Top flicks of the Noughties - 2005

40 Year Old Virgin
That Steve Carrel dude from Bruce Almighty got his own movie. Judd Apatow starts his super fast take over of the world alongside regular buddies Seth Rogen, Paul Rudd and wife Leslie Mann.

Brokeback Mountain
Never actually saw it but am sure it's good

Brothers Grimm
Matt Damon and Heath Ledger team up in Terry Gilliam's film about those lovely German boys who used to scare children half to death at night until all their stories got commercialised with happy endings and shit. Peter Stormare is wickedly brilliant as usual.

Elisabeth Town
"I'm fine."
Another son-returns-home-after-his-father-dies-and-meets-a-hot-chick film starring Orlando Bloom as the man who cost Alec Baldwin's shoe company almost a billion dollars... Written and directed by Cameron Crowe, methinks he chooses his soundtracks then writes the movies around them...

Fantastic Four
Didn't quite work... still nice to watch.

Flightplan
Jodie Foster in another tight space. She really must get out more.

Good Night and Good Luck
George Clooney directs a very stoic David Strathairn as one of America's most respected newsreader, Edward R Murrow during one of the US's most trying times.

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Anything that has anything to do with Stephen Fry, I'll be there. Fry voices the Guide in the latest remake of Douglas Adams' books. Sam Rockwell is Zaphoid Beeblebrox, Martin Freeman is the last man alive. Lots of shout-outs to the original. A great laugh!

Hostel
And so began my love of Eli Roth... Granted it's not the best horror film in the world, or the goriest but I frikken love it all the same. There's heaps of interviews and behind the scenes in the DVD and check out this podcast with Jeff Goldsmith and Eli Roth here (spoiler alert - it's about Hostel 2 but hey)

House of Wax
Any movie where you see Paris Hilton die is OK by me : )

Joyeux Noel
WATCH THIS FILM! Set in WW2, it's based on a group of soldiers and how they spend Christmas Eve. French, Scottish and German troops put down their weapons and share food and photos on theice cold battle field where only the day before, they were blowing each other up. A truly moving story and a magnificent film.

King King
Yay Peter Jackson!!

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
Robert Downey Jnr is one of my all time favourite actors (the other dude is Johnny Depp). I bloody loved this film! It is so well written, so funny and so witty, so absolutely Robert Downey Jnr. You must be nuts if you haven't seen this one yet.

Kung Fu Hustle
One of those lovely new wave martial arts films. Amazing effects!

Lord of War
Nick Cage does some OK films. Lord of War is one of them. There's an opening sequence as the camera follows the life of a bullet from construction to destruction. Brilliant!

Match Point
Woody Allen finds a muse in Scarlet Johansen and I find something to look at in Jonathon Rhys Meyers. Romantic story with a wicked twist!

Memoirs of a Geisha
Arthur Golden wrote the book, now there's a movie. Beautiful to watch.

Mission Impossible Three
... is only here because Simon Pegg was in it and JJ Abrams directed it.

Mr & Mrs Smith
It was pretty cool to watch. Nice script. Nice guns.

Munich
At the Berlin Olympics in 1972 a group of Israeli athletes were murdered. The games went on. This is the story of the men who were sent after the terrorists. Spielberg at his best. Daniel Craig has a South African accent. Cool.

Pride and Prejudice
Ahhhh... Mr Darcy

Saw 2
I actually liked this one more than the others. But then, it was written under a different title...

Serenity
Thank you Joss Whedon for making this movie even after those nasty people cancelled Firefly. I heart Captain Tightpants!!!

Sin City
Wow. Mickey Rourke. Fantastic.

The Descent
Really good Scottish horror flick about a group of chicks who go spelunking (cave looking) and come across some really scary shit!!

The Exorcism of Emily Rose
Watch Jennifer (daughter of John) Carpenter go all contorty and stuff.

The Proposition
Gritty, disturbing Aussie flick shot by Nick Cave (of Bad Seeds fame). Don't watch it after dinner.

The Weatherman
The other Nick Cage movie that I liked. Cage plays a weather dude who gets food thrown at him and his family goes through some tough times. Worth the watch.

Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
Burton does playdough. Really really well.

V for Vendetta
Another one with Stephen Fry! Hugo Weaving is V, a masked anti-hero hell bent on taking down the government, much like another guy did a few centuries ago. Damn good film, makes you want to blow stuff up afterwards. Not literally, but hey.

Wolf Creek
Not as scary as I'd hoped it would be but a darn corker of a flick. Aussies do good horror (we had to learn something from Ivan Milat).