An ambitious journalist wants to get to the top of his profession. In order to get the inside scoop on a murder, he feigns mental illness and goes undercover in the county hospital's psychiatric unit, where the murder was witnessed by three of the inmates. Immersed into the world of the mentally unsound and subject to intense shock treatment, he soon tips the balance of sanity and pays the ultimate price for his "rehearsed nightmare". More harrowing than "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest", Shock
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SPIDERMAN (2001)
Certification12 Our Rating
Tobey Maguire is up there with Michael Keaton as the perfect casting choice for a super hero, diminutive and unassuming in their day wear, but utterly convincing once they donned the kitsch lycra. After a mutant spider bites Peter Parker he suddenly gains the most incredible powers. At first Peter uses these gifts for his own benefit but after tragedy strikes he resolves himself to fighting evil (in particular the rather wasted talents of Dafoe as the Green Goblin) and defending the good people
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THE PARALLAX VIEW (1974)
Certification15 Our Rating
An investigative journalist finds himself in a bizarre nightmare as he tries to find out if there is any pattern behind the series of deaths of witnesses to the assassination of a US Senator. The clues he follows lead to the Parallax Corporation, a business that our man (Beatty) believes is secretly recruiting sociopathic types and training them as assassins. He enrols in their therapy programme......... A very smart conspiracy thriller with numerous 'parallels' to the JFK assassination. Top no
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THE SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (1957)
CertificationPG Our Rating
Film Noir from the Ealing funny man! Mackendrick's US debut is a rat-trap of a movie in which a vile NY gossip hustler (Tony Curtis) grovels for his 'Mr Big' (Burt Lancaster). Lancaster plays JJ Hunsecker, a monstrous, amoral and incestuous news columnist obsessed with wrecking his kid sister's romance. The dark streets stink of corruption and fear. Amoral and awesome with a great jazz soundtrack.
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VIDEODROME (1979)
Certification18 Our Rating
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.
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ZOOLANDER (2001)
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
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