(Showing at the Cube Cinema, Thursday June 26th 2014): The definitive nostalgia movie. A multitude of budding stars made their debuts in this fond look at the innocence of teenage life in '62. Difficult decisions, sex, booze, amazing cars and a brilliant soundtrack make this a film which is touching, perceptive, very funny and hugely entertaining.

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'Baby Bogart' or 'Bugsy Malone The Sequel'? Young teens act out the roles of our classic noir favourites, Sam Spade et al, against a backdrop of a daylight open-spaced LA suburbia. The characters are there, the script is there, the critics loved it and you, the viewers, rave about it. Sorry, but I just can't buy young high school kids acting out these roles.....ergo the answer is 'Bugsy Malone The Sequel'...but please make your own mind up. find out more...

At the peak of her international career, Maria Enders is asked to perform in a revival of the play that made her famous twenty years ago. But back then she played the role of Sigrid, an alluring young girl who disarms and eventually drives her boss Helena to suicide. Now she is being asked to step into the other role, that of the older Helena. She departs with her assistant to rehearse in Sils Maria; a remote region of the Alps. A young Hollywood starlet with a penchant for scandal is to take find out more...

George is a bully, but when he beats up 12 year old Sam he makes a fatal error of judgement. Sam's older brother decides to invite George on a boat trip down the river, the hidden agenda being to humiliate George the way he has humiliated so many others. What none of the perpetrators had expected however is that George is just a lost lonely kid, whose fear of rejection and not belonging has manifested itself through aggression and abuse. Having decided that George ain't so bad, the gang call off find out more...

Nick, a high-school senior, is still infatuated with his fickle ex (he thinks it's love, but believe me it ain't) when, at a gig he and his band played, he meets Norah. Over the course of the next eight or nine hours boy and girl embark on an increasingly bizarre and ineffectual urban road trip that cements their common bonds and increasing mutual affection, but hey it's easy to screw up at any age so what are the chances these two teens are going to make smooth progress? Witty, gentle, warm find out more...

April has not long escaped the joyless suburban nest of her family, and to prove her independence she invites the clan to her New York flat for Thanksgiving. What could be an opportunity to ease a scratchy relationship with her dying mother begins to look increasingly doomed when April is forced to acknowledge she can't actually cook and the oven doesn't work anyway. As the arrival of April's jaded family looms, in desperation she calls on her hitherto unknown neighbours for help. Pieces of Apri find out more...

A visually brilliant film about teenage gangs in America's urban wasteland. The leader of a small dying gang, Rusty James, lives in the shadow of the memory of his absent, older brother - The Motorcycle Boy. His mother has left, his father drinks, school has no meaning for him and his relationships are shallow. One of Coppola's two adaptations of S E Hinton novels, 'The Outsiders' being the other. A great performance from Dillon and an awesome soundtrack. find out more...

It's the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Life is stirred up, however, when the beautiful Ann Shankland arrives to see her alcoholic ex-husband, John Malcolm, who is secretly engaged to Pat Cooper, the woman who runs the hotel. Meanwhile, snobbish Mrs Railton-Bell discovers that the kindly if rather doddering Major Pollock, played by David Niven, who won an Oscar for his performance, a retired officer who likes to find out more...

Five very different kids arrive at high school one Saturday morning to do a nine hour detention during which time they must write an essay titled "Who do I think I am?". At first, they argue and hate each other, but after smoking some marijuana, they pour their hearts out to each other, and tell about their fears, secrets, and their deepest emotions, and problems. An iconic 80s movie and the first of a trilogy preceding 'Sixteen Candles' and 'Pretty In Pink'. find out more...

"Josephine Decker has created a new style of thriller that employs allegory, incorporates touches of David Lynch as well as Magritte -esque imagery. Decker's setting of a remote farm feels like a metaphor for what turns out to be hell. The raw and emotional (and yes, sometimes funny) dialog tells a story that can seem familiar at points but really is meant to keep you guessing and off balance. I really enjoyed how the undertones of this film came to life through her very deft contrast of the find out more...