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Certification15 Our Rating

A 35-year old woman with an unsatisfying marriage decides to up and move when her husband is killed. On the road, with 12 year-old son and whilst pursuing her childhood ambition to be a singer, she copes with life's problems and is forced to reassess her relationships with men and what she wants from them. One of the great movies of the 70s. find out more...

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A successful actress employs a woman in exchange for her flattery, only to find her employee is scheming her way to the top at her own expense. An intelligent, bitchy script complements the fine acting, making this one of Time Out's top 100 films of all time. Won Best Picture at 1950 Academy Awards.

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Certification12 Our Rating

Jess is a Sikh teenager with a passion for football, something that her traditionalist parents, who want her to grow up as a nice Asian girl with an arranged marriage and cooking Aloo Gobi, are horrified by. After making friends with white girl Jules she is introduced to the local womens' team, for whom she must play without her parents' knowiledge, and where she develops a forbidden love interest with the coach. Poor girl, her parents find out everything she does, and imagine worse. A witty find out more...


Certification15 Our Rating

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...


Certification15 Our Rating

Should Gulf War pilot Karen Walden become the first woman to receive the posthumous Congressional Medal of Honour? Colonel Nathan Serling, a deeply troubled man, must decide. As the many different versions of events emerge, he realises that the truth is not always black and white. A powerful tale of loyalty and honour under fire. Ryan takes a different turn as a conflicted and commanding character in this tense drama. find out more...

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Wisteria Lane is a pretty, affluent cul-de-sac nestled away in a corner of American suburbia. Quietly innocuous you would think, but behind these closed doors and twitching curtains lies a neighbourhood seething with insecurities, adultery, lust, loathing, bigotry and even murder... welcome to the world of the 'Desperate Housewives'. Sharply scripted, witty, well cast and deliciously implausible this hugely successful series is insidiously addictive... you have been warned. find out more...

Certification15 Our Rating

Like a self-induced version of ‘Stepford Wives' the series continues its increasingly surreal progress (I mean it's narrated by a dead woman for god's sake!), but the characters are so well drawn and the story lines so darkly witty that to watch it is to become addicted… regardless of your gender. find out more...

Certification12 Our Rating

A lovingly created homage to the melodramas of the 1950s sees Frank and Cathy Whitaker's picture perfect marriage masking a relationship based on lies. A blossoming friendship with the black gardener and a husband whose fallen in love with another man leave Cathy shunned by her friends and neighbours, her outwardly idylic world finally revealed for the sham that it is. Far from Heaven looks stunning, the recreation of the period nothing short of immaculate, but I have never been a fan of 1950s m find out more...
FOXES (1979)

Certification15 Our Rating

Four young girls on the cusp of womanhood, begin to make the uncomfortable and confrontational transition from childhood to adulthood on the harsher side of the Los Angeles tracks. A great cast deal with genuine adolescent issues, and while it now looks slightly dated it's still an enjoyable and absorbing movie. find out more...
FREEWAY (1996)

Certification18 Our Rating

A screwed-up runaway teenage girl accepts a lift from a Mr Nice Guy, but soon realises he's a notorious serial killer. Having left him for dead she is soon arrested and facing a lifetime in prison, escapes, only to meet the killer again. A high quality, brutally comic, thriller with attitude. Very dark and very good.

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