Charlie Kaufman is a screen writer struggling to adapt Susan Orlean's best selling novel "The Orchid Thief". As he tries to get to grips with his work Charlie must also deal with his twin brother/alter ego(?) Donald, a problem compounded by the gradual but seamless blending of reality and fiction. A surreal tale which defies the imagination of us mere mortals, Adaptation is an intelligent, crackingly performed, hilarious and perceptive flick, Spike Jonze's second feature lacks the "you what!!?" find out more...

Set over one weekend we follow the dramatic turn of events that overtakes taxi driver Phil and his disillusioned family. It is only imminent tragedy that finally brings them together in an act of altruistic love that had begun to seem beyond them. All or Nothing is classic Mike Leigh, a social satire that's as emotionally demanding as it is bittingly funny. nominated for the Palme D'or at Cannes this is an intelligent and perceptive observation, but while Topsy Turvy promised an expansion of Lei find out more...

Talented young sketch artist Jerome Platz escapes from high school to a tiny East Coast art college. Here his ambition is to become, like his hero Picasso, the world's greatest artist. Unfortunately the beauty and craft of Jerome's portraiture are not appreciated in an art class that he finds bewildering and bogus, neither his harsh judgments of his classmates' efforts nor his later attempts to create pseudo-art of his own win him any admirers, though he does attract the attentions of his dream find out more...

A small time theatrical agent finds himself dragged into a Mafia hitman's telescopic sights after inadvertently doing his job. A return to comedy for Allen, although not a return to slapstick, in this whimsical piece which is funny, sad and nostalgic. find out more...

How far does macho male bonding go? Well take 'the laidback, stunted heroes of a Judd Apatow comedy and strand them in the too-cool-for-school environs of a zero-budget mumblecore romance? And then got them to have sex on camera?'. That's about as far as it goes... Artist Andrew has been living a spirited life so when he turns up at old college mate Ben's gaff, he derides him for his white picket fence life-style.To save Ben from marital castration Andrew drags him off to meet some bohemian fr find out more...

Albert Markovski's life has been pretty weird lately, a fact that hasn't gone find out more...

Maggie's plan to have a baby on her own is derailed when she falls in love with John, a married man, destroying his volatile marriage to the brilliant and impossible Georgette. But one daughter and three years later, Maggie is out of love and in a quandary: what do you do when you suspect your man and his ex wife are actually perfect for each other?

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Napoleon may look like a super-nerd, but this lad's got attitude! find out more...

A New Jersey bus driver, making all the stops, writes poetry on his lunch break and lives for the micro-moments of shared understanding in a world filled with misunderstanding and mundanity. Jarmusch captures the poise and elegance of everyday life and artistic pursuit with aplomb in this suburban portrait of greatness.

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A quirky, clever and charming movie from rookie director Anderson, who flies in the face of convention by making the hero of this high school-based comedy a slightly geeky academic who's anything but the all-American kid. Max Fischer is a brilliant but mixed-up scholarship kid at the Rushmore Academy, with a frenzied timetable and an uncanny knack of baffling both students and teachers alike. He attracts the attention of Blume (the superb Bill Murray), a rich, bored, middle-aged parent, apparen find out more...