Betty Anne Waters was a high school dropout who spent nearly two decades working as a single mother while putting herself through law school, tirelessly trying to beat the system and overturn her brother's wrongful murder conviction.
'Conviction' is a superior, if generic, true life drama. find out more...

When Josey Aimes returns to her hometown in Northern Minnesota after a failed marriage, she needs a good job. A single mother with two children to support, she turns to the predominant source of employment in the region - the iron mines but it's an industry long dominated by men and a place unaccustomed to change. Josey is prepared for the back-breaking and often dangerous work, but coping with the harassment she and the other female miners encounter from their male co-workers proves more challe find out more...

This sad story follows the prodigiously talented Mark ‘Gator' Rogowski, darling of the 1980's American skating scene, as he treads the depressingly familiar path from the precocious success story towards a self-destructive climax. Marketed to fans of films like ‘Dogtown and Z Boys', ‘Stoked' is a much darker affair. Focusing on the egocentricity of its star, his manipulation by corporate hucksters and his desperate attempts to regain his status in the skating world, the film has an unpleasant ta find out more...

Germany, 1954; teenager Michael Berg becomes ill on his way home and is helped by Hanna, a taciturn, but attractive woman twice his age. When recovered Michael returns to her apartment to thank the stranger for her kindness he swiftly finds himself involved in a furtive, impassioned affair. As this relationship intensifies Michael discovers Hanna's love of being read to. When Hanna disappears without a trace the young lad is left confused and bereft. find out more...

Bosh! All of season two of this very dry, very british and very influential comedy series. Episode 1: The Compassionate Society (23 February 1981), Episode 2: Doing the Honours (2 March 1981), Episode 3: The Death List (19 March 1981), Episode 4: The Greasy Pole (16 March 1981), Episode 5: The Devil You Know (23 March 1981), Episode 6: The Quality of Life (30 March 1981), Episode 7: A Question of Loyalty (6 April 1981). find out more...