January 1966: in a Paris flat police discover the body of Georges Figon. A year earlier, tired of dodgy deals and petty scams, ex-con Georges Figon had gone in search of something big and, through his underworld connections, had got himself hired as producer for a documentary on de-colonialisation to be written by Marguerite Duras and directed by Georges Franju. The well-known Moroccan dissident Mehdi Ben Barka was to be the film's 'historical advisor', but the whole film project was an elaborat find out more...

Life On Mars is the smash-hit cop show starring John Simm as a detective who is involved in a car accident and wakes to find himself transported back to 1973 – a world dominated by Ford Cortinas, sheep-skin jackets, flares, silly haircuts, glam rock and very hard coppers. In his altered state of reality Sam must prove himself to his 'new boss', the hot-headed DCI Gene Hunt, all the while unsure whether he is awake or dreaming. In Episode 1 he hunts a serial killer and in Episode 2 he attempts to find out more...

Australia's dark secret of institutionalist eugenics gets an impressive and heartfelt celluloid airing in this adaptation of Doris Pilkington Garimara's book, a story based around the astonishing real life journey of three young girls, removed from their true Aboriginal families and transplanted to a boarding school/prison to be trained as domestic servants (from whence it was hoped they would quietly blend into white society), and their 1,500 mile trek home with only a rabbit proof fence to gui find out more...

A stinking rich businessman is kidnapped by a highly proficient and ruthless gang for a 50 million Euro ransom. Away from his terrified isolation he becomes side-lined and alienated from his social base; the media alienate his wife and family from him by having a field day with his decadent life style, his business colleagues jostle for power and the police only care about catching the criminals, not saving his life.
This is a fine state of the nation thriller. find out more...

Unpleasant ex-cop Joong-ho Eom who works as a charmless pimp is severely troubled that his girls have started walking out on him, that is until he discovers that they all shared the same phone number for their last customer, so he starts to track the guy down. This horror-thriller is a film that, not unlike "Memories of Murder" in terms of plot direction and mood, takes convention and turns it inside out. Exploitative yes, violent yes, funny sometimes, art house no, original and entertaining, ve find out more...

When Melquides Estrada is found murdered it is presumed he's just another illegal immigrant and consequently of no concern to the American authorities. Buried in an unnamed pauper's grave it would seem that is the end of the matter, but Melquaides knew a good man in ranch foreman Pete Perkins, a tough as nails individual determined to see justice done and honour the wishes of his dead friend. 'Three Burials' is a mesmerising tale of friendship, revenge and redemption, driven by a dominating perf find out more...