In Bruges
Irish hitmen Ray and Ken (Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson) are sent to Bruges in this black comedy they should have called Low Countries for Old Men. Martin McDonagh’s 2008 […]
Tag Archives: 2008
Saw V
Agent Strahm (Scott Patterson) closes in on Jigsaw’s apprentice Detective Hoffman (Costas Mandylor) in this cop-on-cop sequel they should have called Interminable Affairs. By 2008 the Saw timeline had become […]
Chemical Wedding
Written by Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson, this 2008 sci-fi/horror movie sees a Cambridge professor (Simon Callow) don a virtual reality spacesuit and go Emeritus Psycho when he comes back as […]
Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging
Georgia Nicolson (Georgia Groome) is 14 going on incessantly about snogging in this 2008 adaptation of the UK’s 127th favourite book. I know I’m not the target audience for this […]
Twilight
It hardly seems worth recapping the story of the world’s second-most famous glitter-based paedophile (Robert Pattinson). What is surprising is how little happens in the course of this two-hour fantasy […]
Jumper
Nondescript white man David (Hayden Christensen) discovers he has the power to teleport at will, but he knits off more than he can chew when he’s hunted down by a […]
Ponyo
Newly reopened cinemas are releasing some classics back into the wild, including Studio Ghibli’s Ponyo; the story of a boy (Hiroki Doi) living on the coast who befriends a magical goldfish […]
Prom Night (2008)
Having run out of decent slasher flicks to remake in the noughties (A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Black “X-Mas”), Hollywood started scraping the barrel for properties that weren’t even […]
Screens of the Stone Age: 10,000 BC
In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history, lived a strange pair of goblins. They didn’t know who they were. Or what they were doing. So they […]
Valkyrie
Based on a true story, this is about the 1944 plot to kill Hitler and the rebels’ subsequent attempt to seize control of Nazi Germany, oblivious to their failed assassination […]
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