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CertificationU Our Rating

As a young pilot returns home in May 1945, a relationship is formed as he desperately contacts a radio operator before bailing out of the sky. He lives, evading his celestial escort, meets the aforementioned operator and falls in love. But he must face a heavenly court to decide if he should live or die. Amazing.

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MCLIBEL (2005)

CertificationE Our Rating

When THE fast food chain issued a libel action against activists Helen Steel and Dave Morris in 1990, demanding an apology for allegations they had made in a leaflet, the corporate giant didn't expect the pair to not only refuse to apologise, but to actually invite McBully to bring it on. Absolutely nobody expected it to take 15 years and a victory for the pair at the European Court of Human Rights for the case to come to an end. Here the whole story is told with the requisite amount of humour find out more...

Certification15 Our Rating

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...

Certification15 Our Rating

The follow-up to the astounding ‘Paradise Lost’. More and more, especially forensic, evidence comes to light that the non-existent case against the 3 is just that. Much of the film focuses on the prime alternative suspect, the step-father of one of the murdered children, a dangerously barking Church-going redneck, but the rightwing local state bureaucracy don't want to know, they've already got their man (sorry children). Damien, Jason and Jessie have matured visibly in prison, with Damien perha find out more...

Certification15 Our Rating

TIn 1993 the naked and mutilated bodies of three 8-year-old boys where found in a shallow creek near the sleepy redneck Arkansas town of Robin Hood Hills. The ensuing police investigation soon focused on three local teens who dressed in black, had vaguely non-Christian beliefs and enjoyed heavy metal music. A rushed investigation and the pitiful court case that followed were all filmed with unprecedented access by a HBO documentary crew who came to believe that the three suspects were victims of find out more...

Certification18 Our Rating

Gere is a ruthless attorney who is eager to defend an altar boy accused of murdering the bishop, if only for the inevitable publicity. But the prosecutor is his ex-girl and the case is the tip of the iceberg in a world of unbelieveable corruption that tests all his skills. Will he win at any cost? find out more...

Certification15 Our Rating

It's the summer of 1949 and small town barber Ed Crane feels life has past him by. His wife's infidelity would seem to compound this feeling, but Ed sees an opportunity for blackmail, and a misguided attempt to reverse his fortunes; But a dubious plan inevitably sucks Ed into a world far darker and more bereft than the one he sought to escape. The Man Who Wasn't There is yet another sublime piece of filmmaking from the Coen brothers (who seem to be working their way through every genre of cinema find out more...

CertificationPG Our Rating

A lawyer raising his children alone in the midst of racial hatred, injustice and hypocracy is the only man prepared to defend a young black man accused of rape by a white trash family. A superb study of racism in Americas deep South boasting a wonderful script, photography and acting in an adaptation worthy of the book; A total classic. find out more...