The Driver
November 2, 2005
In the late ‘70s and early ‘80s Walter Hill was one of the best action/thriller directors. Like Don Siegel and Sam Peckinpah before him, Hill made lean, gritty no-nonsense genre pictures like The Warriors (1979), Southern Comfort (1981) and 48HRS...
The Lone Gunmen: The Complete Series
October 7, 2005
It must’ve seemed like a good idea at the time. Take the three most popular supporting characters from The X-Files and give them their own show. A few episodes aired before it promptly disappeared from our TV screens. So, what happened? Had Chris Carter...
Suspect Zero
October 6, 2005
Suspect Zero (2004) is yet another tired entry in the exhausted serial killer genre. This time out, Ben Kingsley gets his turn to play a creepy sociopath (although, he’s more John Doe from Seven than Hannibal Lector in Silence of the Lambs)—at least...
Enduring Love
October 6, 2005
There is something missing from British cinema, and Enduring Love is the best attempt at a clever, thought-provoking psychological thriller/drama that is ever gonna try and rival its American counterparts. This adaptation of an Ian McEwan best-selling...
The Final Cut
October 6, 2005
The Final Cut (2004) takes place in the near future where it is possible to have a device implanted in your body that records your life through your own eyes, from when you are born to when you die. Alan Hakman (Williams) is a “cutter,” someone who...
Criminal
October 6, 2005
Based on the movie, Nine Queens (2000), Criminal (2004) is the directorial debut of Gregory Jacobs, a protégé of filmmaker Steven Soderbergh (who also co-produced the movie). Stylistically speaking, the apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree. The...
Ocean’s Twelve
September 30, 2005
With big budget, star-studded casts like the one in Ocean’s Twelve (2004), there is always the danger of having them look too smug and self-indulgent instead of having fun along with the audience. Ocean’s Eleven (2001) managed to straddle this line...
Taxi
August 24, 2005
Inept cop Jimmy Fallon must team up with girl-racer Queen Latifah to catch a gang of wily bank robbers who also happen to be supermodels. A remake of French hit Taxi from 1998, Luc Besson again returns to produce this lightweight tale of cops n’...
Youth of the Beast
July 31, 2005
Youth of the Beast (1963) starts off in sobering black and white film stock as serious-looking police detectives investigate a double suicide. Cut suddenly to colour film stock of two girls laughing hysterically with frenetic jazz music crashing in. We’ve...
6ixtynin9
July 28, 2005
6ixtynin9 (1999) concerns the misadventures of a woman by the name of Tum (Panyopas) who is having, to put it mildly, a bad day. In a cruel twist of fate, she is randomly fired from her job. She gets home to find that the elevator in her building is out...
