Adapted from the classic, absurdist, anti-war novel by Joseph Heller. "Catch-22" is the story of Yossarian, a pilot who trys to opt out of flying bombing missions by being declared insane, the catch being that anyone trying to avoid bombing missions by being insane must be sane. This dark classic catches much of the flavour of the book, the insanity, the corruption and the absurdity of war. Think MASH, but non-linear - flawed but awesome. find out more...

At the peak of her international career, Maria Enders is asked to perform in a revival of the play that made her famous twenty years ago. But back then she played the role of Sigrid, an alluring young girl who disarms and eventually drives her boss Helena to suicide. Now she is being asked to step into the other role, that of the older Helena. She departs with her assistant to rehearse in Sils Maria; a remote region of the Alps. A young Hollywood starlet with a penchant for scandal is to take find out more...

Bobby Sands was the IRA member who led the 1981 Long Kesh hunger strike as part of a campaign to achieve the status of political prisoners and not that of criminals. The first section of film deals with daily prison life, the 'dirty' protest and the violence, the second is a long discussion on the meaning of life with a sympathetic priest and the third depicts the last weeks and death of a man voluntarily dying of starvation. find out more...

A small girl dies of a genetically inherited brain condition and an ageing pervert is killed in a squalid basement flat in Reykjavik, the latter a case to which dogged detective Erlendu is assigned. His investigation, at times, takes him back to crimes thirty years in the past and into a sordid Icelandic underbelly of deprived urban estates, impoverished rural communities, marital infidelity and drug addiction. An atmospheric, genuinely different, murder investigation/puzzle with some truly left find out more...

A young American soldier is wounded by a shell in WWI, losing his arms, legs and eyes as well as his ability to hear, speak or smell. Lying in hospital he is barely able to distinguish if he is awake or dreaming and he relives his story in strange dreams and memories. One day Joe finds a way to communicate with the doctors ... find out more...

Les Franken defines ‘non-descript', everything about him is without note, but when he takes part in a clinical trial for a new drug called ‘Special' Les starts to notice super human gifts developing and as an avid reader of comic books decides to re-model himself as a fearless indestructible defender of justice. At times bleakly witty 'Special' is at heart a tale driven by delusion, the emotional collapse of a man who like many of us wishes to be something more than he is. A flawed tale that los find out more...

Minor theatre director Caden finds his life unravelling; suffering an undiagnosed complaint that involves loss of control of his physical functions and alone since his wife ditched him and took their daughter to go live in Berlin. Meanwhile an artistic grant allows him to direct, in a vast warehouse, an ever-expanding play, which reflects his own life and his neuroses, as the reality around him slowly disintegrates. find out more...

Adrien Brody plays an amnesiac Gulf War veteran, who's either had part of his brain blown away, is a restless spirit or an angel, take it your own way, sentenced to life in a mental institution for a brutal killing he may, or may not, have done. There he is subjected to barbaric drug and sensory deprivation treatment during which he finds himself in 2007 with a girl, Keira Knightley, he met once in the past, a future, moreover, in which he discovers he has been dead for 14 years. How did he die? find out more...

First part of a five part cult, Danish TV series from "Europa/Breaking The Waves" director Lars Von Trier. A weird cross between ER and Twin Peaks follows the odd assortment of characters who inhabit and/or work in a Copenhagen hospital. All shot with a hand held camera. Very sureal, very good! Continues on 6639... find out more...

Episodes 3, 4 and 5 of the spooky Danish TV serial reviewed on movie no. 6638. find out more...