It's the late 19th century and in the West the railways are coming. Ruthless outlaw Ben Wade and his equally immoral gang feed off the wealth the lines bring, but after he's captured Wade is forced to confront his worst enemy, his conscience. As they travel across the deserts of Arizona towards the train that will deliver him to ultimate justice, a grudging respect develops between Wade and escort Dan, a dirt poor farmer who knows the values of right and wrong, but with Ben's men in hot pursuit
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BULLET FOR THE GENERAL (1966)
Certification18 Our Rating
The first and best of the Italian "Mexi-Westerns", on a par with Leone's and with a haunting soundtrack. An American mercenary teams up with a bandit on the fringes of the revolutionaries in order to assinate their leader. A violent political film from the same pen as The Battle Of Algiers.
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GERONIMO: AN AMERICAN LEGEND (1993)
Certification12 Our Rating
An authentically bloody chronicle of the last Apache leader as recorded in the memoirs of one of the cavalrymen who hunted him down. The film covers his fight to preserve the lands of his people and the growing admiration and understanding of his white adversaries. It's all enough to make the red earth of the Moab desert curdle with blood and shame. Fine play from Patric, Duvall, Studi and Hackman in this great biopic.
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HIDEOUS KINKY (1999)
Certification15 Our Rating
A marvelous, great looking adaptation of Esther Freud's acclaimed novel. Kate Winslet plays discontented mum Julia, who decides to swap rainy '70s London for sweltering, dusty Morocco. She soon discovers, however, that life on the breadline with two young daughters (5 and 7 year-olds) in Marrakesh is not much more fun than it was in London, and matters aren't helped when she falls for a swarthy young street hustle and one of the kids falling victim to the local lurgy. Bristol 9-year-old Carrie M
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IN THIS WORLD (2002)
Certification15 Our Rating
We follow young Jamal on the long dangerous land journey from a refugee camp on the Pakistan Afghanistan border thru' Iran, Turkey, Italy and France to the new Mecca; London. Minimalist in dialogue and very naturalistic. Superb.
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JULIA (2009)
Certification15 Our Rating
Hard-bitten, down at her heels, heavy drinking Julia has little going for her in her life, that is until a barely known widowed Latina neighbour entices her into kidnapping her only son from his rich gringo grandparent and taking him home to Mexico. The amatuerish attempt is somewhat bungled and Julia soon finds herself on the Mexican side of the border with the boy re-kidnapped by seriously nasty dudes. Now she must stop drinking, get her act together and play all sides against each other in a
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KANDAHAR (2001)
CertificationPG Our Rating
Nafas is an Afghan journalist living in Canada when she gets a message from her sister, still living in the place of their birth, pronouncing that come the next solar eclipse she will commit suicide. Nafas decides to make the perilous journey to her home land and find her sister, returning to the veil she had long left behind on her return to a country ravaged by civil war and still under the iron grip of the Taliban. Kandahar is a stunning piece of film making with some breathtaking images. Sho
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MONGOL THE RISE TO POWER OF GENGHIS KHAN (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
This lavishly photographed and costumed action-drama-epic sticks to what we know of Genghis's early years, although that's not much, telling the story of how a young tribal boy overcame many obstacles, including slavery, to become a legendary conqueror. The widescreen suits this 'big sky' country and there is something remarkably authentic about the yurts and the costumes. Chosen for marriage, at the age of nine, by a female child, Borte, while he thinks he's doing the chosing, she becomes one o
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MOUNTAIN PATROL (2004)
Certification15 Our Rating
The Mountain Patrol are a pitifully ill-equipped and underfunded volunteer force fighting a relentless, and seemingly hopeless, battle against the poachers of Tibet's increasingly rare antelopes. Based on a true story and shot in a pseudo-documentary style, "Mountain Patrol" is a visually ravishing and grippingly brutal tale of men surviving on what seems like the edge of the world. Set in the beautiful harsh landscapes of Tibet, the locations are stunning, and the local colour vivid.
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NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
Another superlative cinematic tour de force from the Coen brothers. A Vietnam Vet stumbles across the bloody remnants of a shoot out, pockets some booty and disappears pursued by Javier Bardem's relentless, dead eyed assassin. An ageing, disillusioned sheriff, the excellent Tommy Lee Jones, whose small town rural values have been eroded by the inexorable rise in brutal drug-crime related violence is the reluctant, but dogged, cop in pursuit of both hitman and thief. What follows is a battle of w
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