Movie Reviews 2005

 

Script skill OR Script kill

Kinky Boots (2005)

8  lightdrops

8/10 Lightdrops

 

Entertaining all the way through with a poignant kinky crescendo

 

A failing traditional shoe factory thinks outside the box and gets sexy upon meeting an unusual character. Sexual stereotypes and prejudices are challenged in their struggle to save the business and community. An acting performance worthy a standing ovation from the main protagonist. .

 

CAST: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Joel Edgerton, Sarah-Jane Potts, Nick Frost, Courtney Philip

DIRECTOR: Julian Jarrold

WRITERS: Geoff Deane, Tim Firth

V for Vendetta (2005)

9.5 lightdrops

9.5/10 Lightdrops

 

An iconic movie that you should watch or stay forever missing a few cogs in how you the individual citizen relate to politics.

 

Set in the near future "V" a mysterious freedom fighter seeks to overthrow an Orwellian tyranny.

CAST: Hugo Weaving, Natalie Portman, Rupert Graves, Stephen Fry, John Hurt

DIRECTOR: James McTeigue

WRITERS: The Wachowski Brothers / Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski (screenplay). Original story by Alan Moore and David Lloyd