Jules Verne's classic underwater adventure is brought vividly to life in this 1950's Disney adaptation, thanks in large part to some great monster effects, and James Mason's scene stealing portrayal of Captain Nemo as mad genius. Huge fun.

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A charming young Irish guitarist and a sheltered young cellist have a chance encounter one magical night above New York's Washington Square, leaving in their wake an infant, August Rush, orphaned by circumstance. Now performing on the streets of New York and cared for by a mysterious stranger, August uses his remarkable musical talent to seek the parents from whom he was separated at birth. How's the phrase go ‘one man's junk is another's gold'..... No? Well the point is "August Rush", a whimsic find out more...

Peter Yates' Oscar-winner is a heart-warming coming-of-age story that has also taken its place as the greatest sports movie about cycling ever made. Four friends graduate from high-school and find themselves looking at an uncertain future in small-town America. Dave's passion is cycling and his dream is to be a world-class champion like the Italians he idolises. His passion for cycling takes on new meaning when he and his friends face a team from the local college in the town's annual bike ra find out more...

A film adaption of the Greek myth of Perseus and his quest to battle both Medusa and the Kraken monster to save the Princess. Brilliant family entertainment studded with gem-like cameos from the likes of Olivier and Ursula Andrews who really know how to make an epic performance larger than life. Great! find out more...

When Coraline's parents move to the back of beyond and bury themselves in their work their seriously bored daughter decides to go in search of her own entertainment. Coraline stumbles upon a small portal that introduces her to an alternative world where her mum and dad care and the shabbiness of her real existence has been transformed into a wonderous place of beauty and adventure, but perfect places can sometimes hide a dark secret, as our heroine soon begins to discover. Directed and created b find out more...

Effortlessly blending the Snow White, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty fairytales, "Enchanted" begins in conventional, animated Disney territory with the beautiful and innocent Giselle being courted by Edward, her Prince Charming. His evil mother, however, is not too happy about the match and banishes Giselle from the fantastical land of Andalasia to 21st Century New York. At this point the film flips into live-action and this is where "Enchanted" really takes off, with everyone from Giselle to Pi find out more...

James M Barrie is a lonely man, in a failing marriage, and a playwright whose work has seen better days. When Barrie meets a group of children in the park he finds himself enchanted, and it is not long before he has settled deep within the bosom of their family life, a loving matriarchy held together by the children's young widowed mother. Finding Neverland is based on the play by Allan Knee, and is a tender, deeply moving interpretation of Barrie's inspiration for "Peter Pan". Beautifully perf find out more...

In 1994 in the East African state of Rwanda long simmering resentment between the 2 largest ethnic groups erupted into one of history's worst ever bloodbaths. In the midst of this emerged a hero, the manager of Rwanda's only four-star hotel, who, armed with little more than his wit and tremendous courage, succeeds in keeping the fascist killing hordes from slaughtering him, his family, and the over 1,000 refugees sheltering in his hotel. An awesome indictment of racism, mass murder and the poli find out more...

 

Movie Mole says: Hugo allows an adult audience to experience the sheer childlike joy of solving a mystery, of keeping of a great big secret and, most importantly, of seeing a film for the very first time; the movie is filled to the brim wi find out more...

It's 2009 and a time capsule buried 50 years earlier is opened up and inside are a series of numbers that seem to have predicted major disasters in the intervening period AND a coming apocalypse... so we're all for the chop. find out more...