1960s; young scouser Jude crosses the Atlantic and meets upper class Lucy in this musical tale of two star-crossed lovers set against the raging waters of the volatile 60s counterculture movement; race riots, Vietnam, civil rights, protest, music, drugs, dance, art, hippies and psychedelia. Over 30 Beatles songs are woven into the plot together with visual allusions to their films and, with cameos from Bono and Eddie Izzard, this weird, loud and colourful montage will either have you breaking ou find out more...

A chilling dramatisation of a meeting between 15 top ranking Nazi officials, organised and led by Reinhard Heydrich, deputy head of the SS, and assisted by Adolf Eichmann in the winter of 1942. The reason for their coming together? To discuss and sanction the systematic annihilation of all Jews living within the confines of the Third Reich's recently acquired Lebensraum.

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The object of this massive tribute died as he had always lived, without wealth, without property, without official title or office. Mahatma Gandhi was not the commander of armies, nor the ruler of vast lands, he could not boast any scientific achievement or artistic gift, yet men, governments, dignitaries from all over the world, have joined hands today to pay homage to the little brown man in the loin cloth who led his country to freedom. This quote is from his funeral, one of the greatest s find out more...

Roy Miller is an American soldier assigned to find WMD in post-invasion Iraq. Increasingly aware that the sites that they're being sent to search are empty and could never have been used as storage dumps Miller begins to query the intelligence sources being used, a procedure that throws him into a power struggle between the Pentagon and the CIA over turf and policy. Miller rejects all the limits of his rank in his determination to uncover the truth in this conspiracy action movie that gives a le find out more...

For those of you not in the know this is a brilliant satire on a bunch of totally cynical New Labour twats, incompetent elected officials and a bunch of muddling bureaucrats. Capaldi is superb, as the PM's foul mouthed attack dog enforcer (Alistair Campbell), as our politicians conspire with both hawks and doves in Washington in the fumbling build-up to a major war to grab oil in the Middle East. find out more...

Mohammad is a Palestinian teacher and intellectual whose house is commandeered by an Israeli army platoon, him and his family being confined to the ground floor and, at night, the living room. His act of resistance is to stay and continually rebuild his greenhouse as the Israelis smash it. His wife wants to leave and his children all react in different ways, one spies on the soldiers, one wants to kill them, one is traumatised...... The Israelis aren't stereotypically cast either, they also have find out more...

After the unexpected death of the vice president of the USA, Senator Laine Hanson is nominated by the president to take his place, but her path to this position is about to be seriously hampered by a powerful enemy, Senator Sheldon Runyon, who will go to any lengths to prevent such a left of centre politician becoming the second most powerful person in the country . As the accusations fly and the skeletons in the closet are aired Hanson's chances are looking slimmer and slimmer. The Contender is find out more...

A film dominated by one performance, Forest Whitaker's turn as the infamous dictator Idi Amin. When young Scotsman Nicholas Garrigan becomes his personal physician few of us doubt that it will inevitably end in tears, but Amin, as is so often the way with monsters, has considerable charm to go with his paranoid genocidal tendencies and the naïve Garrigan is seduced. However Garrigan's role is ambiguous; is he just dumb or is he willingly looking the other way? The film also reverses the typical find out more...

The king of spin, aka Malcolm Tucker, is on the brink of losing it. With the PM away Malcolm finds himself increasingly out of the loop, and when rumblings that his boss may finally be stepping down a desperate, expletive filled battle of wills begins between within the ranks of the spin men. Another slice of satirical genius from Mr Ianucci. find out more...

Let battle commence... the PM officially confirms he's standing down and in the panicked rush for a new candidate Malcolm looks like he's found himself on the wrong side of the fence. In this seesawing climate even Malcolm's morally void, conniving aggression may not be enough to blag him out of imminent unemployment. Damn fine stuff. find out more...