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Certification12 Our Rating

John Nash is a brilliant, though socially awkward, mathematician and with his latest work he has achieved the acclaim that he so needed, but John is also prone to delusional behaviour, and when a mysterious stranger asks him for his help to thwart a conspiracy against the Stars and Stripes, John becomes increasingly obsessive, a state of mind that begins to push away all those he holds dear, even his loving wife. Very loosely adapted from a true story "Beautiful Mind" is the bog standard slickly find out more...

Certification15 Our Rating

Based on Crowe's own adventures as a teenage music journalist, Almost Famous tells the story of a 15-year-old boy who is complacently hired by Rolling Stone magazine to write an article on the fictional band Stillwater. As the band hits the road so does Rolling Stone's youngest reporter. find out more...

Certification15 Our Rating

Ennis and Jack are two young men working as herders on a vast sheep ranch in the heart of Wyoming. It is the 1960s but the sexual revolution is in no rush to reach this wilderness and when their relationship spills over into consummated love the two boys are ill equipped to handle what they feel. Over the next twenty years Ennis and Jack settle into conventional lives, dictated by their strict social environment, both get married and both have children but neither can escape the true love they s find out more...

Certification18 Our Rating

Valerie Solanas was a nutter cum radical feminist who tried to hang around with the Warhol crowd, became the sole member of SCUM, the Society for Cutting Up Men, and became famous for more than 15 minutes for firing the bullets from which Andy Warhol never recovered. Right on sister, that's art. This is a fab little pic from the Killer Films troupe. Laced with psychedelia, trimmed with gritty realism, first person narratives and cameos, this is a must watch if only for Taylor's brilliant protray find out more...

Certification15 Our Rating

Set in the 50s, 70s and 90s, this is an often moving tale of three different women living in the same house dealing with the same thing...an unplanned pregnancy. Demi Moore plays a woman struggling with the death of her husband and in pain turns to his brother with uncomfortable and ultimately tragic consequences. Sissy Spacek plays a working class mom whose house is already over-crowded. When she finds out she's pregnant it's her feminist (read: liberated) daughter who's pushing her towards ter find out more...

Certification18 Our Rating

A fascinating biopic of Francis Bacon, concentrating on his relationship with George Dyer, a burglar whom he caught in his house and promptly seduced, whose amorality and innocence he found attractive and whom he introduced to his Soho pals. Dyer's bouts with depression, his drinking, pill popping and nightmares strain the relationship in this clash between the arty, boozy Soho set and the East End criminal fraternity, as does his pain with Bacon's casual infidelities. Bacon paints and talks wit find out more...

CertificationPG Our Rating

A coming-of-age chick flick told in retrospect as four childhood friends are reunited after twenty years and wonder what they ever had in common. But flashing back to the summer of 1970, when they were twelve, nostalgia flows as the events which changed them from girls to women unfold. find out more...

Certification15 Our Rating

An aspiring young politician, Fielding Pierce, falls in love with an idealistic and impassioned young woman, nine years later and long after tragedy has parted them Fielding is suddenly overwhelmed by the memories and emotions of his lost love. As Fielding's grasp on his political ambitions slip so Sarah seems to take on a more real and tangible form. Waking The Dead is a powerful and heartfelt romantic drama. find out more...