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Certification12 Our Rating

 

Sally Potter's latest film is an evocative and beautifully shot portrait of post-war Britain, as seen through the eyes of Elle Fanning's impressionable young teenager. She plays Ginger, who finds herself increasingly estranged from her mother and drawn further into the world of her pacifist and anti-nuclear activist father. However, her friendsh find out more...


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Based on a true story we follow the fortunes of Susanna who has been dubiously diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, trapped in a state of self-loathing she rebels against the authorities within her psychiatric hospital and finds solace with her fellow inmates, in particular the hypnotically charismatic Lisa, a grade 'A' sociopath. Girl Interrupted is a cracking drama, with all the ingredients of a fine story; humour, pathos and passion, sensitively directed and with an absolutely com find out more...

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When Bobby Garfield returns to his home after nearly thirty years he is overwhelmed with the memories of one childhood summer in 1960 when a stranger appeared in town and changed his life forever. Bobby is eleven when Ted Brautigen arrives, and the two quickly forge a close relationship. It turns out Ted is on the run from a shadowy government agency because of his acute psychic powers and though knows he will be found, he is determined to enjoy his moment of freedom. Hearts In Atlantis is a tho find out more...

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Based on the award-winning play by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, this poignant and colourful drama tells the inspirational story of a courageous woman, Nanny, whose spirit and strength served as the foundation for a struggling community trying to survive during the segregation era. find out more...

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Set in small town Italian life during the 60s and 70s; Accio is the cause of much of his parents' misery, irritable, impulsive and explosive, he treats everyday life like he's in the midst of a battlefield. His brother Manrico on the other hand is handsome, charismatic and loved by all, though he too has a dark side. find out more...

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Tokyo, the late 1960s and a time when, world wide, students are pricking the cynical establishments conscience. Toru Watanabe’s personal life is similarly tumultuous; at heart he is deeply devoted to his first love, Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman but their complex bond has been forged by the tragic death of their best friend years before. Watanabe is crippled by this influence until Midori, a girl who is everything that Naoko is not, outgoing, vivacious and supremely self-confi find out more...

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The definitive gangster-epic; violent? Yes, but never mindless. The Jewish Mafia's coming of age on the Lower East Side in 1923, their rise to wealth during Prohibition, and their fall in 1933, provide the background to a story of friendship and betrayal, love and death. Leone's masterful cinematography evokes both the harshness of the vice-ridden decades before and after Prohibition, but also the philosophy behind it. Splendid performances by De Niro and Woods and a stupendous score by Ennio Mo find out more...

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It is the summer of '66, and England is about to be consumed by World Cup fever. For 12-year-old Bernie though, the biggest day of his life is looming, his Bar Mitzvah, the day he becomes a man. However, Bernie's family are increasingly distracted by the threat of losing their business and their wayward older son, and the scale of Bernie's Bar Mitzvah diminishes daily. Worst of all the Cup Final is scheduled to take place on the same day and when England make it through the qualifying rounds, Be find out more...

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1969; not very successful interior designer Eliot returns from Greenwich Village to help out his struggling parents with their failing motel in upstate New York. Hearing about the cancellation of a nearby hippie festival he thinks he can drum up some business by offering them a location... and the rest is history!
There is not much music in this comic glowing tribute to the flower power era, more a starry-eyed mosaic of characters drifting in and out of focus.
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Jack lives on an almost deserted island with his 16 year old daughter Rose and in this lonely but beautiful environment they have become intensely close. The arrival of Jack's girlfriend and her two sons however sends Rosie into an emotional tail spin, ill equipped as she is to deal with the new company and more importantly the threat to her exclusive relationship with her father. The Ballad Of Jack And Rose is an intense, haunting and original coming of age drama, with two hypnotic and driven c find out more...