Billy Elliot (2000)

A young boy called Billy Elliot (Jamie Bell) is torn between his love of dancing and family expectations during the miners’ strike in the early 1980s. It also stars Gary Lewis as Billy’s father, and Julie Walters as Mrs Wilkinson, Billy’s dance teacher. I remember that I watched some of this film when I was […]

Coyote Ugly (2000)

‘I’m a Coyote!’ A waitress turned songwriter named Violet (Piper Perabo) moves to New York City and gets a job as a dancer at Coyote Ugly- a local hotspot for live music and suggestive dancing at the bar. I was mostly aware of this film from the song ‘Can’t fight the Moonlight’ by Leann Rimes, […]

Requiem for a Dream (2000)

‘I’m going to be on television, I just have to find out when’ As soon as films deconstruct or reverse the American Dream, they bring to light how false the idea of it is. Requiem for a Dream is a good example of it. It follows the lives of Harry (Jared Leto), his girlfriend Marion […]

Whatever it Takes (2000)

‘Hey, that’s my Jello!’ In desperate times of quarantine, I have given into watching terrible films. This is one of them. It is about a boy named Ryan (Shane West) who is unaware they his neighbour loves him. It also stars the young James Franco as the atypical popular guy Chris (why are all the […]

Final Destination (2000)

‘So, who’s next?’ I could have sworn that in the early to late 00s then there was a brief revival in the gory horror trend left over from the 1980s. Final Destination is the first of many in the series, and it follows the story of a teenager named Alex (Devon Sawa) who predicts a […]

American Psycho (2000)

‘I have to return some videotapes’ American Pyscho is one of those films whereby I had seen bits of it before watching the full film. While it is not the best film in the world, it isn’t exactly the worst either. It integrates yuppie culture with psychopathic tendencies, along with little hints and clues throughout […]