Elizabeth is a teacher; she drinks, she gets high, she hates her pupils and she can’t wait to marry her meal ticket and get out of her bogus day job. When a rich, handsome substitute teacher appears on the scene Liz sees her chance, but competing for his affections is an overly energetic and anal colleague, Amy. A pretty generic ‘I see the error of my ways’ romantic comedy but Diaz in particular makes the whole thing a lot of fun....who’d a guessed.
find out more...Peter Yates' Oscar-winner is a heart-warming coming-of-age story that has also taken its place as the greatest sports movie about cycling ever made. Four friends graduate from high-school and find themselves looking at an uncertain future in small-town America. Dave's passion is cycling and his dream is to be a world-class champion like the Italians he idolises. His passion for cycling takes on new meaning when he and his friends face a team from the local college in the town's annual bike ra find out more...
In Edwardian England where upper lips are always stiff and men from the Colonies are not entirely to be trusted, Fisk Senior has little time or affection for his frustrated duty bound son. But after the pair attend a lecture by a visiting swami about the transmigration of souls, Fisk Junior finds himself drawn to Dean Spanley's fantastical dinner party stories, and convincing Fisk Senior to entertain the experience may provide the two men with redemption from their loveless existence. 'Dean S find out more...
This knowing teen flick brings Hawthorn'e The Scarlet Letter to the Facebook generation. Stanley Tucci and Patricia Clarkson relish their roles as Californian-to-the-max parents while the man candy is provided by Gossip Girl's Penn Badgley. At times the film tries too hard to be audacious and falls flat, at others it shows flashes of brilliant comedy. A mixed bag of good intentions.
find out more..."The year is 1936. Orphaned Addie Loggins (Tatum O'Neal, in her film debut) is left in the care of unethical travelling Bible salesman Moses Pray (Ryan O'Neal, Tatum's dad), who may or may not be her father. En route to Addie's relatives, Moses learns that the 9-year-old is quite a handful: she smokes, cusses, and is almost as devious and manipulative as he is. They join forces as swindlers..." - Hal Erickson, Rovi.
Peter Bogdanovich's masterpiece, and shamefully overlooked by many! find out more...
Sergeant Gerry Boyle is a small-town Irish cop with a confrontational personality, a subversive sense of humour, a dying mother, a fondness for prostitutes, and absolutely no interest whatsoever in the international cocaine-smuggling ring that has brought FBI agent Wendell Everett to his door. However, despite the fact that Boyle’s only real interest in find out more...