Bobby Sands was the IRA member who led the 1981 Long Kesh hunger strike as part of a campaign to achieve the status of political prisoners and not that of criminals. The first section of film deals with daily prison life, the 'dirty' protest and the violence, the second is a long discussion on the meaning of life with a sympathetic priest and the third depicts the last weeks and death of a man voluntarily dying of starvation. find out more...

The world as a lunatic asylum. Jack Nicholson plays the anarchist determined to challenge the smug system of authority and obedience that rule the roost. The first film by Czech dissident Forman after migrating from Czechoslovakia to the United States, and a superb comment on society! Won Best Picture plus others at 1975 Academy Awards. find out more...

An experimental bio-weapon is released turning thousands of people into zombies and, as the multiplying horde of frenzied crazies approach, a dangerous outlaw named Wray, a sexy stripper named Cherry, an unscrupulous smuggler named Abby and the curiously incapacitated Dr Dakota Block, amongst others, must try to escape to a place untouched by the nightmare. The B-movie reinvented, "Planet Terror" is a considerably more successful attempt at homage to the American drive-in Grindhouse cinema than find out more...

Minor theatre director Caden finds his life unravelling; suffering an undiagnosed complaint that involves loss of control of his physical functions and alone since his wife ditched him and took their daughter to go live in Berlin. Meanwhile an artistic grant allows him to direct, in a vast warehouse, an ever-expanding play, which reflects his own life and his neuroses, as the reality around him slowly disintegrates. find out more...

A genre defying little oddity from writer/director Mitchell Lichtenstein that follows the story of Dawn, the teenage spokesperson of a high school chastity league, whose burgeoning sexuality reveals a unique (and voracious!) anatomical anomaly. find out more...