It’s 2027. No new babies have been born since 2009 and the world’s youngest person has just been killed at the age of 18. Theo (Clive Owen) works for a […]
Kenny
Kenny is a mockumentary which follows Kenny Smyth (Shane Jacobson), who works for a portaloo company in Australia. The style of the film is similar to previous mockumentary comedies like […]
