Starring: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving Directors: Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski Genre: Sci-Fi Cert: 18 Released: 1999 When it comes to Sci-Fi block busters, they don’t come much bigger than “The Matrix”. A budget of 63m dollars, a cast of familiar names and a storyline as ambitious as any that have gone […]
Starring: Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Kerr Smith, Kristen Cloke, Daniel Roebuck, Roger Guenveur Smith, Tony Todd Director: James Wong Genre: Horror Cert: 15 Released: 2000 It’s a bunch of teenagers, a horror premise and a set of elaborately mapped out deaths – oh joy! When Alex (Sawa – “Casper”, “Now And Then”) experiences pre-flights nerves […]
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Jennifer Anniston, Timothy Spall, Dominic West Director: Stephen Herek Genre: Comedy Cert: 15 Released: 2001 Every young man’s dream becomes Mark Wahlberg’s reality in Stephen Herek’s “Rock Star”. Get out the hairspray and spandex, we’re set back in the mid-eighties, when hard-rock meant bands like Motley Crue, AC/DC, Bon Jovi and Def […]
Starring: Denzel Washington, Liev Schreiber, John Hannah, David Paymer, Vicellous Reon Shannon, Dan Hedaya, Deborah Unger Director: Norman Jewison Genre: Drama Cert: 15 Released: 1999 It’s almost fifteen years since Denzel Washington’s big breakthrough as Steve Biko in 1987 smash-hit, “Cry Freedom”. Since then he has become recognised as one of the finest actors of […]
Starring: Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood, Steven Culp Director: Roger Donaldson Genre: Drama Cert: 12 Released: 2001 “Thirteen Days” Is the terrifying true story of the time that nearly saw nuclear conflict between the worlds two big superpowers in 1962. With the Cold War in full effect between the US and the USSR, tensions are strained […]
Starring: Sam Neill, Kevin Harrington, Tom Long, Patrick Warburton, Roy Billing Director: Rob Sitch Genre: Comedy Cert: 12 Released: 2000 I seem to have an attraction this week to 1960s US government-based stories being dramatised on celluloid. Following my review elsewhere on the site of “Thirteen Days”, we now take a peak into the unlikely […]
Starring: Liv Tyler, Matt Dillon, John Goodman, Paul Reiser, Michael Douglas, Andrew Dice Clay, Reba McEntire Director: Harald Zwart Genre: Comedy Cert: 15 Released: 2001 When you decide to go see a film with Liv Tyler that is already immortalised by a car-washing scene where she sprays herself more than the car, you probably get […]
Starring: George Clooney, John Turturro, John Goodman, Tim Blake Nelson, Charles Durning, Holly Hunter Director: Joel Coen Genre: Comedy Cert: 15 Released: 2000 Sentenced to hard labour for a daring armoured car robbery, Ulysses Everett McGill (Clooney), convinces fellow convicts Pete (Turturro) and Delmar (Nelson) to escape with him and find the loot that he […]
Starring: Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt Director: Robert Zemeckis Genre: Drama Cert: 12 Released: 2000 Chuck Noland (Hanks) is a busy FedEx executive who continually delivers the message of the importance of time to FedEx employees around the world. Just before Christmas he is called away on business and kisses his sweetheart, Kelly (Hunt), telling her […]
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenneger, Michael Rapaport, Tony Goldwyn, Michael Rooker, Robert Duvall Director: Roger Spottiswoode Genre: Sci-Fi Cert: 15 Released: 2000 We’re vaguely told that it is sometime in the future and while human cloning is outlawed, the cloning of animals has become an acceptable way to replace that dead pet situation that we all hate […]
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