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Certification15 Our Rating

There is much to admire about this funny and touching British comedy, not least of which, is its box office takings - £10 million prior to its video release. Set in 1971 Manchester, 'East is East' tells the story of a Pakistani chip shop owner, George Khan (Puri), who is trying to prevent his family from sliding into decadent western ways. With most of the family too assimilated to turn back, he is always fighting a loosing battle. George's determination to make his family into good Muslims is i find out more...

Certification15 Our Rating

Episode 3 is one of the weaker sketchs with a rather silly plot about a scab in a textiles factory getting killed. However Episode 4 is much stronger with corruption in the police force the core of the story. Which way will old-style police thug DCI Hunt swing, will he back up Simm or continue on the take? The series is now beginning to motor, the dialogue in this script is some of the smartest and the series is doing what it does at its best, parodying both 70s cop shows and the 70s themselves. find out more...
TOGETHER (2001)

Certification15 Our Rating

It's Sweden in 1975 and Elizabeth finally decides to leave her drunken and abusive husband, finding refuge in her brother's commune. The environment that Elizabeth finds herself in is a far cry from her previously suburban existence, and she quickly warms to it, only her children are less convinced, seeing as they do a world no less full of deceit and hypocracy than the life they have left. Together is a joyous movie, sharply observed, often very funny and with a satisfying feel good after taste find out more...

Certification15 Our Rating

The legend that is Dewey Cox, a rock and roll god whose name is uttered in the same breath as Buddy Holly and Johnny Cash, a man who embraced hedonism more than most of his peers, but at heart was simple and kind. Idolised for his music and nearly destroyed by the many temptations such adulation brought, this is the myth, a subtle, beautifully performed, lushly visualised, cleverly scripted lampoon of every poe-faced, rose-tinted Oscar hungry biopic that's graced our screens over the last couple find out more...