Tom falls in love with 'manic pixie dream girl' Summer, but she suddenly calls a halt to the affair and announces she just wants to be good friends. Tom is torn asunder by her decision, but as we wander back through their relationship it becomes clear Tom may have presumed more than Summer ever actually offered. '500 Days of Summer' is a clever, original, witty and perceptive indie flick about the painful vagaries of love and our eternal, most likely pointless, struggle to understand it. find out more...

Having just graduated from high school and very much looking forward to a well deserved summer holiday before college, James is distraught to discover that his parents no longer have the money to fund any of this. Suddenly just as desperate as everyone else in his small town, he takes the only summer job he can get: at an amusement park. Unbeknownst to James, this job will provide him with an exciting and invaluable education about life and love, and just about anything else you can't learn at s find out more...

A part-live part-animated imagined sequel to Lewis Carrol's classics in which a 19-year-old Alice returns to a Wonderland which she must save from the Red Queen and Jabberwocky's reign of terror and then restore to the throne the much nicer White Queen. A collection of the key manic characters from the novels are here; the Queens, the Mad Hatter, the Tweedles, and animated versions of the Cheshire Cat, White Rabbit, Blue Caterpillar, Dormouse and the March Hare amongst others.
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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...

Slacker director Linklater takes us back to the swinging 70's for his latest Generation X offering in this tale of teenage decadence. It's the last day of high school and the kids intend to party till dawn, or till they drop, whichever comes first. Fans of Reality Bites will love it. Bust out the biscuits, turn up the volume and dig those crazy, pretty kids.... find out more...

A group of college-age buddies struggle with their imminent passage into adulthood in 1959 Baltimore. A college student returns home for the Christmas holidays and picks up with the old gang as they try to fend off adulthood and marriage by hanging out at the local diner and talking about football, women, cars and rock'n'roll. Strong dialogue and believable characters take precedence over stupid action and the obnoxious caricatures that beset so many adolescent comedies. The sense of period is i find out more...

The film follows a group of high school students growing up in southern California and is supposedly based on the real-life adventures of Cameron Crowe. They hang out in malls, listen to rock'n'roll and hunt for sex like any normal teen slackers. The centre of the film is held by Jeff Spicoli, a perpetually stoned surfer dude, who faces off with the resolute Mr Hand, a man convinced that everyone is on dope. A superior teen comedy about a bunch of kids facing the hassles of growing up dealing wi find out more...

Andrew "Large" Largeman is a young actor living in perpetual hope in the dream factory that is Los Angeles. Reluctantly forced to return to his home town in New Jersey and deeply unhappy about the inevitable confrontation with his father, Andrew is unexpectedly swept off his feet by an encounter with the kookey, but charming, life logic of Sam. 'Garden State' is a sweet, indie romantic comedy, written by, directed by and starring Zach Braff, and while it's going to be a little bit cute for some, find out more...

A death obssessed teenager and a 79 year old woman who lives life to the full gang up together in one of the wittiest black comedies ever made. An inventive, enduring classic which was far ahead of its time. You mean you haven't seen it? find out more...

Juno Macguff is sixteen years old and already hard at war with the world she's on the cusp of entering; but though bright, vivacious, cynical and fiercely individual, one thing she has not prepared herself for is pregnancy. When Juno finds herself with child from her sweet natured, geeky and adoring best mate she decides the only sensible thing to do is find a good home for the baby and in the small ads finds a young, affluent couple desperate to adopt. Sadly life is rarely that simple, thoug find out more...