If you ever doubted it's grim up North, here's the proof! T' pit's about to close and the brass band needs a flugelhorn player. But then Grimley girl made good Gloria comes back to her roots, and eeh bah gum, the lass may just be able to turn the troubled town around. One of the best films to come out of Britain in recent years! find out more...

Darren, Wayne and J.D are bestest buddies, life is simple, you hang out, drink beer, laugh at jokes about guffing and worship the very ground Neil Diamond walks on. But when Darren falls for the beautiful and manipulative Judith, the boys happy trio is shattered. Wayne and J.D decide they must do everything within their power to save Darren from a world of neutered enslavement, but our two heroes are pretty low down the 'bright spark' ladder and their attempts meet with predictable disaster. Evi find out more...

Every year some British gem pops up in the cinema, destined to be added to my blu ray collection, a film guaranteed to lift the spirits for years to come. This is 2019's feel good film, yes you know the story, and yes you can figure out every possible turn even if you don't, but it's just such a lovely movie. We get one man's journey of self discovery and realisation of what's important, and we get the story of ten fishermen, who's talent is harnessed against all odd find out more...

For shy and awkward Ryoichi, dreams of musical superstardom have long since faded and he s resigned himself to a lifetime of unrewarding office work for a company that barely acknowledges his existence. But when he randomly buys a pet turtle named Pikadon, a series of events are put into place that not only give Ryoichi the chance to fulfil his rock and roll fantasies, they might just bring about the end of the world. With more imagination in the first ten minutes th find out more...

Independent single mother Donna, who owns a small hotel on an idyllic Greek island, is about to let go of Sophie, the spirited daughter she's raised alone. For Sophie's wedding Donna has invited her two lifelong best girlfriends, the practical, no-nonsense Rosie and, from her one-time backing band Donna and the Dynamos, the wealthy, multi-divorced Tanya. But on a quest to find the identity of her father Sophie has secretly invited three men from her mum's past, one of which she is convinced is find out more...

Nick, a high-school senior, is still infatuated with his fickle ex (he thinks it's love, but believe me it ain't) when, at a gig he and his band played, he meets Norah. Over the course of the next eight or nine hours boy and girl embark on an increasingly bizarre and ineffectual urban road trip that cements their common bonds and increasing mutual affection, but hey it's easy to screw up at any age so what are the chances these two teens are going to make smooth progress? Witty, gentle, warm find out more...

Ulysses, Delmar and Pete have just escaped a chain gang and are high tailing it across the country to recover a fortune in hidden treasure. There is only one flaw in this otherwise faultless plan......they're clueless. 'O Brother Where Art Thou' is loosely based on Homer's Odyssey (when I say loose I mean like the jumper that you don't know whether to wear, or peg out as a tent) and is a rip-roaring comedy adventure, with all the quirky charm that you expect from the Coen brothers. The sound tra find out more...

Fiona and Dom are teachers at a rural school. They share a passion for Latin dance and they re deeply in love. On weekends, they enter dance competitions around the country and their house is crammed with trophies. One night, as they are driving back from a competition, they encounter a man on a clumsy suicide mission, standing in the middle of the road. They swerve to avoid him and crash, throwing their lives into turmoil...

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Svengali tells the story of Dixie, a small town guy with a big dream. He leaves a humble Welsh mining town for the bright lights of London, intent on becoming the manager of the best band in the world. Svengali is a nicely done and very likeable british indie comedy drama.

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30 years after losing his job as conductor of the Bolshoi orchestra (for hiring Jews) and now a cleaner, Andrei Filipov discovers an invite from the Ch'telet Theater in Paris for the Bolshoi to perform there. Hiding the message he gathers all his old hands together and sets off to do the show.
A mad cap comedy drama with a top notch classical music soundtrack. find out more...