When Joel meets Clementine he feels alive for the first time in his life, she is everything he has so successfully repressed in himself; vivacious, impulsive and game for anything. Two years down the line and Joel finds himself alone again, and worse still he finds Clementine has wiped him from her memory. Lost and angry Joel decides to do the same, but as he enters into the process, the memories flashing across his subconscious revitalise what he thought had gone…...love, and so begins a desper
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ETRE ET AVOIR (2002)
CertificationPG Our Rating
School. Remember that? When life was all crayons and small glass bottles of milk and the winters were colder and summers dragged out for years..... aaaaaah. Aside from that great scene in Fanny And Alexander when the dad tells his kids the history of a green chair, this beautifully made documentary is about as powerful an evocation of childhood you can get on film. The crew manages not to intrude on the class and as a result we get brief sincere glimpses of children at their most open, childish
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FINDING NEVERLAND (2004)
CertificationPG Our Rating
James M Barrie is a lonely man, in a failing marriage, and a playwright whose work has seen better days. When Barrie meets a group of children in the park he finds himself enchanted, and it is not long before he has settled deep within the bosom of their family life, a loving matriarchy held together by the children's young widowed mother. Finding Neverland is based on the play by Allan Knee, and is a tender, deeply moving interpretation of Barrie's inspiration for "Peter Pan". Beautifully perf
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SPIRITED AWAY (2003)
CertificationPG Our Rating
Chihiro is moving to the country with her family, and she's not happy, but before they even reach their new home they come to a dark and foreboding tunnel gateway. Victim to her father's curiosity Chihiro finds herself in a fantastical world, a bath house for the Gods ruled by a sinister sorceress. Chipper, brave and resourceful Chihiro must begin a journey to save those dearest to her and return to the land which she knows. Spirited Away is mesmerising, the imagination and uniqueness of the sto
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THE DESCENT (2005)
Certification18 Our Rating
Neil Marshall has chosen another trapped-in-the-middle-of-nowhere horror flick to follow the splendid Dog Soldiers and has managed to pull it off with great gusto (or should that be guts-o?). This time it's a group of girlfriends who go on a daredevil caving trip where a sudden rock fall traps them inside... and it's not long before they realise that they are not alone... Gory, shocking and intense - if you don't suffer from claustrophobia before watching The Descent you probably will afterwards
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THE ILLUSIONIST (2006)
CertificationPG Our Rating
(Fictitious) ambitious Austro-Hungarian Crown Prince Leopold is politically advantageously engaged to beautiful Hungarian aristocrat Sophie, but her heart is set on an old teenage flame, the illusionist Eisenheim. The story is seen through the eyes of Leopold's protegee police inspector Uhl, whose surveillance duties include 'protecting' Sophie. Telling you too much of the intriguing plot would spoil the story but trust me - it's very good. Clues are discreetly there, the characters developed, t
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THE PRESTIGE (2006)
Certification12 Our Rating
Set against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century London two gifted young magicians competitive relationship descends into a bitter rivalry that will haunt them for the rest of their lives, their mutual loathing and jealousy in danger of destroying not just themselves but everyone around them. Prestige is, though at heart a drama, so tightly bound it puts many a conventional thriller to shame, and marks yet another intelligent, populist tour de force from ‘Memento' Christopher Nolan. And if you li
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THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS (2001)
Certification15 Our Rating
From the director of Rushmore comes the story of Royal Tenenbaum and his idiosyncratic family. Having separated from his wife ten years ago, Royal has been estranged from his strange children and wants to make up for some lost time. A little white lie gets Royal back into his family home but all will not go as he plans. Richie used to play tennis professionally until a breakdown on the court; Margot, a chain-smoking playwright has an unseemly marital past and an even dimmer present, while widowe
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ZOOLANDER (2001)
Certification12 Our Rating
Derek Zoolander is the male model all male models want to be, he's a legend within the fashion world...... and he makes an amoeba look over educated. Effetely nudged from his pedestal by hippy chic, the heartbroken Derek is brainwashed to assassinate the Malaysian president who is about to abolish the sweatshops that the fashion world rely so heavily upon. Zoolander picks a subject that's already fairly adept at (admittedly unintentionally) lampooning itself and then treats it with something bor
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