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Certification18 Our Rating

The film version of Kurt Vonnegut Jr's famous anti-war sci-fi novel. Slipping back and forth along his own life line a suburban optometrist experiences the fire bombing of Dresden and captivity on the planet Trafalmardore. A powerful and seemingly unfilmable book that turned out to be a great movie. find out more...

Certification15 Our Rating

A film by Tim Burton...that name alone should be incentive enough to watch this, but to all you doubters let me tell you a little story. Are you sitting comfortably? Then I shall begin. 'Once upon a time'......Based on the short classic by Washington Irving, set in 1799, the tale is of an axe-wielding headless horseman who careers through the sinister moonlit night gruesomely dispatching various members of the small community of Sleepy Hollow. A young, eccentric, policeman, Ichabod Crane (Depp) find out more...

CertificationPG Our Rating

Hurt is an emotionally withdrawn author of travel guides for businessmen who would rather be at home, whose stale marriage provides no relief. During a trial seperation he meets a lively dog-trainer who wants to teach him new tricks, and show him the fullness of life. Compelling and often funny. find out more...

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A fine traditional adventure yarn based on a Rudyard Kipling tale and set on the wild North West Frontier of the British Raj. Two penniless adventurers, mistaken for Gods, decide to carve themselves out a kingdom in a remote region of the Himalayas, but when one decides to rule, rather than thieve the jewels, the trouble starts. A meditation on power?

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THE ROAD (2009)

Certification15 Our Rating

A stunningly shot story of a father and son trudging through a desolate and dangerous wasteland in search of unlikely salvation after an unnamed ecological disaster. This bleak movie is adapted from the Pulitzer award winning novel by Cormac McCarthy and was largely filmed in the post-industrial wastelands of Pennsylvania. find out more...

Certification15 Our Rating

They are elegant, arrogant and assured; they dine, shoot pheasants, gossip and flirt, and they observe the rigorous etiquette expected of them. However it's 1913 and they are the last of the Edwardians, their society is collapsing and their lives about to be devasted by the coming slaughter.

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The Graham Greene story of black-marketeer Harry Lime, who "dies" and then apparently comes back to life. A totally compelling thriller, set against a backdrop of shattered post-war Vienna and haunted by an evocative zither score. find out more...

Certification15 Our Rating

Admirably sumptuous film version of Gunter Grass's epic surreal novel. Depicting German history through the eyes of three year old Oskar who decides, through sheer will-power, never to grow up. Bizarre, amusing and frequently grotesque this is deservedly acclaimed as a milestone in modern cinema. find out more...

Certification15 Our Rating

A superb tragi-comedy based on the book by John Irving. Garp, the product of an extraordinary sexual liason between his liberated mother and a dying comatose soldier, is a family man who sees himself as a "serious" writer, but his mother writes a feminist manifesto, at an opportune time, and finds herself as a magnet for all manner of distressed women. A truly bizarre comedy that always carries the threat of tragedy in the background, when do you stop laughing and start to recoil in horror? find out more...


Certification15 Our Rating

George Smiley, a recently retired MI6 agent, struggles to adjust to life outside the secret service. However, when a disgraced agent reappears with information concerning a mole, Smiley is drawn back into the murky field of espionage. Tasked with investi find out more...