August 2009
18 posts
The Year 2004: Dodgeball : A True Underdog Story... →
Once again the Reel Whore of ‘‘Reel Whore’ joins Counting Down The Zeroes, having recently celebrated his two year blog anniversary with a gorgeous makeover, to take aim at one of the year’s…
The Year 2004: Finding Neverland (Marc Forster) →
Joseph Belanger of the brilliant Black Sheep Reviews takes on Marc Forster’s follow up to the highly successful ‘Monster’s Ball’ with the bio-pic, ‘Finding Neverland’, about English playwright…
The Year 2004: The Life and Death of Peter Sellers... →
Counting Down The Zeroes welcomes back Joel (MovieMan0283) creator of the quite brilliant and eponymous The Dancing Image, which in the past month has just celebrated it’s one year…
The Year 2004: Closer (Mike Nichols) →
Patrick Marber’s acclaimed stage drama about the interactions of four people was given a reverent screen adaptation by Mike Nichols, a director and producer akin to adapting celebrated stage works,…
The Year 2004: Hellboy (Guillermo del Toro) →
Counting Down The Zeroes welcomes back J.D from the superb Radiator Heaven, and not only for yet another excellent submission but as team member, who will be on hand for the ever expanding…
The Year 2004: Love Song For Bobby Long (Shainee... →
Andrew Kendall of Encore’s World of Film & TV takes on 2004’s ‘underwhelming’ Love Song for Bobby Long, based on the novel Off Magazine Street by Ronald Everett Capps, starring John Travolta…
The Year 2004: Sideways (Alexander Payne) →
Counting Down The Zeroes welcomes Pat, of the fabulous Doodad Kind of Town, back to the project with yet another brilliant submission, check out her blog for more of the same. This time…
The Year 2004: Bad Education (Pedro Almodovar) →
Rick Olson of the superb Coosa Creek Cinema is back at Counting Down The Zeroes with this great review of Bad Education, his second submission to the project on the films of Pedro…
The Year 2004 - Ocean's Twelve (Steven Soderbergh) →
Counting Down The Zeroes has the pleasure of welcoming Bob Turnbull of the wonderful Eternal Sunshine of the Logical Mind, his classy film blog that’s currently taking in the sights at the …
The Year 2004: SARS Wars (Taweewat Wantha) →
Counting Down The Zeroes has the pleasure of welcoming back Peter Nellhaus of the superb Asian cinema centric blog Coffee, Coffee and More Coffee, who once again shines light on a film from…
The Year 2004: Spider-Man 2 (Sam Raimi) →
Counting Down The Zeroes welcomes the Film Dr, of the marvellous The Film Doctor, to the year 2004, where he takes on the highly successful sequel to the equally lucrative movie rebranding…
The Year 2004: Dawn of the Dead (Zack Snyder) →
Counting Down The Zeroes welcomes back Jason Soto of the Invasion of the B Movies, the master of the second rate, the king of the macabre, the wacky and the down right bizarre, who takes on…
The Year 2004: Downfall (Oliver Hirschbiegel) →
Counting Down The Zeroes welcomes Allan Fish, co-creator and scribe of the highly influential and inspirational film blog Wonders in the Dark, where you can catch Allan’s top 50…
The Year 2004: Collateral (Michael Mann) →
Counting Down The Zeroes has the pleasure of welcoming another new face to the project in the guise of Yeali, who hails from the superb blog, My First Farce, an account of her attempt at…
The Year 2004: The Passion of the Christ (Mel... →
This post was submitted by Stephanie Lundahl of the brilliant The Flick Chick The Passion of the Christ is a difficult movie to approach, seeing as it comes with so much baggage. Hailed…
The Year 2004: The Aviator (Martin Scorsese) →
This post, subtitled The Aviator: A Tribute to the Golden Age of Cinema, was submitted by Andrew Kendall of the great Encore’s World of Film & TV Martin Scorsese holds a strange…
The Year 2004: Undertow (David Gordon Green) →
This post was submitted by Kevin Olson of the marvellous Hugo Stiglitz Makes Movies When I think of the great opening scenes in film history I think of Argento’s Suspiria, Scorsese’s
The Year 2004: The Bourne Supremacy (Paul... →
This post was submitted by Tom Hyland of the superb Cinema Directives The Bourne Supremacy takes us on a journey quite similar to that of its predecessor, The Bourne Identity of two…
July 2009
39 posts
The Year 2004: Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession... →
This post was submitted by Greg Ferrara of the superb Cinema Styles
I’ve mentioned the Z channel on Cinema Styles before. In a long ago post on the Oscars in the seventies I mentioned…
The Year 2004: The Raspberry Reich (Bruce LaBruce) →
This post was submitted by Joe Bowman of the excellent Fin de Cinema In the years following the pinnacle of New Queer Cinema, the description “aggressively queer” doesn’t come up very…
The Year 2004: Sky Captain and the World of... →
Harking back to the sci-fi pulp of the 40’s, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is a lush, grand spectacle that was seen as something as a box-office flop back in 2004. Conran creates a look and…
The Year 2004: Tropical Malady →
Keng is a soldier patrolling around the jungle. One day he meets Tong, a local villager working as the ice cutter. The two of them meet again while their bus and truck stop on the street….
