Dave Gorman sets off on a journey to see if it's still possible to live in America without giving any money to 'The Man'. He's travelling coast to coast and he's not staying in any chain hotels, eating in any chain restaurants or filling up at any chain gas stations. No, on this journey only independent, Mom and Pop businesses will do. A fascinating, often funny and ultimately poignant road trip through the decay of American individuality and independence. find out more...

Set in Johannesburg (more than a welcome change to the usual formulaic Hollywood paradigm whereby LA or New York are not only the backdrop for disaster but act too as the centre-point of planet Earth), An ominous mothership hovers above Johannesburg containing an alien race of insectoid refugees. Derogatively referred to as 'Prawns' by humans they are cordoned off in an apartheid-esque fashion and forced to live a desolate and slum-like existence in the titular District 9. While forcibly relocat find out more...

This film showcases Noam Chomsky, one of America's leading linguists and political dissidents. It illustrates his message of how government and big media businesses cooperate to produce an effective propaganda machine in order to manipulate the opinions of the United States' populace. Travelling with Chomsky through Canada, Japan, Europe and across the USA, the documentary bears witness to a tireless man informing, challenging, and being confronted by the public and the press. Fascinating, distu find out more...

The death of his brother, the legendary Rex Racer, in a mysterious racing accident ten years earlier has urged young Speed, son of car-designer and team manager Pops Racer, to carry on the family legacy. But the more Speed wins the more he realises how corrupt the sport has become. Then when he enters the ultimate race, ‘The Crucible', he must decide whether to tow the line or drive for the spirit of his older brother. This Wachowski Brothers adaptation of Tatsuo Yoshida's classic 1960s Japanese find out more...

A rising biz executive with a strong line in fantasy becomes a whistle-blower on his employers' price-fixing collusion in the supply of commercial livestock additive lysine. 3 years of secret work for the FBI takes its toll on his mental health and soon after the arrest of his co-employees Mark Whitacre himself is accused of being involved in fraud on a massive scale. Matt Damon gives the performance of his life portraying the bipolaric's meltdown. Excellent stuff. find out more...

Bingham spends his life flying round the good Ole US of A making a living as somebody who professionally fires people. He loves the airport/flying ritual and having casual flings with other frequent fliers, but he is forced to reassess things when a young upwardly mobile rival threatens his life-style! An extremely funny mid-brow stab at touching contemporary American, and perhaps our own, desires and phobias. find out more...

A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider whom takes the youth under his wing. An excellent gripping drama.....'greed is good' and morality is dead. find out more...

John Cusack plays Brand Hauser, a hitman hired to assassinate oil minister Omar Sharif in the fictional Middle-Eastern state of Turaqistan, which is now run by American private corporation Tamberlain. But upon encountering the beautiful and intelligent anti-corporation/anti-corruption journalist Natalie (Marisa Tomei) and the overly sexy but incredibly childlike Yonica Babyyeah (Hilary Duff), Hauser slowly falls into moral quandry. 'War Inc' is a political satire aimed at confronting the absurdi find out more...