Three years after entering prison for robbery as a 19-year-old heroin addict, Sherry Swanson begins her first day of freedom clean and sober. A model prisoner, who has undergone personal transformation, she immediately sets out to regain custody of her young daughter Alexis, but life on the outside proves far tougher than Sherry had anticipated and it is only when all seems to be slipping away from her that she realises one small step at a time is better than no step at all. "SherryBaby" is a to find out more...

A cracking Coen brothers caper with an absolutely magnificent Jeff Bridges as ageing hippy, Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski, happily bumbling through life, which in his case means getting stoned and hanging out at the bowling alley, until his peaceful existence is rudely interrupted by a couple of bungling crooks who visit his apartment late one night and pee on his rug. Realising he's been mistaken for his crippled, millionaire namesake, Jeff visits the real intended victim seeking compensation for th 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...

Looking like Asbury Park-era Springsteen, Pacino's first starring role sees him playing a happy-go-lucky junkie living it up in New York City. When he meets clean Helen he wants to straighten out but can't and she becomes dragged into his world...deeper than he ever was. Without the stigma of mob boss or Satan-incarnate, watching Pacino in these early days is quite a treat. Light and moving, in a similar vein to Drugstore Cowboy, Panic is gritty and real and worth a watch. find out more...

Tracy's suffering from an intense bout of self-conscious peer-pressure and there is seemingly no lengths she won't go to in order to ingratiate herself with the coolest kids in class. Soon enough Tracy is best buddies with Evie and so begins a spiral into petty crime and drugs, an uncontrollable descent that leaves Tracy's mother horrified and impotent. 'Thirteen' is a powerful and unflinching story that explains the allure as much as it shows the destruction, and is based on the teenage exper find out more...

Written by the always controversial Quentin Tarantino, this is romance with a big difference. Teenage hooker Alabama marries shy guy Clarence and pretty soon the happy couple are on the run from just about everyone. Fast, brutal in places, with a heavy dose of dark humour. Not to be missed. find out more...