AS GOOD AS IT GETS (1997)

Certification15 Our Rating

Nicholson deservedly bagged the Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of novelist Melvin Udall, a guy who manages to embody pretty much every loathesome charactistic known to man. Melvin seems to hate everybody, but most of all he hates himself. Plagued by manic depression and compulsive behaviour disorders, Melvin rarely leaves his apartment except to visit his favourite eaterie, where he insults all who cross his path. Only his long-suffering favourite waitress seems to be the only person in the find out more...

ASYLUM (2005)

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Stella Raphael is in a suffocating, soulless marriage to the new deputy of a psychiatric hospital and ripe for the dark charms of inmate Edgar Stark. A passionate affair begins between the two, but the stronger their relationship becomes the further Stella's life begins to unravel. Adapted from Patrick Mcgrath's novel and from the same director of the excellent ‘Young Adam', Asylum is a comparatively un-engaging affair considering the impassioned anguish and tragedy that befalls all those involv find out more...

ATOMISED (2006)

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Half-brothers Michael and Bruno couldn't be more different, one is a reclusive socially inadequate molecular biologist, who buries himself in his work, the other is a slave to his own sexual desires. When the two men find love for the first time however there is finally a common bond between them and the concepts of evolution and fate collide. Based on Michel Houellebecqo's controversial novel, Oskar Roehler's film is a witty, intriguing, insightful and cerebrally observational insight into the find out more...

BIRTH (2004)

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Anna's husband died a number of years ago when the two were still only recently wed, a tragedy that has taken the fragile widow a considerable amount of time to come to terms with. Just as it would seem Anna's life is finally moving on a young boy enters her world and solemnly informs her that he is the reincarnation of her dead love. Birth is directed by Jonathan Glazer, the genius behind 'Sexy Beast' and while it lacks that film's brutal intensity it has a familiar unnerving quality. find out more...

BLACK SNAKE MOAN (2007)

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Christina Ricci turns all sexy and slutty and this little temptress is the devil for embittered bluesman, yep he woke up this morning, Lazarus, who needs to pray ter god as he chains her near naked body to the radiator in order to save her soul. This is a strange mix of steam, religion and human values as individuals work together to help heal each other's damaged psyches. An up-lifting tribute to human values, with a great blues soundtrack, in this 'Southern Gothic' adaptation of George Eliot's find out more...

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER SEASON 6 DISC 5 (2007)

Certification15 Our Rating

6.16 - 'Hell's Bells'; it's Xander and Anya's wedding day and emotions are running high with Xander's dysfunctional family clashing with Anya's demon friends. The ceremony is disrupted when an old man claiming to be the future Xander shows up. find out more...

CANDY (2006)

Certification18 Our Rating

Bohemian junkie poet Dan falls in love with gorgeous, but emotionally scewed up, art student Candy, whom he turns on to heroin. Junkies together their relationship alternates between states of oblivion, self-destruction and despair. With sympathetic performances from all concerned 'Candy' is an interesting observation of drug addiction and the blurring of emotional perception that it can bring. Don't be turned off, the tone of the movie is not as bleak as the storyline suggests. find out more...