Set during the LA riots Eldon Perry is a cop determined to see the law respected, unfortunately his methods reach well beyond the law he has sworn to uphold and with the arrival of a new chief of police Eldon's days are increasingly numbered. Dark Days is a gritty drama thriller and though enjoyable it fails in anyway to set the genre alight. find out more...

An elite battalion of police officers, known as BOPE, are pretty much the only thing that the drug dealers living in the favelas of Rio De Janerio fear - aside from each other. But the man who commands them wants out; the unrelenting brutality of his job is beginning to fracture both his mind and family life. The Captain has one goal: to find a worthy replacement, untainted by the corruption that riddles his fellow colleagues, and the potential shows itself in the form of two very different but find out more...

LAPD police officers Brian Taylor and Mike Zavala are bonded by friendship and a crusade to clean up the violent streets of South Central, Los Angeles. Their mission is to serve and protect, their objective is to survive until the end of watch, that last moment in an officer’s patrol when he’s finally off duty. But when a routine traffic enquiry re find out more...

This film, which sparked off the reactionary Rambo series, is a gem. Stallone plays a skilled jungle fighter, who finds himself a social outcast on his return from Vietnam, and makes war with the authoritarian uniformed forces whom he once represented. Both cool on action and politically PC, a must watch for those who think the Rambo character was purely a demented racist imperialist with a ridiculously accurate gun. find out more...

A tour de force with a stellar cast, events unfold over the period of just one day as a series of apparently random characters, from a game show host too an ex-boy genius, weave into each others lives through chance, circumstance and even divine intervention. 'Magnolia' is a drama of the highest order with both comic and very dark touches, some fine performances and an absorbingly intricate story line. find out more...

A superb modern thriller in the ultra-hardboiled Jim Thompson mould, in which a trio of criminals, wanted for a brutally murderous drugs heist, converge on a small, quiet Arkansas township where the local cop, treated with contempt by the LA officers in charge of the case, looks forward to a High Noon-style showdown. The asides on racial and sexual inequality are made subtly and succinctly; the performances and pacing are nigh perfect; the violence is explicit, disturbing but never gratuitous; a find out more...

Seth and Evan are best friends; in fact the closeness of their relationship is beginning to mess with their hormonal urges. Desperate to pop their cherry before they leave for college the two lads, along with their super nerdy mate ‘McLovin' and his fake I.D, decide the only way forward is to blag themselves into an end of year party by supplying the booze. Super bad is one of the best of the ‘American Pie'..esque comedies to come a long for quite some time; gross but good hearted, farcical but find out more...

Dr Alex Beck is a man still tortured by his past, eight years ago his beloved wife was brutally murdered and, worryingly short on evidence, the police attempted, but failed, to place the responsibility for her death at his door. When Alex receives a mysterious e-mail attachment showing what looks to be his long dead wife standing outside a tube-station his life once again spirals out of control, only this time he's not prepared for his grief to prevent him from attempting to uncover the truth ho find out more...

NYPD Detectives Danson (Johnson) and Highsmith (Jackson) are the baddest and most beloved cops in New York City, but two desks over and one back, sit Detectives Gamble (Ferrell) and Hoitz (Wahlberg); they're not heroes - they're 'The Other Guys'. But every cop has his day and soon Gamble and Hoitz stumble into a seemingly innocuous case no other detective wants to touch, but could potentially make their careers.
Early on in the film the plot becomes superfluous, but that's also when the f find out more...

Written by the always controversial Quentin Tarantino, this is romance with a big difference. Teenage hooker Alabama marries shy guy Clarence and pretty soon the happy couple are on the run from just about everyone. Fast, brutal in places, with a heavy dose of dark humour. Not to be missed. find out more...