Lee returns to his previous polemic and fine filmmaking form with Chi-Raq, a musical-comedy satire about the cycle and effects of violence and gun crime on black communities in America. The story is all Lysistrata (Aristophanes); women withhold sex from men in the hopes of making them stop using violence against each other. It's far from politically correct, not nearly as find out more...
Cockney safe-cracker Dom Hemingway is released from prison after serving a 12-year sentence for refusing to snitch. Eager to collect his reward from suave, psychotic mob boss Mr Fontaine, Dom heads to southern France with his only friend and accomplice Dickie. Dom is a drug fuelled, sex obsessed, self-regarding, over compensating sociopath…all good, but find out more...
A screwed-up runaway teenage girl accepts a lift from a Mr Nice Guy, but soon realises he's a notorious serial killer. Having left him for dead she is soon arrested and facing a lifetime in prison, escapes, only to meet the killer again. A high quality, brutally comic, thriller with attitude. Very dark and very good.
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David O Russell brings Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper back together onscreen and it's a sensational success. Based on the real life story of Joy, a woman who took the cable sales channel by storm and whose mop is now sold all over the world in its thousands, this is a heart-breaking, heart-warming and totally heartfelt comedy-drama. If you want to spend a couple of hours feeling the bumpy ups and downs of life through the lens of a beautifully determined and en find out more...
