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Harvey Pekar lives the life most of us dream of avoiding, a filing clerk by day, a man at odds with, and lost in, the world he inhabits the other sixteen hours. Harvey begins to write down his disgruntled observations and with the help of equally cantankerous illustrator, Harry Crumb, ‘American Splendor' is born. This movie of the man's life is an inspired mixture of animation, documentary and dramatisation, with Paul Giamatti finally getting a role worth his talent. Funny, sad, sharp and hip to find out more...

Cockney safe-cracker Dom Hemingway is released from prison after serving a 12-year sentence for refusing to snitch. Eager to collect his reward from suave, psychotic mob boss Mr Fontaine, Dom heads to southern France with his only friend and accomplice Dickie. Dom is a drug fuelled, sex obsessed, self-regarding, over compensating sociopath…all good, but find out more...

Nick Porter sells salesmanship for a living, but the days of being on top of his game are long gone, thanks in no part to his ever losing battle with alcohol. Finally fired and discovering his wife has also decided it’s all over on the same day, Nick finds himself on his front lawn with all that is left of is worldly belongings. An adaptation of a Raymond Carver short story, don’t expect an archetypal Will Ferrell movie, this a bitter sweet drama...with some humour. A low key, thoughtful and tou find out more...

When Waring Hudsucker, head of hugely successful Hudsucker Industries, commits suicide his board of directors, led by Sidney Mussberger, come up with a brilliant plan to make a lot of money: appoint a moron to run the company and, when the stock falls low enough, buy it up, take over the company and restore its fortunes. They choose idealistic Norville Barnes, who just started in the mail room, and Norville is whacky enough to drive any company to ruin, but he comes up with a brilliant idea... ' find out more...

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Two New York based siblings, would-be playwright Wendy and book writing theatre professor Jon, must put their self-absorption aside and band together to care for their cantankerous old dad. A painfully funny, sharp, witty script and, in turns, a heartbreaking story dealing with ageing, compromise and death in modern American family dynamics, with two predictably fine performances from Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman. 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...