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CertificationPG Our Rating

William Thatcher is a poor peasant squire, but he finds he has an aptitude for the world of jousting and having successfully passed himself off as a knight he sets about taking the world of the medieval privileged by storm. A Knight's Tale is a completely irreverent take on the swashbuckler movies of old and history in general, but it's a highly entertaining adventure comedy, with a good heart and an endearingly executed lack of originality, while a down on his luck Chaucer is constantly in dang find out more...

CertificationU Our Rating

A classy screen adaptation of Noel Coward's play about the problems caused to Rex Harrison's second marriage by the spirit of his dead wife who appears at a seance and proceeds to bug his new wife. Decent, dated special effects and the screenplay a fine example of Coward's finest wit. find out more...

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Brilliant, moving, funny and beautiful, a truly wonderful film. Bates is superb as the frustrated Alabama housewife, liberated by Tandy's tales of her childhood memories of the irrepressible Idgie and the demure Ruth. Their adventures will enchant and delight you. WATCH THIS FILM. Best of the year!! find out more...
JUDE (1996)

Certification15 Our Rating

Based on Hardy's "Jude the Obscure", with an ace performance by Eccleston (Shallow Grave) as the young stonemason whose scholarly ambitions are scuppered by an unhappy marriage to the local floozy. When he begins an illicit love affair with his beautiful cousin, tragedy is all too inevitable. Bleak but superb. find out more...

Certification15 Our Rating

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...

Certification15 Our Rating

Leone's superb all-encompassing epic portraying the death of the mythical 'Wild West'. A superb cast, the collaborations of Bertolucci and Argento, and Morricone's brilliantly atmospheric score all add to the incredible style and weight of Leone's creation. A true cinematic masterpiece! A candidate for greatest movie ever made, if you haven't... then you must. find out more...
PAPILLON (1973)

Certification18 Our Rating

The tale of two men banged up for years in the notorious French penal colony Devil's Island. Two escape bids by one of them results in years of solitary confinement but make him simply more determined to flee, even as old age approachs. The ultimate prison escape movie loosely based on a true story. find out more...

Certification15 Our Rating

Michael Sullivan is a gangster in 1930's America and the fiercely loyal right hand man of the local kingpin. Due to the foolish and jealously motivated action of his bosses son, Michael suddenly finds himself on the run from his old employer with his own 12 year old son in tow and consumed by a burning desire for revenge. Road to Perdition is a powerful gangster drama; dark, tense immaculately performed and an intriguing follow up to Sam Mendes 'American Beauty'. find out more...

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Seabiscuit is a race horse with little promise, fortunately for Seabiscuit however he's also the horse that a disparate group of men have decided to pin all there hopes to and so begins an unlikely journey to achieve the seemingly impossible, to create a winner from a no hoper. Seabiscuit is a classic tale of triumph over adversity and particularly against the odds; beautifully atmospheric and performed by a class cast this is at heart old fashioned dramatic cinema in the finest sense of the tr find out more...

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The world as we know it (well the world as Biggles knew it perhaps) is under threat from an unstoppable robot army. There's only one man who can save us, Sky Captain, or Joe to those who know him. Together with feisty (read pesky) reporter Polly Perkins and super cool, super hard arse, Captain Franky Cook, Joe must find the source of this new menace and destroy it before it destroys the world. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is a visual joy, a bit like Fritz Lang's Metropolis if he'd had a find out more...