Mindhunters (2004) – Review

It may sound like sacrilege to say out loud, but not every movie has to contain intelligent dialogue, smartly sketched characters and be scripted tighter

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Troy (2004) – Review

Once Ridley Scott’s Gladiator threw open the door of possibilities and revived the expired sword and sandals epics that used to populate the cinema of

Puppet Master Vs Demonic Toys (2004) – Review

After the Puppet Master gang had to suffer the indignity of an honest to God clip show for their last movie, you wouldn’t think there’d

Ocean’s Twelve (2004) – Review

Back in 2001, Steven Soderbergh and a team of Hollywood elites performed a stunning act of grand theft remake when painfully stylish heist remake Ocean’s

Cellular (2004) – Review

Do you know what’s quite satisfying? Digging out a forgotten action/thriller that turns out to be something of a little cracker. Usually these movies are

Man On Fire (2004) – Review

Thanks to movies like Taken, the subgenre of formerly dramatic actors suddenly becoming indestructible avenging angels have become a regular sight when someone wants to

Sniper 3 (2004) – Review

The most strange thing about the continuing adventures of Tom Berenger’s legendarily miserable, nine-fingered sniper is that he has continuing adventures in the first place.

Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow (2004) – Review

Nestled somewhere between the CGI sets of George Lucas’ Star Wars prequels and the green screen artistry of Sin City and 300, lies Sky Captain

Species III (2004) – Review

Even though I’d be willing to bet serious money that Peter Medak’s impressively dodgy Species II was a concerted attempted by the director to actually

Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning (2004) – Review

You have to give the the Ginger Snaps franchise all the respect in the world for the way it approached its sequels when the powers

Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence (2004) – Review

The Anime of Ghost In The Shell was always going to be a tough act to follow, but when it comes to the near-impenetrable world

Steamboy (2004) – Review

Back in 1988, anime director Katsuhiro Otomo established himself as one of the genre’s primary visualists thanks to the herculean accomplishment that was Akira, a

Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed (2004) – Review

In 2000, out of the frigid Canadian suburbs, loped Ginger Snaps, an absolute belter of a werewolf movie that blended lycanthrope lore and the rigours

Layer Cake (2004) – Review

Once upon a time, long before irreverent Neil Gaiman adaptations, psychotic twelve year-old vigilantes and groovy X-Men movies set in the swinging sixties, Matthew Vaughn

Starship Troopers 2: Hero Of The Federation (2004) – Review

My distrust at the direct to DVD sequels of the 90s and 00s used to be the hill I would happily die on as the

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

Collateral (2004) – Review

I’m of the admittedly mistaken belief that thanks to the God-tier quality of his 1995 crime epic Heat, everything Michael Mann has produced since has

Secret Window (2004) – Review

“Write what you know” has always been a major piece of advice when it comes to would-be authors and it’s obviously one that’s of prime

Taegukgi: The Brotherhood Of War (2004) – Review

One of the greatest legacies of Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan is that not only did it infuse the war movie with a brutal new

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