Lucy Fife Donaldson says: "The film of the TV show that made Johnny Depp’s name and he spent the rest of his career getting away from. ChanningTatum and Jonah Hill star as former high school opposites and new recruits inthe police force tasked with going back to high school as undercover narcoticsagents. Hill and Tatum (proving he can be buff AND funny) make a good pairingin what turns out to be a well-judged and frequently funny film that has itstongue firmly in its cheek. It also find out more...

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The story of Barry Seal, an American pilot who became a drug-runner for the CIA in the 1980s in a clandestine operation that would be exposed as the Iran-Contra Affair.

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Take two black cops, one a clean-living family man and the other a silver-tongued playboy. Add a nervous murder witness who'll talk only to one of them, a liberal dose of sharp one liners, and an unfeasable role reversal. Mix well to enjoy this streetwise, jive-talking, buddy-buddy action comedy. find out more...

He was the best agent that the CIA ever had, but these days Black Dynamite only answers to one boss... his inner him. When ‘The Man’ ices Black Dynamite's brother; starts pumping heroin into the local orphanage; and (for God’s sake!!) floods the ghetto with a secret weapon disguised as common malt liquor, the streets are goin’ t’ flow red with ‘justice’.
An almost un-unnervingly well done pastiche/spoof of some of the best (better?) of 70s Blaxploitation flicks. find out more...

Aspiring musician Miguel, confronted with his family's ancestral ban on music, enters the Land of the Dead to find his great-great-grandfather, a legendary singer. —Disney/Pixar

 

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Lucy Fife Donaldson says: "Mark Wahlberg is pulled back into the smuggling business when his brother-in-law falls foul of a no-good gang, run by Giovanni Ribisi (who looks and sounds the meanest he has yet). What follows is a fairly standard, but no less fun for it, caper of heist plans and double (double) crosses that goes to Panama and back. If you can’t fall for the easy charm of Wahlberg, not to mention the wiry charisma of Ribisi and Ben Foster, then this is unlikely to be of much find out more...

Chev Chelios has just run out of luck, a man of highly dubious morals his days in the LA underworld come crashing to a halt when he discovers he's been injected with a drug that results in his heart ceasing to beat. Chev's only hope, until he can find an antidote, is to keep the adrenalin thumping through his system and, to this end, he sets about becoming a one-man wrecking crew. Reminiscent of an updated 50s B-movie Crank is a remarkably twisted main stream action movie, brutal, grotesquely hu find out more...

After Ferdinand, a bull with a big heart, is mistaken for a dangerous beast, he is captured and torn from his home. Determined to return to his family, he rallies a misfit team on the ultimate adventure.

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Black comedy buddy action with Roth and the late Tupak Shakur superbly cast as a couple of losers trying to get off drugs not very successfully! Turned away from one rehab unit after another, if the drugs don't kill 'em first then the cops, or the dealers, probably will! Well played and action packed. find out more...