A wonderful tale revolving round the atheistic female mathematician, philosopher and all-round genius Hypatia, the lover she spurned and the slave who adored her; Roman authority is collapsing, the end is nigh and the Talibanesque Christians are preparing to both sack and burn the great library at Alexandria, destroying the collective scientific work of centuries, setting back science and maths a millennium, and massacre thousands (including, of course, the Jews). This is an ambitious and swe find out more...
Peter Yates' Oscar-winner is a heart-warming coming-of-age story that has also taken its place as the greatest sports movie about cycling ever made. Four friends graduate from high-school and find themselves looking at an uncertain future in small-town America. Dave's passion is cycling and his dream is to be a world-class champion like the Italians he idolises. His passion for cycling takes on new meaning when he and his friends face a team from the local college in the town's annual bike ra find out more...
Max is a cabbie, it's not a career, he's just waiting for the big break, but then he's been waiting for 12 years now. When Vincent climbs in to the back of his cab Max finds himself forced to confront his dreamer's apathy, because Vincent is no ordinary punter, he's a contract killer and he's got five lethal stops to make before the sun rises. Collateral is a tense, beautifully rendered action thriller from Michael Mann, and while it may lack the depth of characterisation of his seminal "Heat find out more...
Will Smith wipes that grin off his face and plays it straight in this paranoid action/thriller. If you watch this waiting for Will to break into song you'll be disappointed, but it's got all the impressive stunts and big explosions you'd expect from a Jerry Bruckheimer production. Will plays a lawyer who has a brief encounter with an old college pal in a lingerie shop. So when the lawyer finds himself bugged, unemployed, and hunted by men in black he's determined to find out why. Taking more find out more...