Jess is a Sikh teenager with a passion for football, something that her traditionalist parents, who want her to grow up as a nice Asian girl with an arranged marriage and cooking Aloo Gobi, are horrified by. After making friends with white girl Jules she is introduced to the local womens' team, for whom she must play without her parents' knowiledge, and where she develops a forbidden love interest with the coach. Poor girl, her parents find out everything she does, and imagine worse. A witty find out more...

When a burned-out, brilliant professor - one who believes in lessons from life rather than textbooks - takes a job at a small college, everyone there is abuzz. He becomes involved with a teacher as well as a precocious student, but it takes a dramatic, existential act to turn his life around and make him see the world through a much rosier and more positive perspective.

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In the early seventies Venice beach California was a hairy place to go surfing, ruled by the Z-Boys, a group of hedonistic wave riders who weren't prepared to share the beach with anyone. The film follows the Z-boys pioneering transition from surfing to skateboarding, and what a cheesy sorry mess they make of things. The original documentary of a similar name is a considerably more gripping and inspiring way to pass the time, though it lacks the glossy, cliché ridden teen drama aspect of this. find out more...

Jake Tyler finds himself facing off with the local martial arts champion and all round bad guy in a fight that leaves him battered and humiliated. Determined to reverse his fortunes, Jake finds help with a retired MMA fighter and together the two train towards their ultimate goal… payback. Touted as the new generation of ‘Fight Club' this is really no more than a hard core ‘Karate Kid'; great fight choreography mind. find out more...

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Young teens hang around the mall, slightly older they move on to the inner-city skateboard park. While near there one night 16-year-old Alex is accidentally involved in the fatal death of a railway security guard, an incident that the police rate him as a possible suspect for. Anyway he worries, has to cope with his fears and the consequences of his manslaughter, gets laid by his girlfriend, ignores his parents and teachers - it's early teens growing up time. find out more...

Haley Graham is a former Junior Olympic gymnast, whom, after one too many run-ins with the law, is forced to enrol at an elite gymnastics academy, the VGA in Houston, run by the legendary Olympic gymnast Burt Vickerman. Despised by her fellow students the troubled teenager finds help and guidance from Vickerman, who is determined to give the young woman back her self belief. 'Stick It' is an unremarkable but enjoyable ‘against the odds' sporting drama. find out more...

This hit series stars Gabriel Macht as one of Manhattan's top corporate lawyers who sets out to recruit a new hotshot associate but winds up hiring the only guy that impresses him--a brilliant but unmotivated college dropout (Patrick J. Adams). Though he isn't actually a lawyer, this legal prodigy has the book smarts of a Harvard law grad and the street smarts of a hustler. However, in order to serve justice and save their jobs, both these unconventional thinkers mus find out more...

Tobi and Achim have been best friends for years, as cox and oarsman they have helped their rowing team win several trophies in the past and are now looking forward to a big regatta in the countryside. As Achim's relationship with his girlfriend grows more serious, Tobi starts to realize that his feelings for Achim run deeper than he's willing to admit, he feels confused, unsure of himself and increasingly isolated. At the regatta the presence of an opposing squad made up of gay teens helps Tobi find out more...

A fatherless teenager arrives in California to find himself bullied by a local karate expert. Helped by a wise old Okinawan man, Miyagi, Daniel-san's training includes not just the technique to face his enemies in competition but many, far more valuable, moral lessons. A charming movie with many wry and wise quips and a huge nod to zen. 'Paintdafence', 'Wax-on-wax-off' and the less well known 'Sand-da-fwoor'. Ace. find out more...