According to Christopher Nolan’s underrated magician-at-war film, The Prestige, there are three aspects to every magic trick: The Pledge, The Turn and The Prestige. Fittingly,
Tag: 2000s
Evolution (2001) – Review
The special effects comedy is a notoriously tough beast to pull off. Essentially perfected by Ghostbusters back in 1984, filmmakers have been trying to sniff
Haute Tension (2003) – Review
Anyone in the know would tell you: don’t fuck with New French Extremity because it would most likely fuck you back.Linked to the New Extremity
Equilibrium (2002) – Review
In the wake of The Matrix, it was unsurprisingly fair game for any kind of action/sci-fi that clothed its anti-establishment leanings in long black coats
The Gift (2000) – Review
Sandwiched between his earlier, gonzoid classics and his later, bigger budgeted, superhero phase, Sam Raimi had, what could be called his “sensible period”. Easing back
Exorcist: The Beginning (2004) – Review
I don’t know about you, but to me it seems like any attempt to sequelize William Friedkin’s seminal horror titan is destined to be as
Anacondas: The Hunt For The Blood Orchid (2004) – Review
No one ever goes sets out to make a bad sequel – or at least, I hope not. Oh sure, the money men probably can’t
Book Of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000) – Review
After its release in 1999, the impactful arrival of The Blair Witch Project meant that its minimalist, lost in the woods, camcorder shot, hellscape became
Lake Placid 2 (2007) – Review
Hey, anyone remember Lake Placid? Sure you do! It was that killer crocodile movie that came out in 1999 that had a surprisingly great cast
Insomnia (2002) – Review
Since drifting into the realms of the super-blockbuster with the likes of Batman Begins, is somewhat easy to forget the quieter and smaller affairs that
The Crow: Wicked Prayer (2005) – Review
If I had to pick out only one difference between James O’Barr’s gently vicious comic book, The Crow and the sequels that came in the
Memento (2000) – Review
Right from the beginning, Christopher Nolan has been obsessed with the way that time and narrative can be so easily be manipulated by the magic
Dog Soldiers (2002) – Review
You know, nothing gets my heart pumping more than a good, full blooded, horror debut and in 2002 we got an utter banger in the
The Crow: Salvation (2000) – Review
It was horribly ironic that The Crow franchise should have fallen under the ownership of Dimension – Miramax’s more genre focused arm – as it,
Open Water (2003) – Review
Back in 1999, a film was released that took not just the horror genre, but how such films were made and marketed altogether, and turned
Crank (2006) – Review
Aside from the early, mockney gangster stuff he did with Guy Ritchie and the first Transporter, does anyone here actually remember much of Jason Statham’s
Gladiator (2000) – Review
At one point in Gladiator, Ridley Scott’s epic exhuming and re-animating of the entire sword and sandal genre, Russell Crowe’s stoic general, Maximus Decimus Meridius,
The Way Of The Gun (2000) – Review
Before Christopher McQuarrie became Tom Cruise’s number one stunt enabler, he was most famous for penning the labyrinthian screenplay for Bryan Singer’s The Usual Suspects
The Rundown (aka. Welcome To The Jungle) (2013) – Review
As we gaze upon the blockbuster landscape of the present, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson not only stands as the most successful pro wrestler turned actor
Children Of The Corn (2009) – Review
I’m assuming you’re familiar with the old question that if a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does
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