Showing posts with label Year: 2008. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Year: 2008. Show all posts

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)

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Written and directed by Mark Herman, this is an adaptation of a novel by John Boyne set in Poland during World War II.  The eight-year-old s...

Vantage Point (2008)

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A so-so political thriller that’s built around an interesting idea. We see the events leading up to (and away from) an assassination attempt...

Doubt (2008)

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Compelling drama adapted from the stage play by John Patrick Shanley.  It’s 1964. At a catholic school, the priest, Father Brendan Flynn (Ph...

Bitter & Twisted (2008)

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Written, directed by and starring Christopher Weekes, this is a brilliant Australian drama with flashes of comedy.  A couple struggle to com...

Gran Torino (2008)

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Excellent drama directed and produced by Clint Eastwood, who stars as Walt Kowalski, a grumpy, racist old Korean War veteran who slowly begi...

Sunshine Cleaning (2008)

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Absolutely superb drama.  Sisters Rose and Norah (Amy Adams and Emily Blunt) go into business clearing up after suicides and murders. This, ...

Definitely, Maybe (2008)

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A sweet and tender romantic drama directed by Adam Brooks.  A young girl (Abigail Brealin) quizzes her political consultant father (Ryan Rey...

In Bruges (2008)

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Directed and written by Martin McDonagh, this is a drama that also functions as a black comedy and a tense thriller.  Two hitmen (Brendan Gl...

Mamma Mia! (2008)

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Deeply strange film of the stage musical that’s built around songs by Abba. But whereas in the stage show the songs are all performed by the...

The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)

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Trashy historical drama.  Scarlett Johansson plays Mary Boleyn. Natalie Portman is her more famous sister Anne, the second wife of Henry VII...

Milk (2008)

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Biopic of Harvey Milk, who campaigned for gay rights in California until his assassination in 1978.  Sean Penn is superb in the main role, w...

Deception (2008)

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Thriller.  Jonathan McQuarry ( Ewan McGregor ) is a dull, socially withdrawn accountant who befriends Wyatt Bose ( Hugh Jackman ), a charism...

Frost/Nixon (2008)

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Historical drama detailing a celebrated set of 1977 TV interviews between David Frost ( Michael Sheen ) and US President   Richard Nixon (F...

The Happening (2008)

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Comically bad disaster film starring Mark Wahlberg and Zooey Deschanel as a couple on the run from a mysterious airborne virus that has so...

Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

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The plot is a little tricky to explain, so here’s what it says on the internet: “A teenager from the slums of Mumbai becomes a contestant on...

Taken (2008)

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Former CIA operative Bryan Mills ( Liam Neeson ) has to track down his teenage daughter (Maggie Grace) after she’s kidnapped by Albanians in...

Body of Lies (2008)

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Intelligent Ridley Scott CIA thriller that’s extremely gripping.  The CIA operative on the ground is Leonardo DiCaprio and his superior i...

Passchendaele (2008)

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Gruelling depiction of two battles in 1917. Paul Gross wrote, produced and directed, as well as starring as Canadian soldier Michael Dunne. ...

Man on Wire (2008)

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Documentary directed by James Marsh that details Philippe Petit's iconic 1974 high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade ...

Ghost Town (2008)

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Ricky Gervais stars as Bertram Pincus, a mean-spirited English dentist in New York who briefly “dies” on the operating table. When he recov...