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CLUELESS (1995)

Certification12 Our Rating

Based on Jane Austen's Emma, but set in Beverly Hills and updated to include such essentials as mobile phones, plastic surgeons and endless shopping. 15-years-old Cher is gorgeous, popular, rich and utterly clueless. A brilliant mixture of high school satire and feel-good froth.

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Certification15 Our Rating

A brilliant movie from the same director as "Stranger Than Paradise". Our three low-life heroes escape from jail into the Louisiana swamps and find that they might have been better off inside. Off-beat, very stylish, funny and just brilliant! find out more...

CertificationPG Our Rating

A psychotic American commander worried about the subversive effects of water fluoridisation on his "vital bodily fluids" starts off an attack on the Soviet Union. No-one can stop the fighters and no-one, as yet, knows about the failsafe Doomsday Machine. Brilliant black comedy. find out more...

Certification12 Our Rating

Cady's been raised in the African wilderness until her zoologist parents relocate to America. Seemingly ill prepared for the harsh world of high school, Cady is nonetheless befriended by the school's queen bitches, a terrifying sub-species of 'the teenager'. Will Cady buckle under the peer pressure, or will she adapt her understanding of the wild to retain her sweet natured demeanour, while at the same time achieving dominance over her relentlessly cruel and self obsessed adoptive pack? Mean Gir find out more...

Certification18 Our Rating

Altman's highly acclaimed and superbly directed mish-mash of Raymond Carver's short stories. We flit between numerous characters and their strange, confusing, moving and emotive daily lives. The range of emotions, and the incredibly cynical humorous touches brilliantly deconstruct American life. find out more...
THE JERK (1979)

Certification15 Our Rating

Navin Johnson (Martin) is the adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family. Feeling that his life lacks purpose Nathan ventures out into the world to make his fortune. Along the way he he falls in love with a lady motorcycle racer, is stalked by a deranged killer and becomes a millionaire. However, Navin's journey of discovery causes him to conclude that it's better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable. Side-splittingly funny and absolutely brilliant. find out more...

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Dr Hfuhruhurr, the world's most brilliant brain surgeon, falls in love with a brain in a jar and is tempted to switch this brain with that of his hateful, but beautiful, wife. Absolutely brilliant. Steve Martin, believe it or not, find out more...

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A Broadway producer, so down on his luck that he has to seduce old ladies for money, figures out that the only way to make real money out of musicals is to make a flop. So when he finds a crazed ex-Nazi with a play titled "Springtime For Hitler" he thinks he's cracked it. A classic. find out more...

Certification15 Our Rating

Steve Buscemi ("Reservoir Dogs", "Fargo") makes his directorial debut, casting himself as the kind of scrounging, shitespouting sleazeball everyone avoids down the pub. A terminal loser, his future looks even worse when he inherits an ice-cream van and a teenage Lolita offers her assistance. Brilliant. find out more...

Certification12 Our Rating

Derek Zoolander is the male model all male models want to be, he's a legend within the fashion world...... and he makes an amoeba look over educated. Effetely nudged from his pedestal by hippy chic, the heartbroken Derek is brainwashed to assassinate the Malaysian president who is about to abolish the sweatshops that the fashion world rely so heavily upon. Zoolander picks a subject that's already fairly adept at (admittedly unintentionally) lampooning itself and then treats it with something bor find out more...