A strange, beautiful film. We watch mother and son as they go about their peculiar daily routine, and we see a dead child in the ocean. It's unnerving and, somehow, everything seems eerily sexual, too. Then we are invited to go underwater where we get a closer look at the strange story science and earth have to tell. There are only mothers and sons in this coastal town. There is routine and control - but who is in control and what happens if someone starts to ask que find out more...

A young rich brat is being fast-tracked into being a corporate lawyer by his repressive father, but along comes a leprechaun(!!!!), who takes him out on the road to show him a few parables. Stop-offs on Route 60 include a town where the population is all addicted to a legal drug and another where every citizen is a lawyer spending their days suing each other and imprisoning unwary travellers on trumped-up charges. A modern day fairy tale. find out more...

What can I say? The Fellowship of the Ring is all right if you like that kind of Sword and Sorcery thing? Small, cute whee people being chased hither and thither by all kinds of monstrous beasties. Acts of courage and heroism that would have comic book superheroes running for the hills (not that they'd be safe there....oh no!). Peter Jackson's film adaptation of Tolkien's epic trilogy of good versus evil in a fantastical world long past is just about as spot on as you can imagine it was possible find out more...

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Bilbo Baggins leaves the cosy comfort of Hobbitsville for an epic adventure to return the kingdom of Erebor to the Dwarfs. It takes a bit of time to get going, but once everyone’s been introduced, Peter Jackson’s shameless three part adaptation of a 300 page book oozes with high end CGI bang and dazzle. Perfect big budget fluff.
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Jeliza-Rose has lived an unusual life and, though still only a young girl, her world doesn't look like getting saner any time soon. Jeliza's junkie mother has recently overdosed and, with her passing, dad, a rock and roll musician well past his hey day, has become her main ‘carer'. Jeliza has descended into a world of fantasy, a place where squirrels can talk and bodyless dolls are the closest one gets to true friends. 'Tideland' is both dark and witty, a surrealist tale brought to life by the m find out more...

When life becomes too much Zia cuts his wrists and begins his journey into purgatory, a place not dissimilar to the one he's left, but where nobody smiles, the music sucks and there's little colour. Here he wastes death hanging around in bars until he hears his girlfriend is around and looking for him, so, with the help of some quirky new friends; a Russian guitarist, a hitch-hiking girl, who's there by accident, a possible angel in disguise and others, Zia sets about getting his ‘life' back tog find out more...