The lives of four LA women are changed forever by the discovery of a dead body. A woman, miserable in her circumscribed life caring for her domineering mother is the one who finds the girl. Another, believing the body to be her long missing sister, is somehow liberated. An older woman, married to a man who pays her little attention, finds darkly relevant evidence in a storage unit. The mother of the dead girl, who had left home some years before, visits the last place her daughter lived and make find out more...

This is, along with Hawks' The Big Sleep, easily the most intelligent of all screen adaptations of Chandler's work. Altman in fact stays pretty close to the novel's basic narrative (though there are a couple of crucial changes), but where he comes up with something totally original is in his ironic updating of the story and characters: Gould's Marlowe is a laid-back, shambling slob who, despite his incessant claim that everything is 'OK with me,' actually harbours the same honourable ideals as C find out more...

From the best selling book by Umberto Eco comes this brilliant film adaptation. Father William of Baskerville arrives at a monastary to participate in a theological dispute. However murder and intrigue are afoot. William finds himself once again at odds with the Inquisition. Mediaeval whodunit! find out more...

Jerry, a homicide detective, decides to take one last case when the mother of a murdered 8-year-old girl begs him to find the childs killer. The Pledge is a stylish, slow burner of a movie, dark and ominous in spirit, more intense drama than thriller. Well worth watching. find out more...

A suspenseful documentation of the search for Zodiac killer, who made the headlines with his apparently random killings and his coded messages to the press as to his identity, whilst killing with impunity, largely in the San Francisco Bay area of Northern California, in the 1970s. The story follows that of puzzle solver and cartoonist Robert Graysmith and is reflected in the somewhat amateurish, if occasionally compulsive, efforts of various resource stretched California police units. find out more...