This lavishly photographed and costumed action-drama-epic sticks to what we know of Genghis's early years, although that's not much, telling the story of how a young tribal boy overcame many obstacles, including slavery, to become a legendary conqueror. The widescreen suits this 'big sky' country and there is something remarkably authentic about the yurts and the costumes. Chosen for marriage, at the age of nine, by a female child, Borte, while he thinks he's doing the chosing, she becomes one o find out more...

Set in the Sino-Japanese war, Yasuzo Masumura's black-and-white anti-war film tells of an army nurse who sexually services an amputee and falls in love with a drug-addicted surgeon. This can't be recommended to the squeamish, but neither can its nuanced eroticism nor its passionate, unpredictable moral focus, be easily shaken off. Comparable with Altman's MASH, it suggests a less comic treatment of the same theme, how to preserve one's humanity in impossible circumstances, but its ethics are con find out more...

This gripping multi-award-winning thriller tells the tale of a nice young Mexican lad on the run from a scary tattooed gang with whom he's become too involved. Catching a ride on a train north, as he attempts to flee to a decent life in the good old US of A, he bumps into sexy Honduran teenager Sayra, who is also heading for the streets of gold, and a romantic thriller results. find out more...

When guileless Irish drifter Brendan arrives in Newcastle he befriends a shady nightclub owner, Finney, who is locked in a power struggle over the fate of his bar with a villainous developer, Cosmo. However Brendon falls in love with neglected waitress Kate, who just happens to be Cosmo's mistress! Stormy Monday is a dark tale of frustration and obsession in a world where morality holds little sway. find out more...

In an unnamed European town, in an unspecified era, live Cynthia and Evelyn. Every day Evelyn cycles to Cynthia’s chateau to work as a lowly maid and every day the cruel, vindictive Cynthia inflicts countless sad find out more...

As he plans his next job a long-time thief tries to balance his feelings for a middle-class woman, who is connected to one of his earlier heists, against the perils he faces as the FBI look to bring him and his crew down. Ben Affleck’s second feature (his first being ‘Gone Baby Gone’) is a blue-collar crime caper drama with a soupcon of romance and its conscientious use of location, the Charlestown district of Boston, lifts it above your standard genre flick. At times the acting feels a little s find out more...

A Chinese epic based around the rise and fall of General Pang who, on behalf of the ruling Qing dynasty, retook the cities of Suzhou and Nanjing during the unsuccessful Taiping Rebellion during the 1860s. The film starts with a beaten Pang meeting and allying with two bandits, Er-Hu and Wu-Yang, and forming the Shan Army. As they slash their way to victory they become the victims of their own disputes and rivalries and, with victory achieved, no longer the masters, but the wretched pawns in a bi find out more...

HBO's most watched series since 'The Sopranos' is set in deepest Louisiana, where cute waitress Sookie's ability to read people's minds puts her off any potential men... that is until vampire William arrives on the scene.
Many vampires, though much maligned by rednecks, Christians - God Hates Fangs - and other non-liberals have 'come out of the coffin' and entered mainstream society. A number of civil rights organisations champion 'vampire rights' and a huge parallel exists between vampi find out more...

Episode 3; Mine; Sookie pays a nocturnal visit on William and another girl gets murdered - all a bit much for a small town. Tara stays over at Sam's.
Episode 4; Escape From Dragon House; Jason is again the number one suspect, but he's overdosing on vampire blood, and Bill and Sookie pay a visit to Fangtasia. find out more...

Episode 5; Sparks Fly Out; Bill gives his speech on the Civil War and we learn about how he became a vampire. Sam takes Sookie out on a date and Jason scores some more V off Lafayette.
Episode 6; Cold Ground; Granny's funeral, Tara and Sam bonk again, Jason and Randi Sue bonk and Sookie finally makes it with Bill.
Episode 7; Burning House Of Love; Jason goes to Fangtasia looking to score some V and hooks up with Amy, the three rogue vampires arrive at Merlotte's and three local re find out more...