When Joel meets Clementine he feels alive for the first time in his life, she is everything he has so successfully repressed in himself; vivacious, impulsive and game for anything. Two years down the line and Joel finds himself alone again, and worse still he finds Clementine has wiped him from her memory. Lost and angry Joel decides to do the same, but as he enters into the process, the memories flashing across his subconscious revitalise what he thought had gone…...love, and so begins a desper
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GATTACA (1997)
Certification15 Our Rating
Fascinating futuristic yarn set in a world that's finally cracked genetic engineering. Only the perfect are rewarded with social acceptance, with the un-improved branded as in-valids. But aspiring astronaut Ethan Hawke is not about to be held back by his "imperfections", so, borrowing the genes of the enhanced but wheelchair-bound Jude Law, he cons his way into a job at the gigantic Gattaca corporation. His ensuing affair with the immaculate Uma Thurman, however, triggers a desperate race to avo
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MY SUMMER OF LOVE (2004)
CertificationU Our Rating
Mona’s teenage life defines the word ‘crap’, not tragic, just without hope; her brother is the only family she has left and he’s found God in the same obsessively sociopathic way that he originally found booze, while a weekly hump in the back of a van with a married man actually constitutes fun rather than repetitive sexual abuse. Into this world wanders Tamsin, pretty, pretentious, spoilt but ignored and with a dangerous sense of mischief born of arrogance and naivety. An intense relationship b
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PARENTHOOD (1990)
Certification15 Our Rating
Essentially a classy soap about the problems of bringing up children and keeping a family together, the film is made by the superb comedy lines and comic acting of its numerous stars, notably Mr Martin. Despite the happy ending it could just deter anyone considering parenthood! Hilarious.
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THE COOLER (2003)
Certification15 Our Rating
Bernie Lootz is one of the best coolers in the casino business and his boss, Vegas mobster Shelly Kaplow, knows it. Bernie's method of halting a punters lucky streak? All he has to do is get near them, because the secret to Bernie's success is that he's a loser of gargantuan proportions, everything he touches turns rotten, that is until he meets Natalie, a waitress that works in Kaplow's casino. Bernie is in love, but with this new found wellbeing Bernie's effectiveness as a cooler plummets, a p
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THE GOOD GIRL (2002)
Certification15 Our Rating
Justine Last works on the cosmetics counter at a store in small town America, married and in her thirties she's becoming painfully aware that life is not going to invite her to the party, but when Justine begins an unlikely affair with her cute but unstable co-worker she sees for the first time an opportunity to escape her dead end existence. The Good Girl is a kooky comedy drama that pulls out of Aniston her best performance to date, enjoyable and considering the basic genre of romantic comedy
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THE GRADUATE (1967)
Certification15 Our Rating
One of the great sixties films, the one that brought Dustin Hoffman to public notice, as he plays an alienated Los Angelian rich kid searching for a meaning in life and discovering sex. Great movie to be watched, or rewatched, and with a superb soundtrack by Simon and Garfunkel.
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