Raising Helen (2004)
Helen Harris (Hudson) is a 20-something up-and-comer in the fashion industry, putting it all on the line for her career while still able to partake of the Manhattan party atmosphere she knows inside and...
Category: 2000s
District B13 (2004) | District 13 | Banlieue 13
With a premise not dissimilar to that of Escape from New York (with a heavy nod to John Carpenter’s other crime thriller, Assault on Precinct 13), a thriller style not far from that of The Rock, and action...
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Some people have been calling The Day After Tomorrow a throwback to the Irwin Allen disaster films of the 1970s, but in reality, it is more of a throwback to the disaster films of the...
Fourplay / Londinium / Love Affairs / Life After Sex (2001)
Mike Binder (of HBO’s “The Mind of the Married Man”) writes, directs and stars as Ben Greene, a successful American sitcom writer who is hired in Great Britain to work on a sitcom starring...
Le Divorce (2003)
Somewhere in the confines of Le Divorce is an entertaining film yearning to get out. Sadly, it is not to be, as the Merchant-Ivory team fails to deliver their usual whimsical charm, seeming uncomfortable with...
Shrek 2 (2004)
A sheer delight from beginning to end, Shrek 2 manages to be even better than its now classic predecessor in scope and humor value. Whether or not the pop references and modern jokes will stand the...
Lost in Translation (2003)
Ten years before the release of Lost in Translation, Bill Murray opted to star in a light romantic comedy, Groundhog Day, and although I’m a big fan of Murray’s schmoozy slapstick flicks, I just shook my head when...
Van Helsing (2004)
Stephen Sommers, the writer-director of the successfully revamped creature features The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, tries to strike up another franchise with Van Helsing, another throwback to the pantheon of monster movies released in the 30s...
Shade (2003)
I suppose that if you were to never have seen a film involving grifters, especially one of the many to have emerged in just the past five years alone, you might find Shade to be passable,...
Lost in Time (2003)
Lost in Time is a modest tearjerker that winds up succeeding because we really do end up feeling for the characters, hoping they can find some sort of happiness in the end. Directed by Derek...