In the early seventies Venice beach California was a hairy place to go surfing, ruled by the Z-Boys, a group of hedonistic wave riders who weren't prepared to share the beach with anyone. The film follows the Z-boys pioneering transition from surfing to skateboarding, and what a cheesy sorry mess they make of things. The original documentary of a similar name is a considerably more gripping and inspiring way to pass the time, though it lacks the glossy, cliché ridden teen drama aspect of this. find out more...

Mr Majestyk just wants to harvest melons, but his no bullshit attitude to life has landed him in some serious mob trouble, not that he isn't willing and able to hand out just as bad as he gets. Mr Majestyk is classic hard as nails, one man demolition Derby, Charles Bronson, but without the moral dodginess of Death Wish, it's also scripted by Elmore Leonard….which can't be bad. find out more...

After the murder of eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 German Olympics the Israeli secret service, Mossad, were sent to wreak terrible vengeance on those it was believed were responsible. Avner is the young man chosen to head up the unit, but as Mossad's assassination team effectively wipes out suspect after suspect he begins to doubt the wisdom of their mission and his ideological faith gives way to guilt and confusion. Munich is an unblemished technical exercise from Spielberg, the action find out more...

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A gripping, Oscar nominated, reconstruction of the rise of the Baader-Meinhof Group, a bunch of radical terrorists who rose in the mid-70s using military means, arson, bank raids, assassinations and kidnappings, to attempt the overthrow of the German state, many of whose personnel had their roots in the country's Nazi state. find out more...

It's city kids in the country time again, this time two couples in rural Spain in the 1970s with weirdo inbreeding locals hunting and grunting round their rustic retreat. A tense and pacey movie, I loved it. find out more...

A bunch of likely London lads are hired to rob a bank of its safety deposit boxes, but unfortunately this bunch of amateurs aren't really the best outfit to pull the job off. While the robbery doesn't go exactly according to plan, the scandal that they inadvertently bring to light may become the boys' best hope of dodging a very long stretch at Her Majesty's pleasure, or worse. Apparently based loosely on a true event, Princess Margaret(?) Lord Lambton(?), the Bank Job is a highly enjoyable, pac find out more...

An Insurance Salesman/Ex-Cop is caught up in a criminal conspiracy during his daily commute home.

 

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