Like wow, lets drop some acid (older members may remember what that was) and watch the pyschedelic sequence. To boldly go were no man has..... whoops wrong movie.
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BADLANDS (1974)
Certification18 Our Rating
He was 25-years-old, combed his hair like James Dean. She took music lessons and could twirl a baton, she was 15. For a while they lived together in a tree house then in 1959, she watched while he killed a lot of people. A tale of two dumb kids going nowhere who achieved infamy in the US Midwest. The original to films like Natural Born Killers and True Romance. Sheen, Spacek and Malick debut in this impressive cult classic Brilliant - watch it!
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BOMBON EL PERRO (2004)
Certification15 Our Rating
Juan Villegas has the luck of the luckless, now living in his daughter's tiny flat with her new family and unemployed, his attempts to sell hand carved knife handles are not going as well as he would have hoped. After an act of kindness on the roadside Juan is given a pedigree dog and so begins his unlikely journey towards a life as exhibitor and breeder, with the help of his experienced, if slightly wayward new friend, Walter. Bombon El Perro is a beautifully observed tale, but its very simplic
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BONNIE AND CLYDE (1967)
Certification15 Our Rating
An all time classic 60s movie glamourising the real life story of the Barrow gang who terrorised the American South in the early 30s. 'Reclaiming the American gangster movie, after it had been stolen by the Nouvelle Vague, Penn's film was so successful (and so imitated) that it inevitably met with some grudging devaluation. But it's still great, half comic fairytale, half brutal fact, it reflects the essential ambiguity of its heroes by treading a no man's land suspended between reality and fant
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CENTRAL STATION (1998)
Certification15 Our Rating
Dora is a retired schoolteacher turned conwoman, scratching a living at Rio's swarming railway station by writing never to be posted letters for illiterate passengers. When one of her customers dies, the woman's young son, Josue, is left stranded alone in the big city. Dora takes pity on the child and reluctantly joins him on a cross-country search for his father. A critically acclaimed road movie in the vein of Paris Texas.
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DETOUR (1945)
CertificationU Our Rating
Perhaps THE classic film noir, made in a studio in 6 days on a minimal budget. Fatalistic narrator Neal is hitching west to catch up with his girlfriend when his lift drops dead on him. Savage is superb as the femme fatale who blackmails him into a scam. A must for any student or lover of film noir.
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EASY RIDER (1969)
Certification18 Our Rating
A couple of dudes sell some drugs, buy a couple of groovy looking choppers and set off on a road trip, en route meeting segments of the American counter-culture, taking a lot of drugs themselves and using far out language.
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FIVE EASY PIECES (1970)
Certification15 Our Rating
Jack Nicholson is astonishing as the drifter trying to escape from his well-to-do background. He has created a new life of drinking, manual labour and womanising, but is called back to his father's deathbed, where a chance meeting means making a tough choice. Brilliantly moody and evocative drama.
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IN THIS WORLD (2002)
Certification15 Our Rating
We follow young Jamal on the long dangerous land journey from a refugee camp on the Pakistan Afghanistan border thru' Iran, Turkey, Italy and France to the new Mecca; London. Minimalist in dialogue and very naturalistic. Superb.
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KANDAHAR (2001)
CertificationPG Our Rating
Nafas is an Afghan journalist living in Canada when she gets a message from her sister, still living in the place of their birth, pronouncing that come the next solar eclipse she will commit suicide. Nafas decides to make the perilous journey to her home land and find her sister, returning to the veil she had long left behind on her return to a country ravaged by civil war and still under the iron grip of the Taliban. Kandahar is a stunning piece of film making with some breathtaking images. Sho
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