Ennis and Jack are two young men working as herders on a vast sheep ranch in the heart of Wyoming. It is the 1960s but the sexual revolution is in no rush to reach this wilderness and when their relationship spills over into consummated love the two boys are ill equipped to handle what they feel. Over the next twenty years Ennis and Jack settle into conventional lives, dictated by their strict social environment, both get married and both have children but neither can escape the true love they s
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THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS (1966)
Certification15 Our Rating
A highly acclaimed and influential account of Algeria's turbulent past made in psuedo-documentary style. The tense plot surrounds the rise of nationalist organisations in '54 and the French government's attempts to quell them. This film was the prototype for most political thrillers of the 1970s.
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THE MAGDALENE SISTERS (2001)
Certification18 Our Rating
The Magdalene Laundries are a peculiarly twisted Irish Catholic institution; run by nuns they provide a form of incarceration for fallen young women, whose heinous crimes range from being raped to flirting with boys. Margaret, Bernadette and Rose are three new inmates about to experience first hand woman's inhumanity to woman as they are humiliated, degraded, abused and worked to the bone, but despite the grimness of their world the three girls find solace and even humour in the company of each
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