In the build-up to the 1972 US elections, Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward investigated what seemed to be a minor break-in at the Democratic Party headquarters, the editor of the Post was prepared to run with the story and assigned Woodward and Carl Bernstein to it. Their painstaking research found the trail leading higher and higher in the Republican Party and, eventually, into the White House itself and led to the downfall of Nixon. An intelligent and exciting dramatic reconstruction.< find out more...

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...

Adam and his friends are youth at its most hedonistic, reared in the upper echlons of British society they are the first of their class to indulge every whim in full view of the public eye, and the booming press love them for it. This relentless and unfocused pursuit of pleasure ultimately begins to implode on the ‘Bright Young Things' and a series of self induced, and outside, events conspire to force the remnants of the group to re-evaluate their lives. Bright Young Things is adapted from Evel find out more...

A landmark in the history of the cinema; it was ranked Number 1 in the American Film Institute's 100 greatest films of all time in two polls (1998 and 2007) of more than 1,500 film industry movers and shakers and again by UK directors in a BFI poll. "Citizen Kane" narrates the rise and fall of a newspaper tycoon driven by a childhood obssession and is loosely based round the life of William Randolph Hurst, who tried to have it banned, but incorporates elements from the lives of other fat cats il find out more...

A landmark in the history of the cinema. The rise and fall of a newspaper tycoon driven by a childhood obssession - Randolph Hurst tried to have it banned! Unique in technique and narrative structure, if you only ever watch one 1940's movie this should be it. This edition is from a restored, remastered and generally souped-up print, with a heap of extras including a documentary on the wunderkind Welles and an analysis by, ahem, Barry Norman. find out more...

An intelligent media satire, sadly obscured by the brilliant "Truman Show", though in truth this is a completely different animal, with a lot more laughs. Matthew McConaughey delivers an amiable performance as small-town Texan boy Ed, who's catapulted to stardom when he's chosen as the star of a real-life 24 hour soap opera. By nature a laid back loafer, Ed basks in his new celebrity status, until it starts to affect everyone else around him. With his girlfriend banished from the show, and skele find out more...

Derrick, Jones and Travis are media students who inadvertently take their class assignment, which is to study how rumours spread, too far when they make it known to all on campus that Naomi, who is legendary for refusing to have sex, slept with her boyfriend Beau. Having been out of her gourd when the rumour started Naomi turns round and accuses Beau of rape. Though the whole story hangs on Naomi's rather curiously extreme reaction, 'Gossip' develops into quite a nice, dark little thriller. find out more...

Great teen comedy as über-bitch Kimberly coerces two other girls into a sex harrassment case against an English teacher she wants revenge on. There's great dialogue, snappy lines and some wonderful characters in this not sexually inexplicit Heathers, Election, Mean Girls type flick. Very dark and very twisted. find out more...

The true story of one of America's young rising journalistic stars. In 1998 New Republic star reporter was exposed as a liar and fraud, at least 27 of his 41 published articles were fully or partially made up. Awesomely good. NB The DVD extras include good real life interviews with 3 of the protagonists in a TV piece. find out more...

The extraordinary life of Jean Dominique, an educated Haitian who ran Radio Haiti, which, by broadcasting the truth, provided the focus of opposition to various venomous and corrupt regimes, Papa Doc, Baby Doc, the US run military et al, across a period of over 30 years. Jean is a charismatic protagonist, his personal history colourful not only for his long, evidently satisfying career, his family and his similarly courageous and committed wife Michèle Montas, but for how it intersects with and find out more...