August 2004

Fahrenheit 9/11   It was election night 2000, and the U.S. presidential race was in a dead heat between Democrat Al Gore and Republican hopeful George W. Bush. Suddenly, Gore was reported, according to most of the major television networks, to have won Florida, a crucial Football Factory   You bastard!“, a reporter is knocked out and so begins The Football Factory. Don’t be fooled by the title; this is not a football film - it’s a hardcore, behind-the-scenes look at English football firms (supporter gangs). Based on the

July 2004

The Quiet American   The year is 1952; the place, South Vietnam. The sun is setting on the French occupation of Indochina and Thomas Fowler (played by Michael Caine), a rumpled reporter for The London Times cares more about his love, a local girl named Phuong Live from Baghdad   In the weeks leading up to the second U.S. invasion of Iraq, HBO released its made-for-television drama Live from Baghdad ,

June 2004

“The Whole Ten Yards”   In the beginning of The Whole Ten Yards, the sequel to the 2000 gangster-farce The Whole Nine Yards, retired hitman Jimmy “The Tulip”

May 2004

Lost in Translation   “Sometimes you have to travel halfway around the world to come full circle.” This pitch for Sofia Coppola’s spellbinding,

April 2004

The Passion Of The Christ   Mel Gibson’s The Passion of Christ – a profoundly moving religious epic or a move-over-Quentin Tarrantino panoramic painathon?

March 2004

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