Marv is a lunkhead of incredible strength, an aggressive power he puts to merciless use when his one true love is murdered. Hartigan is the embittered, but moralistic cop who's sworn to protect a stripper and Dwight is the lover of Shellie and the inadvertent dark angel of Gail's Old Town girls, a feisty group of hookers. These are just a selection of the random characters in Rodriguez's adaptation of Frank Miller's Sin City graphic novels and it's difficult to decide which of the two is the bi find out more...

With its radical rewriting of a genre in which good had always triumphed over evil, Romero's first feature shattered the conventions of horror and paved the way for the subversive visions of directors like David Cronenberg, Tobe Hooper and Sam Raimi. The film's opening scene immediately signals its own subversiveness. In broad daylight, a brother and sister visit their father's grave, a tall man lumbers toward them, Johnny tries to frighten Barbara with a daft Boris Karloff impersonation, but su find out more...

Thinking it'll give him a chance to work on his novel, ex-school teacher Jack takes a job caretaking an isolated hotel with his family during the winter season. Soon the evil spirit of the place begins to take him over, leading to a truly shattering, horrific climax... it's redrum! find out more...

In the crumbling society of the near future a young drifter discovers that aliens from another dimension are controlling the Earth through mind control. Armed only with bubblegum, special sunglases and a sub-machinegun he takes on the evil invaders. find out more...

Another Hitchcock masterpiece, featuring some of the most inventive and unsettling camera work in cinema. Stewart plays a retired detective who is hired by a friend to follow his unstable wife. However the plot is considerably more entangled than it appears from the outset as Stewart becomes a witness to the wife's death. A moody and considered psycho-drama... find out more...

A strange little tale about porn cable TV stations, sado-masochism, deteriorating reality configurations and a plot to take-over the world through the new electronic reality. Marshall McCluhan meets The Evil Dead. Now re-released containing footage that was originally cut by the censor. find out more...

Pregnant Jenna is a small town Louisiana waitress with a gift for making the finest pies in the county, but if Jenna wants to make her dream come true, which is to start her own shop, she needs to find some money and escape her abusive husband, and lordy will that baby tie her down. "Waitress" is an easily likeable light drama with comic moments that occasionally slaps you in the face with some fairly serious issues on its otherwise good natured journey. find out more...

Another cult classic from David Lynch (Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks). Sailor and Laura are madly in love but her psychotic mother is having none of it, so they hit the road and begin an adventure peppered with plenty of sex, violence and manic music. Black, broody and very funny, this is a wild movie. find out more...

Renowned Slovenian philosopher (or clown) Slavoj Zizek lets rip on every aspect of contemporary social obsession. Refreshing, left field and, as any cultural theorist worth their salt should be, controversial. Charming fascinating and perhaps even a wee bit revelatory. find out more...