Nong Toom has become one of the very best at his particular discipline, the ancient martial art of Muay Thai, but unlike many of his fellow combatants, Nong is in search of more than just fame and fortune. In the perfection of his art Nong hopes to find the financial means by which he can redefine his very sexuality. Based on a true story, Beautiful Boxer is a bone crunching display of its art, though, perhaps, some of the emotional subtleties have been lost in between the stunningly choreograph
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BEN HUR (1959)
CertificationPG Our Rating
One of the most spectacular epics of all time, even by the standards of Hollywood, the famous twenty minute chariot race alone took three months to shoot, and, along the way, Ben is given a helping hand and converted by Jesus. An unmissable slice of movie history. Won Best Picture at 1959 Academy Awards.
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FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS: SEASON 1 (DISC 5) (2006)
Certification15 Our Rating
The trials and tribulations of small town Texas football players, their friends, family, and coaching staff. DISC 5: I THINK WE SHOULD HAVE SEX, EXTENDED FAMILIES, CH-CH-CH-CH-CHANGES.
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LINHA DE PASSE (2008)
Certification15 Our Rating
This 2008 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or nominee takes us away from the increasingly clichéd violent side of life in a Brazilian favela and views the life of four half-brothers being raised by a single mum. One aspires to football stardom, one to being saved by Christianity, one works as a courier, but is drifting toward crime, and the youngest yearns to drive a bus. The mum, pregnant with her fifth child, works as a cleaner for a woman in a middle class area of Sao Paolo. An energetic mixture
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NACHO LIBRE (2006)
Certification12 Our Rating
Ignacio is a humble Mexican monk, but he has dreams and they ain't so humble. As night falls Ignacio, along with his sidekick Esqueleto, transforms into the mighty wrestler Nacho Libre, unfortunately both men spend their evenings being ritually humiliated and beaten black and blue… but Nacho is not a man to let such disappointments so easily distract him from his ‘gift'. A frankly surreal Jack Black vehicle, ‘Nacho Libre' is nonetheless a ridiculously enjoyable farce.
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OFFSIDE (2006)
CertificationPG Our Rating
Under Islamic law it's illegal for Iranian females to attend football/soccer matchs, but in this film a number attempt to smuggle themselves into a crucial World Cup qualifier against Bahrain. We follow the fortunes of a group who are caught, placed in a compound inside the stadium and guarded by a group of somewhat unsophisticated male army conscripts. The guards are totally terrified by the red tape of the situation they are in, for example, and most hilariously, when one of the girls needs to
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THE LEGEND OF BAGGER VANCE (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
Set in the aftermath of WW1 we follow the degeneration of Rannulph Junuh, a veteran of the trenches who, before he went to war, was a golfer of enormous promise. Now haunted by the horrors he has seen, Rannulph keeps the nightmares at bay by burying himself in the bottle. Given one more opportunity to redeem himself in the form of a local celebrity golf match, Rannulph must find his long lost swing and in the process perhaps regain the love of the woman he left behind, and so appears the mysteri
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