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Certification15 Our Rating

Having just graduated from high school and very much looking forward to a well deserved summer holiday before college, James is distraught to discover that his parents no longer have the money to fund any of this. Suddenly just as desperate as everyone else in his small town, he takes the only summer job he can get: at an amusement park. Unbeknownst to James, this job will provide him with an exciting and invaluable education about life and love, and just about anything else you can't learn at s find out more...

Certification18 Our Rating

From the man who brought you Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild Untold Story of Ozploitation, comes a whistle-stop tour through the similarly wild, untold story of how two men from Israel changed the movie-producing business - for better and for worse.

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Certification15 Our Rating

Filmed in 1986 at a Maryland concert arena parking lot before a heavy metal show, this is an unvarnished, fascinating and Spinal Tap..esque anthropological study of American metal heads in their mid-'80s glory. A shed load of extras make up for the feature's 25 minute running time (though the bit with one now middle aged participant's exhaustive explanation of his record collection comes close to a cure for insomnia). find out more...
POPCORN (1991)

Certification15 Our Rating

A 'Leatherface' type murderer who wears other people's faces, kills at an all-night horror-thon at an old theatre put on by a bunch of film students. Maggie, the lead character, believes it's really Lanyard Gates, a crazed film maker who killed his family live on stage fifteen years ago. And now he's back to kill his daughter, Sara, who is believed to really be Maggie. 

 

Superlative horror that blends great diy special effects, cinephilia and frights with aplomb. AN find out more...

SUBURBIA (1983)

Certification18 Our Rating

When household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape with the orphans of a throw-away society: The Rejected! Evan and his surrogate family of misfits stick together until a tragedy tears them apart. Directed by Penelope Spheeris of "Decline of Western Civilization."
A cult classic from the punk/new wave scene, featuring a badass DIY soundtrack. find out more...

Certification15 Our Rating

Gyorgy Palfi's grotesque tale of three generations of men, including an obese speed eater, an embalmer of gigantic cats, and a man who shoots fire out of his penis. find out more...

CertificationPG Our Rating

More choice clips from the cult and influential music show The Old Grey Whistle Test find out more...