As a young pilot returns home in May 1945, a relationship is formed as he desperately contacts a radio operator before bailing out of the sky. He lives, evading his celestial escort, meets the aforementioned operator and falls in love. But he must face a heavenly court to decide if he should live or die. Amazing.

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Adam Wingard tries to re-vamp this horror success with a modicum of inventiveness and a handful of intriguing ideas. Unfortunately, despite the digital camera glitch aesthetic which almost elevates the film above average, it's remains a bog-standard 'found footage' scare fest that relies on making its audience jump. Complete with ludicrous curiosity of a group of mildly irritating teens.

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Erin Brockovich is an unemployed, single mum with little education or prospects only her gift for the gab and no bullshit attitude keep her above water. Having blagged her way into a law firm she stumbles across a cover up which has left a small community poisoned. The further Erin digs the more obsessed she becomes, and dragging her initially reluctant law firm in with her she prepares to do battle for one of the largest direct-action settlements in American legal history. Similar in style, and find out more...

Sean Penn plays a severely mentally handicapped father who decides to make a desperate and unlikely bid to regain custody of his young daughter. I Am Sam is a man sized tissue box of a film that has you sobbing to the point of dehydration, what saves it from this utter abyss (OK, that's personal bias) are the powerful performances and the gratefully received wit and charm. find out more...

Under Islamic law it's illegal for Iranian females to attend football/soccer matchs, but in this film a number attempt to smuggle themselves into a crucial World Cup qualifier against Bahrain. We follow the fortunes of a group who are caught, placed in a compound inside the stadium and guarded by a group of somewhat unsophisticated male army conscripts. The guards are totally terrified by the red tape of the situation they are in, for example, and most hilariously, when one of the girls needs to find out more...

Adapted from a story by Stephen King, this is the best prison movie you'll ever see. A city banker's life is changed forever when he receives a double life sentence in the notorious Shawshank prison. Freeman is superb as the old-timer who befriends him. A powerfully uplifting tale with a twist. find out more...