Michael Farraday (Jeff Bridges), a widowed father still struggling to get over the death of his FBI agent wife, accidentally becomes friends with the family across the road when he rescues their young son after an accident. But Michael soon starts to feel uneasy about Oliver (Tim Robbins) and wife Cheryl (Joan Cusack) despite their hospitality, seizing on minor anomalies and evasions to fuel his suspicions. Convinced that Oliver is actually an anti-Goverment terrorist, Michael decides to mount h find out more...

1999 and Sierra Leone is in the midst of civil war, the rebels infamously using an army of indoctrinated children to do their genocidal work. In the midst of this bloodshed two unlikely men are drawn together, one a desperate father whose son has become a rebel soldier, the other a self-serving white Rhodesian mercenary in search of an immense uncut diamond. The two are bound together by their wildly divergent, but inextricably linked, quests and it is here that the action of the film lies as th find out more...

Phyllis Dietrichson is trapped in a loveless marriage to a man who inspires in her nothing but contempt, but rather than leave him Phyllis decides to kill him and collect on the insurance policy she's had set up with the help of her lover, and naive partner in crime, insurance salesman Walter Neff. The only flaws in their plan are the company's reluctance to pay out so much, the diligence of Neff's increasingly suspicious colleague, (and his 'little man'), and the exemplary ruthlessness of Ph find out more...

Chris Johnson can see into the future, not very far, but hey even a couple of minutes grace could have saved me an awful lot of fallout. Reluctantly conscripted into a government agency Chris uses his gift to help thwart some very bad people from detonating something truly unpleasant in the very heart of the only thing or place that the Chilly Peppers ever sing about, LA. Next is a very silly action thriller, but if you enter in to it with only escapism on your mind it does the job admirably. find out more...

Angelina Jolie slips into action-woman mode as Evelyn Salt, a CIA spy accused of being a Russian spy, which she may indeed be, who is involved in a potentially apocalyptic plot to nuke... who? You'll have to watch 'Salt' to find out.
There is lots of running, jumping and betrayals in this preposterous neo-Cold War actioner, which has been favourably compared to recent Bond movies. Two reputable critics, Roger Ebert and Peter Bradshaw, both raved about 'Salt' ... so check it out. find out more...

Jack is a hit man and weapons expert who finds himself hurriedly relocating from the icy savannah of Sweden to the remote mountains of northern Italy. It is here, when he’s presented with the unexpected chance of happiness, that Jack resolves to end his morally bankrupt profession; but he has become more prey than hunter and the noose is tightening. Anton Corbijn has created a beautifully atmospheric and minimalist film, rich in a visual mood more evocative of some of the best of European cinema find out more...

A totally seductive knockabout movie with Robert Mitchum 'Duke' and Jane Greer 'Chiquita Graham' in fine form. Duke has to catch the culprit for a payroll heist to prove his own innocence and shake off a pursuing army officer, a chase that takes him to Mexico, where he meets Chiquita, who is independently after the same con-man, and here they find action, adventure and romance. A fast paced narrative with an outstanding supporting cast, especially Ramon Novarro as Inspector General Ortega. find out more...

A suprisingly snappy and intelligent, if Hollywood generic, conspiracy thriller. Clive Owen plays the manically driven British interpol detective determined, along with Naomi Watts' New York DA, to nail the bosses of a powerful international bank that launders dirty money, deals arms and murders to cover its tracks. A classic shoot-up scene takes place in New York's Guggenheim Museum and there's a nifty chase through Istanbul's Grand Bazaar. find out more...

1988; Bobby Green is making his way in the Brooklyn club scene, he runs a chic joint, and, as long as he keeps his nose clean, may be in with a slice of one of the biggest crime syndicates in New York's history. Bobby's estranged family, however, do not share his ambitions; his dad and brother are cops and when they start to close in on Bobby's potential partners he is placed in an uncomfortable moral dilemma. "We Own The Night" is a slick and atmospheric dramatic thriller; generic and clichéd o find out more...