The Year 2004: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless... →
Former music director Michel Gondry takes another crack at a Charlie Kaufman script, one of the few writers in the business who’s name alone can sell a movie, and the results are simply…
The Year 2004 : Saw (James Wan) →
Four films later, with one in the pipeline, James Wan directorial début ‘Saw’ has now become a successful franchise which shows no signs of abating, revolving around the fictional psychopath…
The Year 2004: Dead Man Shoes (Shane Meadows) →
British director Shane Meadows has been forming a reputation, as an up and coming talent, for some years which arguably came to fruition with this genre revenge pic, about a solider returning to…
The Year 2004: Birth (Jonathan Glazer) →
Kicking off 2004, the fifth instalment in our attempt to chronicle the cinema of the noughties, is one of Counting Down The Zeroes most esteemed regular contributors. Jeff Ignatius, of the…
Goodbye 2003...Hello 2004 →
Well doesn’t time fly when you’re having fun. Unfortunately there’s no time to stop and smell the roses, in the coming weeks expect reviews on the biggest films of 2004 including Eternal Sunshine…
The Year 2003: A Year in Review →
With the year coming to an end, followers of this marathon series will know what’s coming next, T.S of the superb Screen Savour, takes us through 2003 in his fantastic review of the year,…
And The Winner Is...The Year 2003 in Awards →
Once again, with the year coming to a close, we’re starting to wrap things up with Joe Bowman’s, of the excellent Fin de Cinema, definitive list of all the year’s winners. Cannes, held 14-25 May…
The Year 2003: The Last Samurai (Edward Zwick) →
This post was submitted by Roy See of the brilliant ModernPost. Cruise gets an A for effort, and an F for being the main stumbling block in this epic on the demise of the samurai way…
The Year 2003: Jeepers Creepers 2 (Victor Salva) →
This post was submitted by Bill Courtney of the excellent ‘The Uranium Cafe’ I will start this review off by saying I really liked writer/director Victor Salva’s Jeepers Creepers II as…
The Year 2003: Dogville (Lars Von Trier) →
This post was submitted by Jospeh ‘Jon’ Lanthier of the fantastic ‘The Powerstrip’ and the Western-centric ‘Decisions at Sundown’, his latest, greatest blog creation. Due to both its…
The Year 2003: American Splendor (Shari Springer... →
This post was submitted by Britt Parrott of the superb Perhapses Docu-biopic? Biopicumentary? American Splendor, co-directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, takes a…
The Year 2003: The Dreamers (Bernardo Bertolucci) →
In 1968, students protested in France over what were some archaic rules that called for strict separation between the sexes in the universities. Through a complicated chain of events, this…
The Year 2003: The Brown Bunny (Vincent Gallo) →
Widely panned at Cannes in 2003 with audiences walking out in their hundreds, infamously sending it’s director on the war path and courting controversy with a explicit sex scene that became…
The Year 2003: Elephant (Gus Van Sant) →
Gus Van Sant’s minimalist and stunningly effective film, centered around a Columbine-style high-school shooting, took the Palme D’Or in 2003 at Cannes and returned the director to his indie…
The Year 2003: Saraband (Ingmar Bergman) →
Revisiting two characters from his previous film, Scenes from a Marriage, some thirty years earlier, Bergman’s Saraband turned out to be the cinematic craftsman’s last film to be released…
The Year 2003: School of Rock (Richard Linklater) →
Written specifically for the talents of overgrown kid Jack Black, Richard Linklater’s hit ‘fish out of water’ comedy from 2003 took the box-office by storm and the quirky and brilliant performance…
The Year 2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return... →
Without doubt Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King was the film event of the year, filmed back to back, Peter Jackson’s massive epic trilogy finally came to fruition, scooping a record tying…
The Year 2003: House of 1000 Corpses (Rob Zombie) →
I have to go on record as saying House of 1000 Corpses is perhaps one of the best and one of the worst horror films I have ever seen. Approximately three-fourths of it is edgy and…
The Year 2003: Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola) →
Sofia Coppola followed her impressive debut, The Virgin Suicides, with yet another polished and highly acclaimed film with Lost in Translation, a low-key and reflective film, about two lost souls…
Kill Bill: Vol 1 (Quentin Tarantino) →
2003 was a big year for me. I shot my very first short film – also coincidentally my only short film – and I got involved in theatre production. It was also a big year for one of my…
The Year 2003: Girl with a Pearl Earring (Peter... →
Aged only 19 years old, 2003 was the year of Scarlett Johansson, her meteoric rise to fame during the early noughties thrust the actress into several major films, Girl with a Pearl Earring, Peter…
The Year 2003: The Son (Jean-Pierre and Luc... →
To follow up their international hit and Palme D’Or winner Rosetta, Belgian auteurs and brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne built on their burgenoning repuation with yet another stylish and…
The Year 2003: Shattered Glass (Billy Ray) →
Based on the rise and fall of one Stephen Glass, the shining journalistic star of ‘The New Republic’ magazine, whose rapid rise set alarm bells ringing at rival publications and soon enough was…
The Year 2003: Code 46 (Michael Winterbottom) →
The prolific and wildly eclectic director Michael Winterbottom has always shown an incredible ability to move from genre to genre without breaking sweat and 2003’s ‘Code 46’ was no different, a…
The Year 2003: Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew... →
Andrew Jarecki’s award winning documentary Capturing the Friedman’s, a devastating portrait of a family torn apart, originally started life as a documentary on Manhattan’s most popular party…
The Year 2003: Bad Santa (Terry Zwigoff) →
Vulgar and profane, littered with obscenities and as unlikely a Christmas movie you’re ever likely to see, Terry Zwigoff’s Bad Santa took the holiday cheer and set alight to it, however despite all…
The Year 2003: Oldboy (Chan-wook Park) →
Marin of Movie Critic, host to the impressive sounding home of over 1,000 movie reviews, takes on one of year 2003’s biggest international hits. The highly stylised and accomplished looking…
The Year 2003: Open Range (Kevin Costner) →
Kevin Costner’s Open Range harks back to Westerns of yesteryear, pre-Leone and the revisionism of the 70’s, which evokes the films of Anthony Mann and John Ford with it’s tale of men of honour…