Winner of four Oscars, this film is shot with the most beautifully scenic backgrounds and with great attention to costume detail. An Irish adventurer, Barry Lyndon, crosses Europe from woman to job, but in the end returns to Britain seeking a wealthy marriage. find out more...

Nick Porter sells salesmanship for a living, but the days of being on top of his game are long gone, thanks in no part to his ever losing battle with alcohol. Finally fired and discovering his wife has also decided it’s all over on the same day, Nick finds himself on his front lawn with all that is left of is worldly belongings. An adaptation of a Raymond Carver short story, don’t expect an archetypal Will Ferrell movie, this a bitter sweet drama...with some humour. A low key, thoughtful and tou find out more...

A three generation epic that starts in the present day with a reunion that is preceded by a tragedy. With regular flashbacks we follow this somewhat melodramatic family saga; the conflicts created by an overbearing father figure, resentful teens, saccharine tots, hidden affairs etc. find out more...

The first film adaptation of a Thomas Pynchon novel. The result is ... mixed. Some will enjoy the familiarly obfuscating noir-style dialogue and convoluted twists and turns of the crime caper narrative. Others will find its old school indulgence in stylish sexism and character-driven plot tiresome around the two hour mark (if not before). An impressive ensemble cast and a well made film, PTA's latest is entertaining enough.

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A dark comedy about a bi-polar Mall security officer who dreams both of the most beautiful girl in the shopping complex and of being a cop, but whose ambitions seem limited by his own ineptitude - he's not so smart and he's not that handsome. When he gets his chance at glory, catching the local flasher, he finds himself quickly thrust aside and is unable to resolve a series of thefts. However, he is likeable, in an honest Joe sort of way, and he has one strange ability: he can swing an object, t find out more...

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It's the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Life is stirred up, however, when the beautiful Ann Shankland arrives to see her alcoholic ex-husband, John Malcolm, who is secretly engaged to Pat Cooper, the woman who runs the hotel. Meanwhile, snobbish Mrs Railton-Bell discovers that the kindly if rather doddering Major Pollock, played by David Niven, who won an Oscar for his performance, a retired officer who likes to find out more...

A wonderful portrait of Ian Dury - he the polio crippled lyricist and front man for punk icons The Blockheads and a self-pitying, class conscious, angry, supremely talented loud mouth - struggling to relate to his pre-teen son and familial duties.
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Miles is a 30-something failed writer: embittered, frustrated and emotionally impotent. His one love is wine and though his fondness long ago crossed into alcoholism he is nonetheless a genuine connoisseur. Mile's best friend, Jack, is a hormonal teenager disguised as a man approaching middle age. Together this mismatched pair set off on a road trip through the vineyards of California, a last shout before Jack's financially advantageous marriage. Two unlikable, stunted characters and a lot of a find out more...

Spider is a man whose mental state has been stretched to the limit and found wanting. Finally released from medical care Spider finds himself in a half way house where his reclusive nature and the grim surroundings find him reverting to his original malaise, haunted by images from his past that he can not yet fathom. Spider is a hypnotic mixture of direction and acting, dripping in visual atmosphere and ominous revelation, Cronenberg spins an intricate web around a complicated psyche. I haven't find out more...