The morally vacuous tale of an architect who goes on a gun-happy vigilante mission after his wife is murdered and his daughter assaulted to the point of catatonia (by a very sleazy looking Jeff Goldblum in his first screen role). Stalking the dark and dingy streets of a New York, where every shadowy corner hides a low-life punk willing to kill you for your loose change, Bronson dispenses his own inimitable brand of justice. Despite its age 'Death Wish' still has the power to pack a punch and its find out more...

Clint Eastwood plays an over-the-top fascist cop prepared to break all the rules in order to nail the "bad guys". Excellent entertainment, oft quoted by US politicians, and a warning to us liberals - keep the buggers under control. find out more...

Tense and engaging account of contemporary Parisian street life. The recriminations against the notorious police for an injured friend are realised by a documentary style of film making with voyeuristic undertones. Violently realistic and bitter drama. Excellent soundtrack. find out more...

On November 13th 1990 the small New Zealand town of Aramoana was taken hostage by one of its own residents, the angry and embittered David Gray, a socially and emotionally crippled man who felt ostracized and jeered at by those he lived amongst. On that fateful day Gray murdered 13 men, women and children, and was prevented from further slaughter only by the dogged, but ill-prepared, local police. "Out Of The Blue" is a harrowing and powerful observation of events, stunningly filmed with a gritt find out more...

Billy Custigan is a rookie cop, but his background in the city's underbelly makes him the perfect man to infiltrate the mob and bring down kingpin Frank Costello. Police officer Colin Sullivan is as straight as an arrow to most who know him, but he's Costello's main man within the police department. Each knows of the existence of the other, but neither knows his identity. This is a world where every piece of information gleaned carries with it the possibility of discovery and death and the relen find out more...

Dirty Harry part three sticks ridgedly to the formula of it's predecessors, with old Clint as the bad-ass-San-Fran cop, relentlessly at odds with his superiors and generally going around looking mean. This time Harry battles to save the city from a supposed gang of trigger-happy killer-kiddywinks, and in the mean time has to grapple with his new FEMALE partner! find out more...

Crusading frontier policeman Captain Stanley captures the fugitive Burns brothers, Charley and Mikey, at the scene of a bloody rape and murder. Informing Charley that he must kill his older brother, Arthur, in order to avoid the execution of Mikey, Stanley retreats to an old jailhouse and awaits the bloody outcome. Director John Hillcoat's second collaboration with Nick Cave (here contributing the film's screenplay and soundtrack), is a taut and often brutal character study of desperation ami find out more...