October 1993, Mogadishu, Somalia and a force of elite American troops, under the banner of the UN, are sent into the city to abduct a warlord's henchmen. But the carefully laid plan quickly goes belly up and the soldiers are left fighting for their lives with little support and vastly out numbered. Black Hawk Down is a relentless slab of action and though based on true events, no attempt is made to explain the why or the wherefore beyond "badman" versus "goodman" and heroic stereotypes abound. A find out more...

Fascinating futuristic yarn set in a world that's finally cracked genetic engineering. Only the perfect are rewarded with social acceptance, with the un-improved branded as in-valids. But aspiring astronaut Ethan Hawke is not about to be held back by his "imperfections", so, borrowing the genes of the enhanced but wheelchair-bound Jude Law, he cons his way into a job at the gigantic Gattaca corporation. His ensuing affair with the immaculate Uma Thurman, however, triggers a desperate race to avo find out more...

Released from prison after a lengthy sentence, gangland boss Frank White wants his territory back, which means the whole of New York, and Frank is a man who usually gets what he wants. Christopher Walken is excellent as the man with a mission in this violent, gripping and powerful gangster movie. find out more...

Captain "Lucky" Jack Aubrey is a naval commander whose ship comes under heavy fire from a vastly superior enemy vessel while on patrol off the Brazilian coast during the Napoleonic wars. Only the luck of the gods and Jack's renowned cunning save him and the crew from certain doom, enabling their ship to slip away from battle before all is lost in the icy depths of the ocean. With his pride and his ship in a poor way Jack vows to turn the tables on his foe and so begins a tense game of cat and mo find out more...

On Jupiter's third moon the hard working miners have been becoming psychotic, and as Connery investigates the causes of these unprovoked attacks he himself becomes the prey of hired killers. An excellent western-style Sci-Fi with all the style which you`d expect from Connery. find out more...

The small township of Antonio Bay is preparing to celebrate it's centenary when a sinister fog rolls in, bringing with it the vengeful spirits of a leper colony murdered by the town's founding fathers. Atmospheric, creepy and with the dulcet tones of Adrienne Barbeau... mmmmm. find out more...

A self-narrated and consequently potted history of the producer Robert Evans, a man who rose from nowhere and made possible some of the greatest movies of the 1970s. Not least of which being ‘The Godfather'. A prodigious mover and shaker, Evans' rarefied world went belly up when the scandals started to come thicker and faster than the successes. The kid stays in the picture is a fascinating insight into the world of the Hollywood power broker. find out more...

A hardened veteran of the American civil war, Captain Nathan Algren is a man who's lost his way. A hero to many, he is haunted by some of the things he has done and when offered the chance to teach the art of modern warfare to a Japan in the grip of modernisation, he sees an opportunity to escape his past. Plunged into a war against the Samurai, Nathan is captured but allowed to live so that the warriors may learn the ways of their new enemy. From here on in it's mutual admiration all round; Nat find out more...

The Amish are a puritanical sect whose life in Pennsylvania has remained unchanged since the 18th Century, but when an Amish boy witnesses a murder, cynical big city cop John Book (Ford) investigates the case and, finding his own life endangered, is forced to hot-foot it to their ranch with the bad guys in pursuit. Ford falls in love with the boy's mother (McGillis), and observes the distance between the messy world he leaves behind and the cloistered one in which he takes refuge. Powerful, assu find out more...

Grady Tripp is an award winning novelist, the only problem is that this was seven years ago and he seems unable to relinquish the second book to his increasingly agitated publishers. To compound matters Grady's personal life is crumbling around him and the characters that frequent his world don't appear to be helping matters. All comes to a head one frantic, farcical and nerve shredding weekend, a series of mishaps that may consign him to the scrap heap forever or perhaps provide him with the op find out more...