Harvey Pekar lives the life most of us dream of avoiding, a filing clerk by day, a man at odds with, and lost in, the world he inhabits the other sixteen hours. Harvey begins to write down his disgruntled observations and with the help of equally cantankerous illustrator, Harry Crumb, ‘American Splendor' is born. This movie of the man's life is an inspired mixture of animation, documentary and dramatisation, with Paul Giamatti finally getting a role worth his talent. Funny, sad, sharp and hip to find out more...

Japan is reaching a point of economic and social meltdown, school kids are revolting and teachers fear for their lives. In order to make an example the government introduces The Battle Royale Act - a problem class of teenagers are picked and sent to a secluded island where they are each given one weapon and must to fight to the death, with only one survivor permitted, and this year's choice, because one pupil knifed a teacher, is Class B from Zentsuji Middle School. Battle Royale had rave review find out more...

A bunch of academic investigators into the paranormal have their grant cut off and go into business busting up hauntings and other spook type manifestations. Just in the nick of time, as it happens, because it would seem that an ancient demon is planning his come back in the fridge of a New York flat. find out more...

It looks like a quiet Christmas but when those cuddly little Gremlins arrive chaos starts. Brilliant bits of black comedy as the partying creatures create total mayhem for the human population, whether with chainsaw, cars, guns, or any other suitable artefacts. Some scenes may scare young children.

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Brilliant black comedy with Cusack as a hitman who goes home for his high school reunion. While he's there he's got one last job to do, and a long lost love to win back, but first he's got to shake off a rival, "The Grocer" (Aykroyd), who's hellbent on recruiting him to an "assassin's union"! Superb. find out more...

A death obssessed teenager and a 79 year old woman who lives life to the full gang up together in one of the wittiest black comedies ever made. An inventive, enduring classic which was far ahead of its time. You mean you haven't seen it? find out more...

Excellent courtroom comedy starring Joe Pesci as an offbeat just-qualified lawyer, dispatched to the Deep South to defend his young cousin (and friend) from a bogus murder charge. Pesci is superb, as is Marisa Tomei, his nasal New York fiancee who's sassy performance peps up the whole thing and won her an Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. find out more...

Lee has a tendency towards self-harm, but she's a sweet natured if kooky lass, and upon her release from the asylum she decides to find gainful employment. Edward Gray is a lawyer and Lee's new employer, a man who gets through his secretaries at an alarming rate. Though not immediately apparent the two are made for each other, their repressed psychological, physical and sexual fetishes providing them with a common and mutually attractive bond. The Secretary is a disturbed, quirky and often very find out more...

A clever and frequently surreal British sitcom, following the often 'out there' existences of two under achieving twenty-somethings, Daisy and Tim. Spaced is a breath of fresh air, not perhaps the genius of "A League of Gentlemen", but then it's an altogether more sweet natured affair which relentlessly integrates scenarios plucked effortlessly from classic cinema to contemporary television. find out more...

Series 2 from the masters of the "what did you do today?" "Ehrrr, this and that…nothing really". Still as surreal and mundanely disfunctional, with a shed load of movie references and all of Daisy and Tim's barking friends and neighbours….genius I tell you, genius. find out more...