Showing posts with label Year: 2005. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Year: 2005. Show all posts

A History of Violence (2005)

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Thriller directed by David Cronenberg.  An “ordinary” American, Tom Stall, works in a cafe in a small town. One day, a pair of crooks come i...

Derailed (2005)

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Engaging but in places extremely far-fetched thriller. Clive Owen meets Jennifer Aniston on a train and they begin a passionate fling. In a ...

Hide and Seek (2005)

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Psychological thriller directed by John Polson. New York psychologist Dr. David Callaway (Robert De Niro) finds his wife dead in the bathtub...

The Weatherman (2005)

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Extremely downbeat drama with flashes of comedy.  Nicolas Cage plays a TV weatherman having problems with his dying father (Michael Caine), ...

Flightplan (2005)

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Taut thriller directed by Robert Schwentke and later seemingly echoed by Non-Stop (2014).  The oddly named Kyle Pratt (Jodie Foster) is a r...

Lord of War (2005)

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Written, produced, and directed by Andrew Niccol, this is a superb crime drama with flashes of black comedy.  Nicolas Cage plays Yuri Orlov,...

Proof (2005)

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Excellent drama, directed by John Madden and adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by David Auburn.  A brilliant mathematician, Rober...

Cinderella Man (2005)

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Powerful biopic of world heavyweight boxer James J. Braddock, directed by Ron Howard.  Russell Crowe plays the poor New Jersey man who tries...

Because of Winn-Dixie (2005)

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A charming film that’s superficially for children but which actually has a far wider appeal.  A 10-year-old American girl named Opal Buloni ...

Two for the Money (2005)

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Extremely unusual drama Al Pacino plays a charismatic gambling addict who has built a career advising other gamblers on which way to bet on...

The Interpreter (2005)

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An interpreter at the United Nations ( Nicole Kidman ) overhears a conversation that suggests the leader of an African state is to be assass...

The Constant Gardener (2005)

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Thriller adapted from the John Le Carre novel, with an emotional dimension you wouldn’t usually expect from that genre.  Ralph Fiennes play...

Kingdom of Heaven (2005)

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Ridley Scott is responsible for at least six great films ( Alien , Blade Runner , Black Hawk Down , Body of Lies , Gladiator  and  Thelma ...

Elizabethtown (2005)

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Slightly awkward comedy-drama directed by Cameron Crowe .  Drewe ( Orlando Bloom ) works as a designer for a shoe company and somehow manage...

Match Point (2005)

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Excellent drama written and directed by Woody Allen . Critics were harsh on the fact that an American film set in London features some occa...

Broken Flowers (2005)

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Comic drama directed by Jim Jarmusch . Don Johnston (played by Bill Murray and with a name that gets him deliberately confused with the Mia...

King Kong (2005)

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Peter Jackson’s epic remake of the monster classic is every bit as big and bold as its subject.  The generally underrated Naomi Watts is su...

Hidden a.k.a. Caché (2005)

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Brilliant French thriller.  TV presenter Georges Laurent (Daniel Auteuil) and his wife Anne ( Juliette Binoche ) start receiving mysterious ...

The Island (2005)

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As the back of the DVD explains: “ Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson lead an all-star cast as residents of an isolated, high-tech compo...

Fantastic 4 (2005)

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Ludicrous Marvel film, which I found – still shrinkwrapped – on a bench in West Finchley . Plot: five people are exposed to mysterious cosm...