A landmark in the history of the cinema; it was ranked Number 1 in the American Film Institute's 100 greatest films of all time in two polls (1998 and 2007) of more than 1,500 film industry movers and shakers and again by UK directors in a BFI poll. "Citizen Kane" narrates the rise and fall of a newspaper tycoon driven by a childhood obssession and is loosely based round the life of William Randolph Hurst, who tried to have it banned, but incorporates elements from the lives of other fat cats il
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GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK (2005)
CertificationPG Our Rating
Goodnight And Good Luck takes place during the early days of broadcast journalism in 1950s America, chronicling the real-life conflict between television newsman Edward R Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy, head of the House Un-American Activities Committee. Murrow, his news team and, indeed, CBS itself made a defiant and impassioned stand against McCarthy's increasingly delusional, corrupt and fear-fueled rants and this, George Clooney's second turn in the director's chair, is a beautifully suc
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IN THE LOOP (2009)
Certification15 Our Rating
For those of you not in the know this is a brilliant satire on a bunch of totally cynical New Labour twats, incompetent elected officials and a bunch of muddling bureaucrats. Capaldi is superb, as the PM's foul mouthed attack dog enforcer (Alistair Campbell), as our politicians conspire with both hawks and doves in Washington in the fumbling build-up to a major war to grab oil in the Middle East.
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KING'S GAME (2004)
Certification12 Our Rating
Ulrik Torp is assigned as a parliamentary reporter to the Danish government, but what begins as a relatively uninspiring job swiftly escalates into a game of life threatening political skulduggery as Ulrik uncovers a conspiracy that reaches to the very top of the controlling party. King's Game is a sharp and original political thriller and winner of no less than eight Danish Academy awards, including best film and best director. The DVD extras contains some interesting information on which real
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MANUFACTURING DISSENT: UNCOVERING MICHAEL MOORE (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
This is a very good deconstruction of the political polemicist Michael Moore, a man who's made a lot of money out of feeding liberals entertainment and whose cupboard rattles with skeletons. The film goes into a number of details of gross inaccuracies, and betrayals of the people he pertains to support, in order to further his career. In particular we learn about lies told in 'Roger and Me', eg about the supposed apathy of the locals and about being unable to talk to Roger. We hear about the len
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STATE OF PLAY: SERIES 1, DISC 2 (BBC) (2003)
Certification15 Our Rating
The story continues in this gripping conspiracy thriller.
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THANK YOU FOR SMOKING (2005)
Certification15 Our Rating
Nick Naylor is a tobacco lobbyist and, damn, he's good at his job, no sleepless nights for old Nicky boy, he takes an idea, spins it until it's close to vomiting, and then runs with the bastardised concept like the devil himself wants a piece of his arse. The pressure however is beginning to mount, not from the anti-tobacco lobbyists, not from the competition and not from his bosses (Nick has a mighty ego), but from the naïve yet unavoidably honest enquires of his young son. Thank You For Smokin
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THE DEVIL CAME ON HORSEBACK (2007)
CertificationE Our Rating
The Devil Came On Horseback exposes the tragedy taking place in Darfur using the exclusive photographs and first hand testimony of former US Marine Captain Brian Steidle. His is an emotionally charged journey into the heart of Sudan, where an Arab run government is systematically executing a plan to rid the province of its black African citizens. As an official military observer, Steidle had access to parts of the country that no journalist could penetrate. Ultimately frustrated by the inaction
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THE PARALLAX VIEW (1974)
Certification15 Our Rating
An investigative journalist finds himself in a bizarre nightmare as he tries to find out if there is any pattern behind the series of deaths of witnesses to the assassination of a US Senator. The clues he follows lead to the Parallax Corporation, a business that our man (Beatty) believes is secretly recruiting sociopathic types and training them as assassins. He enrols in their therapy programme......... A very smart conspiracy thriller with numerous 'parallels' to the JFK assassination. Top no
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