When a friendly, successful suburban teacher and father (James Mason, in one of his most striking roles) is prescribed cortisone for a painful, possibly fatal, affliction he grows dangerously addicted to the experimental drug. His transition from loving father to homicidal despot is depicted on a scale more akin to operatic tragedy than melodrama and, on top of the inestimable pleasures of Mason's performance, a narrative that explores society's use of drugs provides an unexpectedly prophetic di
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CHILDREN OF MEN (2006)
Certification15 Our Rating
In a not far off dystopian future women have become infertile and governments have forgotten that Orwell's ‘1984' was supposed to be a searing indictment of what NOT to do. Into this less than hopeful world arrives a young woman who has achieved the miracle of pregnancy, everyone wants the child as a cynical totem for the people, and those planning rebellion are as ruthless as those in power. Finding a reluctant but increasingly determined guardian in the form of Theo, mother and child go in sea
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ELECTRICITY (2014)
Certification15 Our Rating
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HOUSE SEASON 1 DISC 2 (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
1.5 – House's faith – or his lack of it – is tested when a nun is admitted to the hospital with symptoms she believes are stigmata. 1.6 – It's House's birthday but unsurprisingly he's not in the mood for celebrating, instead he puzzles over the case of a schizophrenic patient with a tumor. 1.7 – A woman is admitted to the clinic with what House suspects is African sleeping sickness but how did she contract it? 1.8 – The team are under pressure when a high school student is poisoned and House att
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JOURNAL D'UN CURE DE CAMPAGNE (1950)
CertificationPG Our Rating
A new priest arrives in the French country village of Ambricourt to attend to his first parish, but the apathetic and hostile rural congregation reject him immediately. Through his diary entries, the physically sick young man relays a crisis of faith that threatens not only to drive him away from the village, but also from God. With this, his fourth film, Bresson began to implement a stylistic philosophy in his film making, stripping away all inessential elements from his compositions, the dialo
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SKINS SERIES 1 DISC 2 (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
Episode 5, Sid; Sid's a failure.
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TEETH (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
A genre defying little oddity from writer/director Mitchell Lichtenstein that follows the story of Dawn, the teenage spokesperson of a high school chastity league, whose burgeoning sexuality reveals a unique (and voracious!) anatomical anomaly.
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THE PAINTED VEIL (2006)
Certification12 Our Rating
Flighty upper class Londoner Kitty is desperate to escape her repressive family life and accepts the marriage proposal of uptight Shanghai based bacteriologist Walter. Quickly bored she instigates her husband's hatred by having an affair with promiscuous diplomat Charlie and, as if in revenge, Walter drags her off to work in a mountainous cholera infected province in rural China. Some couples grew apart, some together....highly recommended.
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