The plot thickens... Jim and Michael are both becoming increasingly insane, but also beginning to look more like friends than foes in the face of the sinister conspiracies. The concluding episode continues to set the screen alight and Bleasdale's message is superbly hammered home.
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HELL HOUSE (2001)
CertificationE Our Rating
The Trinity Assembly of God Church in Texas has created it's own alternative to the haunted house of dishevelled fair grounds. ‘The Hell House', a comparatively lavish production of horrors, but crucially, ones here on earth; abortions, AIDS, drugs, rape. Everything gets the faithful's naïve but graphic interpretation. Ratliff's documentary is an admirably unbiased look at an agonisingly myopic and intolerant world view, but his skill as an observer leaves you almost as sympathetic for the prota
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INTERROGATION (1982)
Certification18 Our Rating
After a one-night stand with a military officer, a cabaret singer is imprisoned by the secret police, without ever being informed of her alleged crime. For the next five years, she is subjected to harrowing torture and harassment, which she doggedly withstands in a struggle to maintain her dignity and sanity. Interrogation was banned by the Polish government for being 'inflammatory and dangerous'. Years later director Bugjaski smuggled a copy out of the country where it debuted at Cannes in 1990
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MORGAN: A SUITABLE CASE FOR TREATMENT (1966)
CertificationPG Our Rating
A perfect example of 60's cult classic that is mercifully absent of kitchen sink syndrome. Morgan is an anarchistic artist and a man for whom the words sanity and restraint are merely the chains that bind others. Obsessed with winning back the affections of his soon to be married ex-wife, Morgan will go to any lengths to achieve his goal, and the surrealer the better. Morgan: A Suitable Case For Treatment is blessed with an iconic British cast in their formative cinematic careers, sharp witty d
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SHOOTING DOGS (2005)
Certification15 Our Rating
1994, 800,000 killed in 100 days, a Catholic priest and an idealistic young English teacher are caught, both literally and morally, in the midst of the horror. How can they help the thousands of refugees who flee to their school, where the pathetic (Belgian) UN troops are billetted, in the hope of surviving the bloodthirsty Hutu mobs engaged in the wholesale massacre of the Tutsi minority? Like Hotel Rwanda this is a fully engaging and emotionally disturbing account of the horrors that humans ca
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THE ASSASSINATION OF RICHARD NIXON (2004)
Certification15 Our Rating
It's the early 70s and America is in the throes of cultural and political turmoil, the Vietnam War still rages and ‘Tricky Dicky' still clings to power at the White House. In the middle of this confusion sits Samuel J. Bicke, a failed salesman, a failed husband and a failed father. Bicke is one of life's losers, a person incapable of doing himself any favours but determined in his belief that someone else must be to blame. To this end, Bicke becomes obsessed that the president is the cause of al
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THE IRON LADY (2011)
Certification12 Our Rating
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THE MADNESS OF KING GEORGE (1994)
CertificationPG Our Rating
Hawthorne is breathtaking as poor old King George, who, after 30 years reign, has gone completely barking mad. While his evil son plots to steal the throne, the men in the white coats subject the captive King to a stomach-churning array of torturous treatment. Bawdy, shockingly funny and just brilliant!
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VINCERE (2009)
Certification15 Our Rating
Back in 1914 the young Ida Dalsar fell in love with an ardent young socialist, the future Fascist leader Benito Mussolini. She sold her shop to finance his career, possibly married him, had his child, got dumped, but kept coming back for more before being incarcerated in a mental institution. In other words this is the story of a girl who fell for the wrong man (and a country that fell for the wrong politics).
Particularly well received in France this was considered a serious contender fo
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