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Luella MillerLuella Miller (2005)
Dir. Dane Giraud
Feat. Sara Wiseman, Philip Brown, Sia Trokenheim
Competent local drama set in a small country town, where quiet lifestyle and gentle intrigues are disrupted by the arrival of an enigmatic young…
Malice Aforethought (TV Mini-series)Malice Aforethought (TV Mini-series) (2005)
Dir. David Blair
Feat. Ben Miller, Barbara Flynn, Megan Dods
Ironically fashioned PBS tele–mystery has a frustrated doctor (Miller) driven to dose his overbearing wife (Flynn) with poisons, but having to…
Matador, TheMatador, The (2005)
Dir. Richard Shepard
Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Greg Kinnear, Hope Davis
Deftly–toned comedy tracks the chance meeting in Mexico City of a sleazy, aging hitman (Brosnan) and a struggling dotcom consultant (Kinnear),…
Match PointMatch Point (2005) Aro Favourite
Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Emily Mortimer, Scarlett Johansson
Widely touted as Woody Allen's finest film since the mid–80's, this is also his least characteristic – set in London and entirely…
MunichMunich (2005) Recommended
Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Mathieu Kassovitz
Compelling, if occasionally muddily–overearnest thriller based around the aftermath of the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich…
Murder Take OneMurder Take One (The Big Scene) (2005)
Dir. Jin Jang
Feat. Ha-kyun Shin, Seung-Won Cha
Thwarted by a television agreement consigning an ongoing homicide investigation to the prying eyes of a Reality TV show, prosecutor Choi (Cha) must…
Numbers (TV Series)Numbers (TV Series) (Numb3rs) (2005)
Feat. Rob Morrow, David Krumholtz, Judd Hirsch
An original and enjoyably intellectual take on the crime–solving TV genre, which entertains the concept of an FBI agent (Morrow) employing his…
Paradise NowParadise Now (2005) Recommended
Dir. Hany Abu-Assad
Feat. Kais Nashef, Ali Suliman, Lubna Azabal
This extraordinarily brave film shadows the martyrdom of two Palestinian friends recruited by an extremist group to perpetrate a suicide bombing in…
Princess AuroraPrincess Aurora (Orora gongju) (2005)
Dir. Eun-jin Bang
Feat. Jeong-hwa Eom
Korean revenge film concerns a scorned woman who commits a series of murders as part of an elaborate revenge scheme. Far–fetched in that…
Prison Break - Season 1 (TV Series)Prison Break - Season 1 (TV Series) (2005) Recommended
Feat. Dominic Purcell, Wentworth Miller, Stacy Keach
Making a masterfully gripping series out of its preposterous premise, this finds a wealthy architect (Miller) enfurl an elaborate plan to rescue his…

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