RENT
Give me Rocky Horror, Evita and even Grease – and I’m there. Rent, however, proves to be the most mind-numbing musical-film experience I’ve had in years.
FIREWALL
A big pay-cheque and predictability are sadly the order of the day with Harrison Ford’s new action blockbuster, Firewall.
NUMBER 10
Starring Colin Moss, Number 10 takes its cue from the great sports films that have come before it, but it fumbles and drops the ball … horribly.
PROOF
Proof may scare off the mathematically challenged because of its premise but, if you stick with it, it becomes something you won’t want to stop watching.
CAPOTE
It’s not the most discussed film of 2005 but, with a stellar performance from Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote’s a film that deserves to be seen.
TRANSAMERICA
Oscar Nominated Felicity Huffman undergoes an amazing transformation to become Bree, a transsexual forced to deal with a son she didn’t know she had.
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
It’s no easy thing to write a review of a film which has become a cultural phenomenon, writes Luiz DeBarros in his take on Brokeback Mountain.
BREAKFAST ON PLUTO
Breakfast On Plutoexplores the subject of guys in girl’s dresses, but this time the material is allowed to take on a magical fairytale quality.
GREEN STREET HOOLIGANS
Elijah “Frodo” Woods takes on some real challenges in dreary old England as he fights off wave after wave of football fanatics in Green Street Hooligans.
DERAILED
Derailed, while being another formula driven Hollywood film, has some edge-of-your-seat moments and is not quite the train wreck that same have said it is.