Charlie Kaufman is a screen writer struggling to adapt Susan Orlean's best selling novel "The Orchid Thief". As he tries to get to grips with his work Charlie must also deal with his twin brother/alter ego(?) Donald, a problem compounded by the gradual but seamless blending of reality and fiction. A surreal tale which defies the imagination of us mere mortals, Adaptation is an intelligent, crackingly performed, hilarious and perceptive flick, Spike Jonze's second feature lacks the "you what!!?" find out more...

Isabel is a happy go lucky slightly naive beautiful young woman, she's also a witch. Jack is a movie star who's fallen on hard times and now finds himself the lead in a remake of the TV comedy ‘Bewitched'. Spotting Isabel on the street one day Jack is convinced she'd make a perfect Samantha, little knowing her magical abilities. It's because of films like this that we keep on wrongly accusing the Americans of having no sense of irony. Why use such a conceit to plunder yet another classic TV seri find out more...

Bolt is a dog and not just any old dog, he's the star of an American TV series, though he's been conned, as the fantasy nature of his role has been hidden from him and Bolt is firm in his belief that he's a Super Hero with appropriate powers. So, when his human TV companion, Penny, is kidnapped by a TV villain, Bolt leaps through a window to the rescue, though the unfortunate result is being shipped from Hollywood to New York in a cardboard box! Shorn of his Super Hero powers Bolt needs help and find out more...

Domino Harvey is not your archetypal Hollywood socialite, to begin with she genuinely hates the world she was born into and despite, or perhaps in part because of, her mother's horror she signs herself up for the world of bounty hunting. As a ruthless rough and ready gun totting adventurer Domino finally, ironically, finds some kind of peace and with her colleagues a family that she genuinely feels she belongs with. Very loosely based on the real life escapades of Dominic Harvey and directed by find out more...

As Andy's celebrity rises, Maggie's life is in freefall. But is life at the top any better than it is at the bottom? Will Andy get respect as a serious actor and break free from the albatross that is the catchphrase hell of his sitcom? And will Maggie get any work at all? Another slice of the agonisingly painful, occasionally poignant comedy creation of Gervais and Merchant. find out more...

Self-control, courtesy, perseverance, integrity, and an indomitable spirit; these are the basic tenets preached by Master instructor Fred Simmons at the Concord Tae Kwon Do Studio, though when Fred's private life goes a bit pear-shaped it becomes clear he's rather more mouth than trousers, descending as he does into a state of blubbering self-pity. It is the opportunity to fight Chuck ‘The Truck' Wallace, which presents Fred with the chance to prove he's more than just a blustering, insecure, eg find out more...

The term 'free cinema' was coined by critic and filmmaker Lindsay Anderson in early 1956 when he, Karel Reisz, Tony Richardson and Lorenza Mazzetti showed a programme of their short films at the National Film Theatre. Although the name was intended only for that screening, it proved so successful that five more programmes were shown under the same banner between 1956 and 1959. find out more...

The term 'free cinema' was coined by critic and filmmaker Lindsay Anderson in early 1956 when he, Karel Reisz, Tony Richardson and Lorenza Mazzetti showed a programme of their short films at the National Film Theatre. Although the name was intended only for that screening, it proved so successful that five more programmes were shown under the same banner between 1956 and 1959. find out more...

Another in a string of interconnected characters/plot flicks that have been coming from the Art House genre, this one is actually quite good. To try and explain the plot would be futile and too revelatory but I will say that our cast of characters includes a committed gay boyfriend played wonderfully by Steve Coogan(!), a singer-seductress scene stealer part from Maggie Gyllenhaal and a very sweet, cash-for-brains father played by Tom Arnold. As well as Lisa Kudrow who serves a hub of sorts for find out more...

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