Set in Orange County, California, in an age where America has lost its ‘war on drugs', a reluctant undercover cop is ordered to start spying on his friends, the consequence of which is a paranoid journey into the absurd, where identities and loyalties are impossible to decode and even your own motives become unclear. Scanner Darkly is a cautionary tale of drug use based on the novel by Philip K Dick and born of his own experiences. Like a graphic novel come to life, the film uses live action pho
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BLUE VELVET (1986)
Certification18 Our Rating
It's sick, it's weird, it's spooky, but it's compulsive viewing. Forget Brat Packs and Rambo, this is the dark side to America. Beneath the squeaky clean surface lurk neuroses and perversions, degradation and despair. Brilliantly done, this film will haunt you.
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BONNIE AND CLYDE (1967)
Certification15 Our Rating
An all time classic 60s movie glamourising the real life story of the Barrow gang who terrorised the American South in the early 30s. 'Reclaiming the American gangster movie, after it had been stolen by the Nouvelle Vague, Penn's film was so successful (and so imitated) that it inevitably met with some grudging devaluation. But it's still great, half comic fairytale, half brutal fact, it reflects the essential ambiguity of its heroes by treading a no man's land suspended between reality and fant
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C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005)
Certification15 Our Rating
Eight-year-old Zachary has, so far, enjoyed life as his father's favourite son, as the possessor of a gift for healing and as younger sibling to a tearaway, a jock and a bookworm, but this relatively idyllic childhood in Québec is cast under the shadow of his dad's suspicions when he is discovered wearing a dress. Seven years on it's 1975 and Zac is in thrall to Ziggy Stardust and his cousin's boyfriend, a confusing situation for him, made more complicated by a history of trying to satisfy his d
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CASABLANCA (1942)
CertificationPG Our Rating
Nothing more can be said about this classic melodrama from the peak of the Hollywood studio-film era. Hardened cynic Bogart softens when he meets old flame Bergman who is now a refugee in neutral wartime Casablanca. Together they outwit the Germans... and of course there's that famous song. Watch this classic or some day you'll regret it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow...
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CRASH (CRONENBERG) (1998)
Certification18 Our Rating
David Cronenberg puts the human psyche under the microscope here, with the central characters seemingly hypnotised by their own dark compulsions. James and Catherine have an open relationship, proudly regaling each other with the ice-cold details of their latest extra-marital exploits, but a head-on crash involving Holly Hunter provides the catalyst for James's erotic obsession with auto accidents and, after hooking up with Vaughan, who re-stages celebrity car crashes, and his lover, who wears l
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DEAD MAN'S SHOES (2004)
Certification18 Our Rating
Richard escaped the depressed small town of his birth by joining the army, in doing so he also rescinded responsibility for his naive and simple brother Anthony, inadvertently placing the defenceless lad into the hands of Sonny, a sadistic local drug kingpin. Seven years later Richard has returned, his only focus revenge, now well equipped to exact it and teetering on the edge of sanity. Dead Man's Shoes is a brutal, hypnotic tale, which tears along at a breathless pace thanks in large part to P
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DEXTER SEASON 1 DISC 1 (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
By day, Dexter Morgan is a jovial blood spatter expert working for the Miami Metropolitan Police Department's forensic lab, but by night he is a disciplined and murderous psychopath who stalks the city dispensing his own inimitable brand of punishment to those murderers, rapists and all-round-bad-guys who have managed to evade justice.
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DEXTER SEASON 1 DISC 2 (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
By day, Dexter Morgan is a jovial blood spatter expert working for the Miami Metropolitan Police Department's forensic lab, but by night he is a disciplined and murderous psychopath who stalks the city dispensing his own inimitable brand of punishment to those murderers, rapists and all-round-bad-guys who have managed to evade justice.
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DEXTER SEASON 1 DISC 3 (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
By day, Dexter Morgan is a jovial blood spatter expert working for the Miami Metropolitan Police Department's forensic lab, but by night he is a disciplined and murderous psychopath who stalks the city dispensing his own inimitable brand of punishment to those murderers, rapists and all-round-bad-guys who have managed to evade justice.
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